Idiots on the road

[akflightmedic]

For the most part yes. The laws/ordinances may vary state by state, city by city and more importantly service by service.

I have used side flood lights while moving but it was only to light up the dark side of a highway while looking for an MVC or pt on the side of the road. If you are lighting them up just to be malicious, that is just wrong. It is an abuse of our equipment and only lessens our respectability in the public's eye.

I admit, I once had the same attitude and I see it all the time now in newbies and even some of the old farts. For some reason, when we climb behind the wheel of an amulance, we think we are impervious to accidents and we think we own the road. We do not by any means have either of these. I have couseled many partners who lay on the horn excessively, flash llights, tailgate, or just make hand signals, yell at the person, or my all time pet peeve...YELL on the PA....all these behaviors make us look like idiots. Doing any of these never gets us to a call faster, it only diminishes our image and actually make us more susceptible to an accident as our minds are not where they should be.

The best way to deter a tailgater is to let off the gas, slow a little and allow them to pass.

[8151]

Tailgaighters need to be run off the road! Find a way to make them pull over then take a baseball bat to their dome. Or kick em in the ball sack.

Kidding, some good advice has been posted. :thumbup:

[CrazyNCute02]

Tailgaighters need to be run off the road! Find a way to make them pull over then take a baseball bat to their dome. Or kick em in the ball sack.

Kidding, some good advice has been posted. :thumbup:

Oh, but how much do we wish we could sometimes!!!

BTW, for peoples in Jersey, if you really wanna get back at someone that is acting like a jerk on the road, in my post b4 I mentioned the aggressive driver hotline. If you call it, they will either put you through to the nearest state police station (if you're on a highway) or to the local PD. I've called it numerous times when someone was speedin' through traffic cuttin' everyone off or when someone was tailgating me like crazy. It's fun to watch the person get pulled over. The number is #77. I'm sure in other states they may have something similar. Have fun!

[stretcher monkey]

We have loads of trouble with tailgaters, usually taxi drivers, so when I spot one in my mirror I just slow down- it annoys the h£ll out of them.

It's worse when they sit under your rear bumper when you are driving on blues and two's and they use it to get through the traffic which has moved out of your way. Recently had a car following about 2ft off my rear bumper right through the middle of the city, going well over the speed limit, through red traffic lights etc and it was really starting to p*ss me off. Then a second car joined in and I was starting to worry about a high speed convoy developing when a second siren started blaring. I looked in the mirror and figured out that the second siren was coming from the car which had just joined the mini convoy and he then put on his strobes- it was an unmarked traffic police car and it pulled him over. Sweet.

[Timmy]

I've been in an ambulance with some pretty stupid medics as well! Some of the stunts they pull are just stupid.

Number 1 hate. Tag alongs, they see the ambulance bells n whistles and decide to sit right up there ass. Apparently it makes the cops think its the worried parents following the truck to hospital. :roll:

[MeekoBB]

New Jersey...Bergen County... Route 17 North & South from Maywood/Lodi all the way up to Ridgewood :shock:

Hackensack, Ave, Hackensack....During a major storm, a television reporter was struck by car while filming, hit and run

Kinderkamack Ave can be bad too at times especially is Oradell.

Ridgewood Ave in Paramus.

Maywood Ave & Spring Valley Road by the mall.

I can go on...

[thecroc]

in your all ambos do you have a raido that you can call the pd on

maybe GET THE PD

[MeekoBB]

in your all ambos do you have a raido that you can call the pd on

maybe GET THE PD

Private ambulances here don't usually have local pd stations...In most of the companies I've seen, they have only 4 channgel radio for the state police, HEAR, medics, and whatever 3rd one they choose if they program it.

If you are on municiple ambulance then you would have access to PD frequency...But i know, at least in my town, they get pissy if you use thier frequency.

[fallout]

If you work for a medium-sized city service, like I do, we call on our primary to dispatch for PD and then they relay the call to PD. It seems silly, but it keeps things organized.

[CrazyNCute02]

Private ambulances here don't usually have local pd stations...In most of the companies I've seen, they have only 4 channgel radio for the state police, HEAR, medics, and whatever 3rd one they choose if they program it.

If you are on municiple ambulance then you would have access to PD frequency...But i know, at least in my town, they get pissy if you use thier frequency.

Yea. I understand wat u mean. My company has the scanner cuz we are doin' some town EMS. I've found that JEMS4 is a good station if you wanna get the local PD. I found that out when we got bored & decided to listen to how retarted the Teaneck PD can be. :twisted: