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Faults truck?

I assume it's a troubleshooting truck called out when the feces hits the oscillating rotator?

Edited to add - if you're on call for PoCo, and you're required to respond in their truck to faults, then why would they complain about your taking the truck to the FD, since you would (assumably) take it to the store, the movies, etc? (unless of course you live next to the only other faultsman in the area, and you time share it [Linked Image] )

We had a case a few years ago where most of the Public Works (street/water/sewer) guys at my VFD were on the FD - they used to take one of the "reserve" engines, and their turnouts, to the PW garage, and respond from there to fire calls during the day. Made for a nice "extra" crew, during a usually meager response time.

Then the bean counters got involved - started clocking them out of their $12.00/hr jobs when the pager went off and clocking them in at the (then) $3.50/hr VFD rate, and waiting until the call was over to resume "normal" pay... even though they were working for the Village the entire time.

After the Village refused to change it's stance, most of the PW guys quit the FD. But hey, what does some stuffed shift chair polisher care about FD response and fireground staffing anyway, right? [Linked Image]

[This message has been edited by DougW (edited 01-31-2004).]