What color are your trucks?

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Permalink Reply by Mike on November 23, 2008 at 7:07am

They tried to make a national standard in the late 70's early 80's of the ugly yellow/green fore safety purposes...never happened. Personally I like the traditional red. Our dept. has all red except one truck tha twas purchased in 1980 that still has the yellow.

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Permalink Reply by T.J. on November 23, 2008 at 7:47am

Watch it Mike...............LOL, we've got those "ugly yellow/green trucks but I like them more than red just because it's something different and you see red ones everyday.

Plus red is for stop and green is for go, so Mike you can be the back up team..........LOL:)

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Permalink Reply by Mike on November 23, 2008 at 4:34pm

http://www.moorestownfire.org/htmlfiles/apparatus.html
http://hosecompanyone.com/apparatus.html

Back up team huh?!?!? I don't think so. :) Anyway, yes other colors on the apparatus do make them different and the firefighters tend to take a pretty determined stand for whatever their department has. My old department took delivery of a rescue shortly after 9/11, we had the truck painted black over red and was dedicated to the brothers that gave all that day. After that there was an attempt to change all of the apparatus to match, never passed though. Check out Rescue 3119 on either of the links.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on November 23, 2008 at 8:39am

I know this is going to start something (Again)....We have bright YELLOW trucks...its a tradition here and we have gotten to like it...(I think because it is so different)...Our neighboring departments tell us that we don't have any firetrucks....only school buses are yellow......so we respond that Red trucks get you to the fire....BUT, it takes a YELLOW one to put it out.....LOL actually there is a department not too far off that has purple ones......Stay safe and keep the faith......Paul

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Permalink Reply by Brian D. on November 24, 2008 at 10:20pm

Black over red, baby!

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Permalink Reply by Jim on November 24, 2008 at 10:25pm

That IS a nice looking "million dollar taxi" ride, though! (wink)

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Permalink Reply by Jim on November 24, 2008 at 10:24pm

Red w/ white cabs....THAT took awhile to grow on me...

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Permalink Reply by turk182 on November 24, 2008 at 10:28pm

Oours are white with a gold stripe.

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Permalink Reply by Terry Ingram, Sr. on November 24, 2008 at 11:40pm

NOT ANY DEPARTMENTS I'M AFFILLATED WITH. JUST SHOWING SOME PICS...

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Permalink Reply by Crystal on November 25, 2008 at 8:17am

Here where I am from we have mostly red in our county. Most of the guys here are guilty of saying "real fire trucks are RED" but we have also white/Blue up north and Yellow/Green to the south.

Ours are RED

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Permalink Reply by Bill Mulligan on November 25, 2008 at 10:25am

OUR TRUCK ARE WHITE OVER GREEN. BUT IF I HAD A CHOICE ALL TRUCKS WOULD BE BLACK OVER RED

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Permalink Reply by Brian D. on November 26, 2008 at 5:33pm

I like the way you think, Bill! :)

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