Coming home on the M4 last night I saw a recovery truck with green hazard flashers. Is this a change in practice as, up till now, I was under the impression that green was used by doctors responding when on call?
Yeah, all recovery drivers have had to train as medics, this is because Vosa make drivers stand on the hard shoulder, in very bad weather conditions, getting freezing cold, and soaking wet, and it saves having to call 2 emergency services, what they call in the trade : Killing two birds with one stone
truckyboy:
…, what they call in the trade :Killing two birds with one stone
Bit Peter Sutcliffe then?? 
I’ll get me coat.
They love them led flashing lights them boys ,more the better i say ,next thing you know they be putting christmas tree,s on the roof,s
Get yourself seen ,it,s a pity motorcyclists weren,t . the same…
maestegboy:
Get yourself seen ,it,s a pity motorcyclists weren,t . the same…
I’ll go with that night time all in black leathers 
Green is for doctors or medics on call. Recovery driver bought some coloured flashing lights off ebay I reckon.
I have seen blue LED’s on a road roller on roadworks and red LEDS on a works van parked at the side of the road in a layby. ■■■■■ No wonder lights have less and less effect for emergency services with trucks with static blue lights, vans with red and road rollers with blue. It makes it look pretty and cheap LEDS on ebay makes it easy to buy.
Dont get me started on bin lorries, breakdown trucks and loads 4’’ wider than the bed all flashing amber lights at 56mph… 
Now we are talking about it, why so many drivers forget to turn off their flashing orange beacons, is it a macho look at me flasheys.!!
countykev:
No wonder lights have less and less effect for emergency services with trucks with static blue lights, vans with red and road rollers with blue. It makes it look pretty and cheap LEDS on ebay makes it easy to buy.Dont get me started on bin lorries, breakdown trucks and loads 4’’ wider than the bed all flashing amber lights at 56mph…
Bloody well said!
Not a macho thing, we just FORGET that they still on but we do tell each other when we see 'em on so they get switched off.
maestegboy:
Get yourself seen ,it,s a pity motorcyclists weren,t . the same…
Even if we were you wouldn’t see us for all the bling on yer rigs. 
Like countykev says, everything’s so over-lit these days it’s getting too ■■■■ easy to miss stuff.
I’ve done 2 stints on vehicle recovery and the industry campaigned long and hard for flashing red lights to be made compulsory on all recovery vehicles, in order to distinguish them from others, following a spate of night time accidents involving recovery operatives. As we now know, it’s the plod that’s taken them on now.
But green ones? It’s a new one on me.