Bung: I don't see any reason for unmarked response vehicles for non enforcement agencies such as Police & Customs etc.

Your comment doesn't make sense - both those agencies have the power of arrest.

I think the triple negative is hard to understand…….. :-)

Bung: Sorry must of had rain on my glasses. Easy enough to unpick what I should have said. Unless it is an enforcement agency why should the response vehicle be unmarked? If ambulance and fire management need to use their work vehicles they should be marked.

Fire investigators?  Scene commanders?

Community Care Paramedics who use personal vehicles?

There's plenty of reasons for unmarked vehicles that will sometimes need to respond with urgency despite not being an enforcement agency.  Including reducing the likelihood of the vehicle being targetted for theft of the contents (for example the paramedic level drugs they may be carrying).

I wonder if Wellington Free Ambulance have updated a couple of the old unmarked fleet.

The video in the previous post showed a white Mitsubishi Lancer, which checks out with a website\Flickr page going by the name of 111Emergency

http://www.111emergency.co.nz/J-M/JKQ748.htm

Looking through the 111Emergency website, under the Wellington Free Ambulance, they had\have an older Outlander, so maybe that has been replaced by the vehicle seen.

https://www.111emergency.co.nz/S-W/WFA.htm

As a side the Flickr photostream has a lot of very cool photos. All credits to the photographer

https://www.flickr.com/photos/111emergency/

We went to a comedy night on Friday.  The entertainment began before we even got to the venue.

If you take the 1st letter of the Ford Ranger's rego to be a "G" according to Carjam it is a Mazda BT 50. So is it a Ford with Mazda plates or a Mazda with a Ranger tailgate?

Bung:

 

If you take the 1st letter of the Ford Ranger's rego to be a "G" according to Carjam it is a Mazda BT 50. So is it a Ford with Mazda plates or a Mazda with a Ranger tailgate?

 

@Bung ,I think the rego is GUM655.

(that's a screensnip from the original vid)

That comes back to a white Ranger

Oh god it hurts to work out the thinking processes of some drivers!

The other day it was pretty windy so Auckland harbour bridge had some lanes closed so allow for cars being nudged over lines in gusts.  Big over head signs all clearly saying to get over and lanes were closed ahead, then further along you have big f'ing trucks with flashing lights and giant glowing "X's" in the lanes to indicate that "THIS LANE IS CLOSED!" .. should be really simple to understand .. but no!  As soon as cars passed the trucks in the open lanes they cut across behind the trucks to use the "closed" lanes ... and not just one, dozens of the morons!

Mark:

 

Oh god it hurts to work out the thinking processes of some drivers!

 

The other day it was pretty windy so Auckland harbour bridge had some lanes closed so allow for cars being nudged over lines in gusts.  Big over head signs all clearly saying to get over and lanes were closed ahead, then further along you have big f'ing trucks with flashing lights and giant glowing "X's" in the lanes to indicate that "THIS LANE IS CLOSED!" .. should be really simple to understand .. but no!  As soon as cars passed the trucks in the open lanes they cut across behind the trucks to use the "closed" lanes ... and not just one, dozens of the morons!

 

That is because we are all sick of this BS from the guys that run the bridge with them closing lanes or the bridge entirely because there is a little bit of wind which was never a problem in the past until the truck hit the bridge. Same as most people will disregard the stupid yellow speeds that they put up on the bridge.

I don't care if you want to go a little bit faster than me on this four lane motorway, I'm just plodding along.

I think it's great that you dont want to sit in the 'fast' lane longer than you need to.

But when you pull back into the 'slow' lane, do you have to do that one car length in front of me?

richms:

 

That is because we are all sick of this BS from the guys that run the bridge with them closing lanes or the bridge entirely because there is a little bit of wind which was never a problem in the past until the truck hit the bridge. Same as most people will disregard the stupid yellow speeds that they put up on the bridge.

 

So road rules are something we can pick and choose to follow?

Mark:

 

richms:

 

That is because we are all sick of this BS from the guys that run the bridge with them closing lanes or the bridge entirely because there is a little bit of wind which was never a problem in the past until the truck hit the bridge. Same as most people will disregard the stupid yellow speeds that they put up on the bridge.

 

 

So road rules are something we can pick and choose to follow?

 

You can.  Just need to be aware that there are likely to be consequences for your actions.  That's the bit that some people seem to choose to ignore and then whine about when they happen.