In our district, we cover a lot of highway. I-94, U.S. Hwy 12, U.S. Hwy 20 and S.R. 149, several miles of two and three lane highway is ours to protect. With a majority of our service area being industrial, with steel production as well as finishing mills, we have an extreme amount of truck traffic. We have been lucky not to have had any members injured or any accidents while working calls. With that being said, I think we have out tactics and training to thank for no unfortunate incidents. Whenever we are dispatched to any of our highways, a couple of extra steps have proved to work for our crews as well as scene safety. Even for a medic run, we send an engine up there with them to take a lane of traffic and ensure that other motorist will have to get through a 39,000 pound engine before they can get to the scene. Proper rig placement, lighting and traffic cones can funnel traffic away from our office, so to speak. Our personnel are trained to never turn our backs to traffic and always use our traffic cones on every run. Sometime the State Police are not our biggest fans, but they seem to understand and even appreciate our safety efforts, most of the time. Even our mutual aid companies follow this protocol whenever they come to our aid. As a company officer, I take highway safety very seriously and couldn't imagine if something was to happen to one of my guys, nor would I ever forgive myself. Take an extra couple of minutes, protect the scene, your crew, your equipment and most of all........cover your a$$. Stay aggressive and have a great weekend my friends.