Re: [MV] Picture Cars Company

From: chance wolf (timberwolf@lynx.bc.ca)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 23:21:54 PDT


At 10:47 PM 7/21/00 EDT, MVTrucker@aol.com wrote:
>List,
>Are any of you familiar with a company by the name Picture Cars Company?
>I live in NJ and they are going to put on some sort of event at a large local
>campground. I got a call from a woman named Dina and she offered $500.
>as payment if I could supply a deuce and driver for a full day. Besides
having
>the truck on display, I was asked to provide rides for youngsters in it.
>There's
>no way that I can do it, maybe a Lister in the area of South Jersey would be
>interested, but before I post a phone number, I'd like any input that I might
>get on the company.
>Thanks,
>Joe "MV Trucker" Young
>Bridgeton NJ

Can't help with the company information, but the company I subcontract for,
International Movie Services, has done several gigs of that type with M35's,
drivers supplied, and passengers riding troop-style in the back. Not sure if
regulations vary from state to state, but up here it's a pain in the ass to
figure
out exactly who's insured for what in case junior takes a header off of the
tailgate
and winds up suing one party or all. The way the company seems to have worked
it out is have the umbrella organization (in your case it would be Picture
Cars)
have 'event insurance' or some sort of legally binding waiver for all
participants
to sign before you haul them in your deuce. Either way, I *think* the
event would
have to be entirely confined to private property (as in the gig I just did
in Whistler,
B.C. with the deuces and humvees), but rules vary from jurisdiction to
jusrisdiction.

I hate the legalese/litigation mindset as much as the next guy (probably
more, actually),
but forewarned is forearmed. Just seems to be the way Joe Citizen appears
to think
nowadays. Litigate your way to fame and fortune.

Andy Hill (we had one drunk take a dive off the tailgate, face plant, then try
                  to catch a lift on a following humvee looking like a VN
battle
                  casualty. Sheesh.)



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