No offense taken.
Actually, ALF could have put a Roto-Ray on V-133, look at V-64 (E402) and it has one and it's older then ours. It wasn't that they couldn't, they didn't want to (anything not in their order book was an issue for them, which at one point I asked why they bothered calling it a custom truck, just added to the love some people at ALF had for me) and when they balked it was an opening for a well respected volunteer member of our committee to come up with the box, which has a circle pattern to it to meet the "intent" of a ray. I will say, having had it come up behind me running calls it is effective - though a poor substitute for the real thing.
When we did the Pierce there was a debate if it should have one or not - we don't have a history of buying them and one member of the committee was pushing hard to not put it on the rig - and I politely placed my five bugles on the table ending the debate and that's why we have one.
I maybe a product of the Pennsylvania fire service where we view the Ray as a novelty but I've learned the value (both functionally and morale wise) of having a Roto-Ray on our rigs.
[quote name='Roto-Ray' timestamp='1329018633' post='474391']
At the time the rig was ordered, ALF hadn't come up with a way to mount a Roto-Ray on their cab, so this box with alternating lights was their alternative. At least the intent was there!
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Actually, ALF could have put a Roto-Ray on V-133, look at V-64 (E402) and it has one and it's older then ours. It wasn't that they couldn't, they didn't want to (anything not in their order book was an issue for them, which at one point I asked why they bothered calling it a custom truck, just added to the love some people at ALF had for me) and when they balked it was an opening for a well respected volunteer member of our committee to come up with the box, which has a circle pattern to it to meet the "intent" of a ray. I will say, having had it come up behind me running calls it is effective - though a poor substitute for the real thing.
When we did the Pierce there was a debate if it should have one or not - we don't have a history of buying them and one member of the committee was pushing hard to not put it on the rig - and I politely placed my five bugles on the table ending the debate and that's why we have one.
I maybe a product of the Pennsylvania fire service where we view the Ray as a novelty but I've learned the value (both functionally and morale wise) of having a Roto-Ray on our rigs.
[quote name='Roto-Ray' timestamp='1329018633' post='474391']
At the time the rig was ordered, ALF hadn't come up with a way to mount a Roto-Ray on their cab, so this box with alternating lights was their alternative. At least the intent was there!
[/quote]
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