India, April 24 -- Global professional services company Vee Technologies' engineering business, which forayed into the challenging area of designing fire trucks for the US market a decade ago, has rolled out the design of its 3,000th fire truck this month.

The complexity of designing US fire trucks increases manifold because each US state has a unique fire code, owing to the variety of materials used in the construction of townhouses, residential and commercial complexes-many of them housed in skyscrapers.

The design process must address varying height requirements and operational tasks, including transporting firefighters to fire sites-often several hundred feet high-pumping water or fire-suppressant materials and rescuing those trappe...