From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 06:05:20 PDT
The vehicles and materiel that is distributed via the FEPP does not need to
accounted for in the sense that we civilians understand. There is a time
limit for vehicles, and one for office equipment, etc, after which the stuff
may be sold without a back-accounting to the agency that issued it. I
believe that with vehicles it is 18 months in NY State.
Many highway departments and fire departments have received trucks, used
them, and sold them at a "profit" after the statutory time period has
elapsed. It is common, and not illegal. I have a pipeline delivery truck
that is essentially residue. (Some a$$holes stripped all the unique parts
off, because they were "useless for a fire-fighting application".) It has a
tree growing through it. Most of the edible parts have been removed, and if
I were asked to justify my ownership, I would not be able to offer any
reasonable chain of title. I doubt if it is on any list of "missing" trucks.
APBloom
www.M35products.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron" <rojoha@adelphia.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Missing vehicles
> "30.000 STATE vehicles missing" sounds like a problem with US Government
> surplus vehicles given to states for use with the proviso that they must
be
> returned at the end of service or 'accounted' for when sold.
> 'Hey Chief, what about that PoS army truck out back we got for parts
for
> those two old brush trucks we got rid of a couple of years ago? Can we
dump
> it? We got it for free and nobody asked about it in 5 years. There's a guy
> who asked if it was for sale and it's just sitting there and we could use
a
> new grill for the station...."
> The article doesn't say when the books were LAST balanced ...
> Yep, pretty good possibility that some of the missing vehicles are
owned
> by list members. Get a title when you bought yours from the town yard?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Employee at MILVEHCO" <milveh@dslextreme.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: 24 August, 2005 00:22
> Subject: Re: [MV] Missing vehicles
>
>
> > Don't believe it Sonny? I know, my reaction too, however it's actually
> > worse, this was for just ONE state. If you read "Government Waste a-z",
> > it has some stuff that would make your hair fall out. Example: Federal
> > government fritters away at least $375 billion annually on questionable
> > programs and projects, such as the National Swine Research Center ($13
> > million), a study on mail-delivery times ($23 million), and the Robert
J.
> > Dole Institute at the University of Kansas ($6 million). Pentagon
> > recently spent $5 million to build a third golf course at Andrews Air
> > Force Base, just outside the District of Columbia....
> >
> > Anyway back to missing vehicles, latest count says 30,000 in the
newspaper
> > today...check this out...what a way to run a government...
> >
> > "30,000 state vehicles "missing"
> >
> > Daviid M. Drucker
> > Staff Writer - Sacramento Bee
> >
> > SACRAMENTO - California's fleet of state-owned vehicles swelled to
70,000
> > last year, but officials in an aggressive new asset-management push have
> > so far been able to pinpoint only about 40,000 of them."
> > To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
> >
>
>
>
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