From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 16:44:15 PST
Hi Ed It will probably have a NSN (should be on the dash) but that about
all. All the services will just purchase civilian type trucks like these to
use for whatever they need them for. They may go though GSA to buy them, at
least I know GSA sells lots of them. They are not tactical trucks so I
wouldn't count on a TM but a shop manual of that year and make will do. I
have bought some vans and trucks like that before and it seem that every
blue one was original white and the white ones was original blue and they
just spayed over them.
But fill us in on the process.
Did you have to "pay" anything for it?
If it was a "loan" how long do you have to keep it on the "Books"?
Can you sell after a time or give it back or trade it in?
Can you have a one man Fire Dept.? :-))
Inquiring Minds would like to Know
Wayne
>From: "Ed Kirkley" <mojoedd@bellsouth.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: [MV] THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:36:26 -0500
>
>I want to thank each and every member of this list that helped us get
>started with our states Forestry Division to get vehicles for our Volunteer
>Fire Department!
>
>We went to Columbia and got to meet and work with a VERY fine man, Larry
>Bobb, who bent over backwards to assist us in every way that he could.
>
>We ended up coming home with an ex-Air Force Dodge pickup with four full
>doors and four wheel drive. It was already painted RED! It had small,
>skinny, bad tread tires but there was an identical truck sitting right
>beside it with VERY large and fairly new "mudder" tires on it. YES, Larry
>let us swap the tires out and even helped! He had a small generator that
>we
>hooked an impact gun to. It was a great trip and we are going back before
>the end of this month. We even picked up some SCBA assemblies, spare
>bottles and masks that were new in the bag! This is indeed a GREAT place
>for Fire Departments to get items to help us do our jobs.
>
>Don't get me wrong, you do have to work to get everything "right" on the
>vehicle but it is well worth it. He has everything that you can think of
>in
>the way of MVs and military gear. He had bridging equipment, Duces, 5
>tons,
>tracked vehicles, generators of every size, heck, I could go on for a while
>but you get the idea.
>
>Does anyone know the proper designation for this truck? A good place to
>find parts if any are needed? Manuals?
>
>Thanks again to you all, this is indeed a great list!
>
>Ed
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