Box assignments

 Today's rant is about box assignments and the helter-skelter way companies are moved around.The days of following the card should be a distant memory.Giving certain units city-wide service while others don't respond a mile away is stupid.

 Giving today's computer aided dispatch systems (CADs) and custom programming options I don't see why we don't use a program that will send the closest companies to the fire.Period.

 Now I have benefited & suffered by being on certain companies.Either going by units in quarters to respond or watching them go by us.There's just no justification for this unless the unit is specialized in something that's needed.Tower Ladder, Heavy Rescue etc...