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In the future, Jim should just publish updates of new material. I compared the 7th and 8th editions and found only a couple of pages that were different. That being said the book is a great reference and I use it all the time

Unless you're post was to be sarcastic, DDC is not a contractor but stands for Department of Design and Construction, a city agency that oversees the building of all city owned buildings

I believe a number of years ago they got that worked into their contract.

res6cue, you are indeed correct about keeping your old plates. Way back when we had the yellow plates I tried to give them back to DMV and they said we don't want them. I said what should I do with them. They said what ever you want. same thing with the Liberty plates. So they are hanging up in my garage with plates that i have collected from just about every state I've visited to. The comment about vintage plates is correct also. i have a 1967 firebird that I'm looking for 67 plates to put on it which the DMV will allow on the car provided you have the front and back and the car is registered as historical or antique. hope this clears things up

Years ago the LA county lifeguard service was a separate county department. A few years ago to save money like other agencies, they were merged with the LA County Fire Dept. becoming a division of it. Unlike here, in LA lifeguarding is a year round thing. They have a core group of year round employees that are supplemented by seasonal hires. The lifeguards are not firefighters. This info is to the best of my knowledge after talking to lifeguards while visiting LA.

I concur with a previous post, when I was on the job, I can't remember myself or anyone else actually using the uniform allowance for uniform supplies. Like he said we used it for x-mas or paying bills. One interesting thing is that in my early years it was not taxed until a particular paper pusher in headquarters brought it the attention of the IRS.

For what it's worth, I spoke to my wife who is a supervisor in a NY based EMS system. One of her employees fell in the parking lot of their facility before he punched in and was given full workman's comp benefits. She seems to recall NYS workman's comp considering persons on duty 30 mins prior to the start of shift including if you get into a car accident on the way to work. She also told me that anytime her people get hurt they utilize very specialized workman's comp lawyers. If they are not paying you comp, then as the saying goes, you own them. You could go after the district and the contractor for not providing a safe constrution site. If you wnt I could try to find out what lawyers these guys use and exactly how their cases transpired. Good luck

When I was there it stood for Photo Observation Truck. It may have changed in the last few years.

I've been retired for 3 years, but when I was working the general rule of thumb was, if I was carrying my ID and shield I also carried my gun. If for some reason I was not carring the gun, I just carried ID, no shield. The reason being that if you are going to wip out your shield, you'd better have the gun to back it up.

The radio system that the state police are on on the thruway is owned and maintained by the thruway authority,that's why you hear the tow trucks and other thruway authority vehicles on it. They assign radio identifiers on it. The state police were given 7000 series numbers.

POT stands for Photo Observation Truck. There is an old one out at ESU base in Floyd Bennett Field. It was built by the members of the ESU Shop. That one hasn't been used in many years.

HELP stood for High intensity Emergency Lighting Package. It was basically just a regular police vehicle with aticulating arms on the roof with lights on them. They were used to light up incident scenes. I'm not sure exactly what you're refering to as the heavy weapons truck. You could be refering to the large Emergency Service Truck.

I had the first edition of that book and it was good, I guess I'll have to get the second edition now, I do a fair amount of traveling to So Cal. The problem with the New York version of scanner master is that it takes so long for them to put it together, alot of the information is outdated, they really should do an online version that can be constantly updated.