Re: Wannbe HAM   
     By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Mon Sep 19 2016 21:22:52   
      
    ML> i really don't care if it is on top or not as long as the heavy machinery   
    ML> doesn't crush my vehicle and if they do i have plenty of fwarning that   
    ML> they should have seen ;)   
      
    JD>>>> Police have both blue and red, while Ambulance and Fire Trucks   
    JD>>>> have simply red   
      
    ML>>> that's why i have to go with green, and/or yellow with white... the   
    ML>>> main thing is to be seen when on the side of the road or on a busy   
    ML>>> construction site with big loaders, haulers and diggers running   
    ML>>> around...   
      
    JD>> Blue is used here by snow removal crews, and yes, being visible is   
    JD>> good    
      
      
    ML> absolutely... blue is only used by gendarmes here in the lower 48 ;)   
      
      
   Snow removal has ONLY blue, while gendarmes have both blue and red.  (Used to   
   be red only but the started copying the US style about 10 years ago I think it   
   was)  In Europe it has been blue forever, and a very distinctive siren    
   --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32   
    * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)