From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 10:05:14 PDT
In New York State, the Federal Excess Property rules state that after 18
months, a motor vehicle can be sold to the public by the organization to
which the vehicle was "donated". Office equipment, tools, etc, have their
own timetables. In Pennsylvania, I believe that the same rules apply.
There is a Borough (Township) highway department in PA which regularly
obtains military trucks (their entire fleet is M-series), keeps the trucks
for a few years, and sell them at auction, usually for much more than their
original "donated" (purchase) price. The superintendent of highways is a
local hero, as his department has a positive budget, rather than a negative
one.
I have bought a couple of trucks from them, as have a couple of my friends.
Apparently the difference between these examples and the one being discussed
on the list is that the Forestry Dept. has gotten into the chain of
ownership, and they have different rules.
Arthur P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Peterson" <peteweld57@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] DNR, M35, Fire Dept.
> They may or may not get caught, but they can't provide
> a "good" title. A nearby township volunteer FD
> upgraded equipment, and sold a Deuce at auction a few
> years back, and it, like ours, had came from the
> Forestry Dept. These vehicles are loaners, and must be
> returned to the DNR.
> When the buyer tried to get a title for it, it all
> came to a screeching halt.
> Theirs was a relatively honest mistake, as some of
> these units have been used for many years, and because
> of personnel changes, and perhaps poor record keeping,
> it's been forgotten that they weren't purchased.
>
>
> --- Terry Lane <tlane@mobynet.com> wrote:
> > There is a plate rivited to the dash saying cant be
> > traded or
> > sold, etc, without permisiion from DNR. Does anyone
> > know how hard it
> > would
> > be to get the truck, or has anyone ever done this
> > before? Its a nice
> > truck,
> > runs great, a beast to drive (More than the m211).
> > So I though I would
> > throw
> > that out, and see if anyone knew about this.
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Caleb
> > Hi Caleb,
> > Last year I went to an auction at Lancaster
> > Calif. put on my the city
> > dept of public works. They had all kinds of stuff
> > for auction and the
> > one that caught my eye of course was an M35-A2C with
> > only 750 original
> > miles on it.
> > They had obtained it from YERMO, USMC as a
> > loan/donation 5 years ago and
> > had used it very little. They wound up taking the
> > flip down sidebords
> > off the bed
> > and transplanting the bed onto a 1980 dodge 2 ton
> > truck so they could
> > use the metal duece bed for asphalt hi-way repair.
> > (transport of hot
> > asphalt on the metal bed) Sic. Oh well, I saw a
> > plate on the duece that
> > read property of USMC not to be sold. Must be
> > returned to USMC if donar
> > is through with the truck. They went ahead and
> > auctioned it off and it
> > went for $1200. I was just sick. I had bidded up to
> > $1150 but that was
> > as far as I could go being there and seeing by
> > accident. I only had my
> > checkbook, no credit card. I asked them how they
> > could legally sell the
> > truck and the guy in charge said the USMC would
> > never know it was gone
> > and that he didn't plan to tell them!
> > So for what it is worth. I guess the tail waggs the
> > dog some times.
> > Regards---Terry
> >
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