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Thought it might be fun or different to hear all the names you might call an ambulance, not "truck" or "bus" but slang type of terms like "band aid box" or something along those lines.
We generally call it either a unit or an ambulance in normal discourse. I never had anyone call it a truck or, god forbid, bus.
You call it a bus here, they presume you work for a school...
mainly sh!tbox, pos, granny getter, whambulance
"Bus" seems to be a FDNY thing... after Third Watch became popular, the term started to be used in this area. The county's radio room supervisor sent a memo to every Fire/EMS department that said that you needed to call a BLS ambulance an ambulance, an ALS ambulance a MICU, a chase car medic a medic, and if you asked for a bus, you'd be asked "how many passengers" and if you had a preference for transportation vendor.
My list was a rather comprehensive list of national phrases.