I’ve been looking for a while for a high-visibility vest – ideally ANSI Class III (visible at – I think it’s 1,250 feet – in poor lighting conditions, like snow or rain, visible from all sides) – that also  had pockets. And had great difficulty finding a garment that was serious about storage and visibility. Lots of great special ops-type vests – in any color you want as long as it’s black.

I’ve been looking every time I find a new EMS or SAR or similar supplied. I  stumbled on  these guys through a Google search (I think for “ANSI” +”vest” +”pocket”).

Here’s a link to the vest. 

And, of course, it comes in any color you want, as long as it’s high-visibility yellow. Trimmed with Scotchlite at virtually every opportunity. The person I spoke with, Mark Robinett, told me that while they don’t make this in-house, it was designed by Dan White of AllMed. So I’ve ordered one – and I’ve got high expectations. (My nefarious scheme is to try to get them to add some Reflexite to each surface, some velcro or dual-lock on the back and/or front for names, assignments, etc).

New Yorkers involved in CERT stuff know that people are often selling “CERT” gear that doesn’t remotely approach the ANSI specs, and is very overpriced.

I’ll try to add photos of the AllMed vest – and the not-so-useful “CERT” vests to this post later.

I did some quick comparisons of AllMed’s gear and prices and my impression is that they’re very  competitive about price – and, while they have a pretty wide range of merchandise – one gets the impression they’re fussy about the brands they stock.

Here’s a link to AllMed.

Note: not that we’re not thoroughly corrupt (we are, after all, New Yorkers, and have a reputation to live up to) – but because we’re going to review this item, we paid for it, as is our current policy.