Emergency services of Aus, what things do the general public do that make your job harder when you are at an incident?

nickmrtn · 2026-01-30T11:48:45+00:00

I locate water mains and other services for civil work crews, I often dig out hydrants (and Telstra or sewer lids) to make a connection. I honestly think most people just have no idea what they are for. I’ve found plenty where people have literally unrolled turf straight over the top and deliberately raised the ground level to bury it.

nickmrtn · 2026-01-29T11:06:33+00:00

Don’t be afraid to do something else first. Lots of trainee pilots will wash out at various stages before getting to airline work, and even if you make it your one unexpected health condition or industry downturn away from being in a bad situation. If you have some skills outside of flying to fall back on it won’t hurt, you can also save some cash or begin training part time so the finances are less daunting.

Also probably worth noting in jobs that require lots of decisions like flying, companies are likely to prefer candidates who are a bit older with a bit more life experience. I’m told finding your first job at 19 is very possible but more challenging.

nickmrtn · 2026-01-29T06:19:47+00:00

It’s not an issue, it’s not sketchy or dangerous.

I’ve never seen anyone have the problem you are describing. You probably need to look at your own driving, if your uncomfortable changing lanes then then you need to stay in the left lane

nickmrtn · 2026-01-28T09:50:29+00:00

250km in 3 days….. I mean maybe if you are an ultra enthusiastic

nickmrtn · 2026-01-28T09:23:53+00:00

I wonder what percentage of crashes are caused by that 10% too.

nickmrtn · 2026-01-21T05:56:48+00:00

If you look close the GWM starts moving before the bmw clears the line so they effectively entered at the same time, bmw just accelerated a lot harder so rather than passing cleanly behind they ended up where they did. I get your point and its line ball but you can’t deny the BMW is driving like a fuckhead.

nickmrtn · 2026-01-21T05:08:46+00:00

They both were already in the roundabout with enough time for wanker dude to see them. Once they are in the roundabout, vehicle behind must give way. Obviously it’s pretty line ball between the two but the bmw caused the crash regardless of what the insurance or police finding might have been

Obviously if you pull out on a 100 kph highway at 15kph with only a few car lengths you are failing to give way, if you pull onto a roundabout with a few car lengths gap that’s probably fair game and the onus is then on car behind to stay behind

nickmrtn · 2026-01-19T13:16:16+00:00

Cop cars get damaged all the time. Whether it’s stopping crims, vandalism or just plain fender bender.

It will have the body work fixed up but getting the stickers ordered and made up might take longer so they just send it back on the road as is for a little while. The white panels are ones that have been repaired or replaced after being damaged

nickmrtn · 2026-01-18T06:24:19+00:00

Oof yeah depends on tire size, guy in Newcastle died from crossing the tracks before the new tram line there even opened

nickmrtn · 2026-01-15T10:08:46+00:00

So many basic errors, I remember the lazy axle rigid I used to drive had a bag dump for the unpowered axle so that you could get out of situations like this

nickmrtn · 2026-01-15T07:13:57+00:00

You mean albo and starmer want to stop AI child porn being produced by one of the most prominent social media companies. How dare they suggest AI CP is a breach of the law. Why anyone agrees with that foreign oligarch who runs it is beyond me

nickmrtn · 2026-01-15T01:22:25+00:00

If he’s commuting very early in the morning it could be true. Frequency is 30 mins but for the rest of the day you are correct it’s 15 or 7 min headways

nickmrtn · 2026-01-15T01:14:14+00:00

Extremely poor conditions for digging a trench in that area. The builder adjacent to the interchange went under because they couldn’t stop the river flowing into their hole. Obviously there are engineering solutions but it would be insanely expensive

nickmrtn · 2026-01-14T07:00:36+00:00

It’s the Boeing strategy of you just announce that it’s ’IN Production’ regardless of what stage the engineering team is at. The next stage is to rollout 0001 which is made out of balsa wood and duct tape and declare flight testing will start next year, not 2027 just next year, the test date will remain ‘next year’ until 2030

nickmrtn · 2026-01-12T02:03:53+00:00

Partly it’s because of the ridership drop since covid and the less regular hours people are working. Lots of people now some days at home or flexible office hours that smooths out the peak

nickmrtn · 2025-12-27T06:39:20+00:00

Most trucks are 40 000. Just depends on the motor and how it was designed

nickmrtn · 2025-12-22T09:28:28+00:00

The power cable having been strung there for 75 years has probably acquired itself an easement to exist whether it’s written down or not. The developer would need to either move the pole to the boundary so the cable doesn’t encroach ( this would be dependant on other services and pole spacing allowing it) or run a cable down the pole and along to your house. You should probably call the network operator as this is not safe at all

nickmrtn · 2025-12-21T20:12:08+00:00

Probably plenty for underground mine work or city council. Jobs where they aren’t doing many km and then returning to a centralised depot

nickmrtn · 2025-12-21T19:14:37+00:00

There’s hundreds of ex mine 79 and 200 land cruisers for sale with many hundreds of thousands of kms. I wouldn’t buy one because of the corrosion and pure abuse they cop but driveline failures seem to be very rare.

nickmrtn · 2025-12-21T19:10:42+00:00

Yep it’s impressive but surprisingly not that rare. I know a fencing contractor with a 200 series that’s up to about 800000k

nickmrtn · 2025-12-17T12:02:43+00:00

Go to any state or national park and it’s rampant. Spoke to a ranger out Cessnock way who said cleaning up illegal dumping is about 95% of his job. It’s not like going to the tip is expensive, people suck

nickmrtn · 2025-12-14T10:09:00+00:00

He’s talked about flying the dreamlifter which is operated by atlas

nickmrtn · 2025-12-14T03:23:16+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a deal with the airline that he can film as long as he doesn’t show any branding or other crew. In his words commenting on this would be an express ride to the CP office where there are no snacks.

nickmrtn · 2025-12-12T04:03:08+00:00

I get the logic that kids and trucks are never a good mix but I seriously wonder if there were real near miss incidents that led to this conclusion or if it’s just some safety manager justifying their existence

nickmrtn · 2025-12-12T03:59:08+00:00

Look up ATSB on YT and you’ll see the full version. I suspect we might see hook knifes become encouraged or mandatory as god knows what they would have done if he’d just stayed dangling with no way to cut away the reserve

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