Equipment and Vehicles

[spenac]

old news in the UK ...

pull out ramps were in vogue aobut 10 years ago it;s all powered wedge folders or tailifts nows - priarily becasue a pull out ramp has manual handling operations risks in in self 9 bending, twisting, ulling it out hile bent over and walking backwards ..._

I really don't know why USA ambulances will not do like some of those that some of you on the other side of the pond sent pics of on post http://www.emtcity.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7746

But I guess so with many people willing to work for free or on the cheap services will never spent money for anything that can protect workers.

[Chief1C]

I think it has more to do with the seemingly greedy EMS Suppliers and Manufacturers. Compare catalogs, even new and old. Over a ten year span in our supply catalog bin, prices on commonly used items went up in Moore, Dyna-Med, EMS-A, Life-Assist, Bound Tree. It wasn't until more recently that we began buying "Economy by the case", i.e. Dukal, etc.