parking cones ???

[ohiobuckeyefan]

anyone using parking cones around their trucks/ vans when they park? i saw that most of the local cable tv service trucks set one in the front and one in the rear. it got my attention when i saw it being used. is there do's and dont's for them? i wonder too has anyone set a cone done there work and come back and the cone was stolen?

[beachtech]

it's real fun to watch them fly off the front of your truck when doing eighty down the interstate :D:D:D

[BobbyBJr]

We have to use them around town to avoid parking tickets. If we park in 2-hour parking or on a sidewalk, and have the cones out, we can stay as long as necessay to do whatever we are doing. It's also a good idea when there are kids around because it makes you walk all the way around the truck before leaving.

[beachtech]

not here. if you don't feed the money sucking machine or spend an hour getting a pass a the poopoo dept. you are going to get a parking ticket :mad: :mad:

[scottsacavsfan]

Dude please dont start that trend in my town
if you start camping out at jobs
next thing you know we will all have to do it

O H:D

[tarheel_tech]

We use them when we rent a crane for a RTU change out/install.Really does not do any good,idiots still walk under the unit.:rolleyes:

[ohiobuckeyefan]

I O :D
i see plumbers, cable guys even the phone company using them. i think it looks like a good idea. spray paint stencil your company name and phone number on them and put them out there.

[amickracing]

Cable company does it here, and I think the phone company too.

Surprised we don't to be honest. I don't think it's a bad idea, but I'm sure I'd drive off a few times before I remembered them.

[kah1010]

it's real fun to watch them fly off the front of your truck when doing eighty down the interstate :D:D:D

...my truck will do eighty only with help of tornado - or while driving off cliff :rolleyes:

[James3703]

[QUOTE=amickracing;2761272]Cable company does it here, and I think the phone company too.

Surprised we don't to be honest. I don't think it's a bad idea, but I'm sure I'd drive off a few times before I remembered them.[/QUO

Maybe tie a small rope to the cones and close it in the back door of the truck,
that'll help to remember it when putting your stuff back in the truck at the end of calls.

[hvacrjones]

[QUOTE=amickracing;2761272]
Maybe tie a small rope to the cones and close it in the back door of the truck,
that'll help to remember it when putting your stuff back in the truck at the end of calls.

no he will just drive off trailing the cones behind like he just got hitched :D

[madhat]

We used to do that to avoid parking tickets, also had an orange strobe that folded out from inside the back door of the truck on a home made bracket. It worked for a while then they started ticketing us again. The cable companies still do this, can park all day, into the rush hour and not a single ticket. :confused: Think I figured it out, does anyone know where I can get large ESPN Decals? :rolleyes:

[yellowirenut]

not to de-rail the post....most cities give cable companies exclusive rights to cover the city..the cable company in turn pays the city a licensing fee..that's why no tickets, they pay the city threw the back door already. (Indiana banned this..i have FiOS now)

[fcs]

They're handy way to get people from parking you in

[zw17]

Try that in downtown Columbus and let me know if you get a ticket.

I do see a lot of the local subcontractors for Time Warner doing this though, even while parked in a parking spot.

O-H

[scottsacavsfan]

I O
Anytime I have to go to the city I add a few bucks to the ticket for parking
because you can never find a meter and if you do some Buck Nut will park you in then after you bump their car trying to get out the alarm will go off and you look like a fool trying to pull out with everyone laughing..........
Im just saying ,,,,,,so I have been told .....:o

[madhat]

not to de-rail the post....most cities give cable companies exclusive rights to cover the city..the cable company in turn pays the city a licensing fee..that's why no tickets, they pay the city threw the back door already. (Indiana banned this..i have FiOS now)

We had something similair, we did work for the District of Columbia, and they stiffed us. :mad:

[zw17]

I O
Anytime I have to go to the city I add a few bucks to the ticket for parking
because you can never find a meter and if you do some Buck Nut will park you in then after you bump their car trying to get out the alarm will go off and you look like a fool trying to pull out with everyone laughing..........
Im just saying ,,,,,,so I have been told .....:o

Everyone knows us Buckeye fans are too poor to afford a car alarm. :p

I have had a few close calls at the parking meters downtown but working on campus is the worst. Their traffic and parking nazis make any cities seasoned professional look like a girl scout. :D

[TCreacy]

Most companies that employee a safety department have impleneted the cones around service trucks. One of the local AC Companies here used them. Your were supposed to place them far enough out to give you room to access all sides of the truck. To try and prevent accidents while you are getting a tool out of the street side of the vehicle.

[mgould2]

They come in handy when you need access to the sides of your vehicle in a parking lot. Company policy is use them at your own discretion. Cones also work good when the parking person want to ticket you for backing into a park space. Properly placing cones makes your vehicle a construction site and unable to be ticketed,

Did you know that moving somebody else's cone cones is illegal and a felony. We had a police officer move ours once and cause a mishap. The local OSHA filed charges. The police officer is no longer in law enforcement.

[fcs]

They come in handy when you need access to the sides of your vehicle in a parking lot. Company policy is use them at your own discretion. Cones also work good when the parking person want to ticket you for backing into a park space. Properly placing cones makes your vehicle a construction site and unable to be ticketed,

Did you know that moving somebody else's cone cones is illegal and a felony. We had a police officer move ours once and cause a mishap. The local OSHA filed charges. The police officer is no longer in law enforcement.


I didn't know that. DO you rememmber the OSHA distance?


Hope it goings decent for you. Hang tought

[Murphcoair]

If you put cones in the front and back of your truck in Manhattan , you would get a ticket on the truck and one for each of the cones.

[vstech]

Ive used them, never purchased any though... I find them all over the roads.... heh.

[papa_jo]

I use the ones the cable guys lose while goin 80 mph down the road :-))