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misterteddy:

--- Quote from: pumprescue on November 28, 2011, 09:47:41 AM ---Mr T, just when I thought you had changed, you come out with a clanger reply....Flametree's couldn't be more accurate.

ITS NOT YOUR TRUCK.....its allocated to you, its not 1971 anymore....GET OVER IT, if you have a serviceable truck that fits your needs then that's the end of it. A bit like the current insane allocation of new trucks to stations that do less calls than I have fingers.

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sorry, to break your heart pump.....but the world will keep turning. And I dont remember saying it was 1971. I was responding to this thread in particular which is about a photo from 1971, but it was Flame who turned it into a anti CFS rant on Brigade ownership....but what would u expect I guess.

The Government Fleet Manager provides a basic truck with radios, pump,lockers and a basic hose and crappy tool fitout. For many Brigades that is sufficient and they use it and maintain it as provided. No problem with that at all. Some Brigades turn the truck into an effective firefighting appliance with better gear, better hoses, secondary pumps,better tools and equipment, better warning lights, hose winders, satnav,  etc etc

For many of us, our Brigades raise their own money to supply additional fitouts to make our life easier and to provide a more effective service. Most of the features on the current builds of appliances come from Brigades fitting their own stuff, so while the socialist view of community ownership is fine to a point, it is human nature to want to use what u are use to and what you use every day. No-one is saying they arent the Government Fleet's appliances (they arent actually the CFS' either) to move around as they see fit; just that there needs to be some level of condsideration for those that maintain them saving the Fleet Manager thousands of $$$ in the process. It cuts both ways.

pumprescue:
I really sometimes wish we did still build our own trucks, but alas I guess we will just have to put up with it and spend the fundraised money on making them work................................. :-(

Skillsy:
A great picture of Bedford in past times and it shows the effort involved by the community to get a truck in those days. The thing was that everyone in the community contributed to a truck and it would be "the communities" truck. Thanks for posting it.

FlameTrees:
Mr T I did not mean to offend, and I certainly wasnt commenting on the older system where brigades did indeed raise money for their own trucks (or had them donated)...perhaps the wrong place for my comment, but it was replying to another post early on.

It's great that brigades raise money for extra equipment they think they will need, but surely each brigade realises they may "lose" that truck at any given moment, or a new build prototype will no longer fit the equipment.

I am sorry that my opinion doesnt agree with yours. If you didnt agree, a factual reply would have sufficed, without the personal attack.

pumprescue:
You get used to Mr T ranting.... :wink:

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