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And yet no proof this scheme works. 
Dumb drivers will always be dumb drivers. What next we get rid of reflective striping because it is too busy and distracts the drivers? I mean we have done so with lights and sirens.
It isn't the apparatus it is the other drivers. If we could get LEO and Fire Rescue to get along we would shut down the roads long in advance of the emergency. This is what they do "overseas".
I am not saying "lime is prime" but why do we use this on our stripes, vests, cones, signs but not our apparatus?
Jeff
Location: Northwest PA
How about Euro-Stripes and LIME?
You are a bad man Steve....
...I am not saying "lime is prime" but why do we use this on our stripes, vests, cones, signs but not our apparatus?
Jeff
A long disputed issue the color lime. I know a chief of a department that was adamant that Slime Green was a color that could not be missed. His own department members wanted red back.
So it was arranged for him to meet a command officer at a specific corner of a busy 8 lane intersection. Once there the command officer engaged the Chief in a conversation. During that time it was pre-arranged for three of the departments Slime Green engines to pass through this intersection along with one traditional red engine.
The Chief noted the passing of the red engine during the "conversation" with the command officer. Later when questioned if he had also seen the three Slime Green engines he stated none had gone by. At that point the command officer told him about their little test and then called all four engines to their location to prove what they had done.
The Chief saw the light. Their engines are now red. Color means little. As people adjust to such changes and get comfortable with them they then become complacent. The Lime no longer stands out. The key, as studies have shown, is to break up the color pattern. Thus the contrasting stripes and two tone color schemes as well as the contrasting chevrons on the back of some ambulances and some fire apparatus. The greatest variable and effect on the drivers will be and still is the quality of the lights (and audio devices) used to warn them. The LED lights are showing promise there as well.
I've been in accidents here, and it does not make a bit of difference if emergency lights are flashing, you have quarter mile of cones up-road of your unit, or if you are parked a good ten feet off the pavement. They'll still hit you.
Maybe if we place the offending drivers in stocks (Olde' English type) along side of road for 24 hours, with a sign that these dumb A's struck an Emergency Vehicle, only then we might see some attention paid to driving by these dunces.
But I doubt it. 
Chuck! LMAO! Put 'em in stocks along the roadside!
Great Idea - now why didn't I think of that?
Location: So. Fla
Chuck...you made my day ....Only Stocks??...what about a crate of rotten tomatoes for the general publics' use as they see fit on those in the stocks.....
I've been in accidents here, and it does not make a bit of difference if emergency lights are flashing, you have quarter mile of cones up-road of your unit, or if you are parked a good ten feet off the pavement. They'll still hit you...
Boy I have to agree with you there!! To heck with cones, they only attract people who then drive over them. It's while they drive over them and are oggling the "strange looking orange things" that they run into you... Lets get some reinforced concrete barriers up... Let 'em slam into those a few times and it won't happen again... Uh.. At least not til the next idiot comes along..
Touche'
