It'll buff out

[speerk]

Truck in residential streets in New York 

https://uberhumor.com/what-could-go-wrong-driving-a-truck-illegal-for-residential-streets-in-nyc-press-unmute

[Freightrain]

Holey Crap!  Thats gunno cost him.  Doh.

[mrgumby]

Damn gps 

[tjc transport]

I watched a FDNJ truck go down a road in Brooklyn about 5 years ago and it tore 15 double parked cars apart with the big steel front push bumper.

And he was not tiptoeing down the road, he was going close to 20 mph.

After he went through the cops came through and wrote tickets for each one of the before towing them all away.

[carlotpilot]

thats the reason for the bumper

[General Ike]

19 hours ago, tjc transport said:

I watched a FDNJ truck go down a road in Brooklyn about 5 years ago and it tore 15 double parked cars apart with the big steel front push bumper.

And he was not tiptoeing down the road, he was going close to 20 mph.

After he went through the cops came through and wrote tickets for each one of the before towing them all away.

As a former firefighter, chauffer and line officer, I can tell you that 99/100 chauffers and the lieutenant riding the officers seat wouldn't have done that unless they were dispatched to a job where time meant lives, and the result was going to be that their rig would be out of service for months to repair it.  Only time I ever had to use the bumper was to push a car out of the way (parked illegally of course) that was blocking a fire hydrant.  No time for that famous photo op where the guys break the windows and run the LDH through the car, although I always wanted to do that.

The other trouble that FDNY has, is tail slap on the tower ladders, especially in the older parts of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn where the streets are one way, super narrow and parking is allowed on both sides.

[other dog]

I remember back in the 80's when we were hauling structural steel to Boston just willy-nilly. I hated it, all the traffic and narrow streets. Anyway, Sam couldn't make a right turn to get to a job site because a car was parked on the corner- illegally of course. So he was sitting there, had the entire street blocked, both directions. A cop came walking up and asked what the problem was, and Sam told him he couldn't make the turn without hitting the car. The cop looked and told him to get turning and unblock the street. Sam said "I can't, i'll hit that car."  The cop told him to run over the car because the car wasn't supposed to be there in the first place, and if he didn't HE was going to get a ticket. So he proceeded to run over the car. I would have probably enjoyed it if it was me.

[alex g]

My uncle told me a similar story years ago in New York City. Cop told him to keep moving. I thought that might have been a isolated incident

[tjc transport]

2 hours ago, General Ike said:

As a former firefighter, chauffer and line officer, I can tell you that 99/100 chauffers and the lieutenant riding the officers seat wouldn't have done that unless they were dispatched to a job where time meant lives,

agreed. they were on their way to a structure fire on the end of that block with entrapment. 

and there was no down time for the truck, it had a GIANT push plate out front. 

[Quickfarms]

I remember growing up there were these retirement villages in the next town and they had there own security with rent a cops and gates. The rent a cops wanted the fire trucks and ambulances to stop and wait for them to call the house before they could enter.

That ended when the chief ordered the brush truck, 5 ton ex military, with full cage to push trees out of the way to respond with the engines. In the entrance the engines stoped and the brush truck took the lead. Somehow the brush truck took out both guard shacks and gates in one pass. As the story goes from that day on they had no problem entering any retirement village in the area even without runnning lights and sirens. 

[Outbehindthebarn]

[mowerman]

not sure what this guy was trying to do,,,and why did he hit that fire hydrant........bob