449. Changing the Game - Martin Hunt

Jeremy sits down with Martin Hunt, founder of Garage, to unpack one of the most pressing challenges facing the modern fire service: how departments buy, sell, and preserve life-saving assets.

Martin shares the origin story of Garage; a firefighter-built marketplace designed to connect fire departments across the country and keep apparatus and equipment in service, not scrapped. What started as firsthand frustration with outdated, inefficient surplus processes has grown into a national platform where departments can buy and sell everything from adapters to ladder trucks with transparency, trust, and efficiency.

This conversation goes far beyond technology. Martin and Jeremy discuss community, stewardship, and legacy, and how keeping apparatus in service instead of sending it to scrap yards directly benefits firefighters and the communities they protect. From appraisal tools and financing options to freight coordination and maintenance transparency, Garage removes the friction and guesswork that have plagued the used apparatus process for generations.

At its core, this episode is about firefighters helping firefighters, preserving the history and value of fire service equipment, and creating solutions that allow departments of every size to operate smarter and stronger in a challenging environment.

Innovating the process, Garage has changed the game. They have reinvented the process and their closely protected mission has far exceeded expectations of their growing client list. For more information and to see firsthand how Garage has made an impact, check out www.shopgarage.com.