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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 |
Police truck auctions are held regularly in every police department trying to get rid of their surplus vehicles. These auctions are one of the best markets for quality police vehicles that may have already lived up to its use for our men patrolling the streets.
These types of auctions offer you one of the best deals around. That is because the police and other federal and state agencies take pride in having well-maintained vehicles. It would be more likely that you will have for yourself bid on many well maintained used police trucks at prices that you may not be able to get at any other second hand dealerships.
Police truck auctions are usually held several times over the course of the year because there is always surplus inventory lying around. Aside from aging (2 years and above) police vehicles to impounded and seized cars, there are always plenty of units to get rid of to make way new inventory and to free up some valuable storage space. In such auctions, you might even be able to find slightly used or even some fairly new vehicles to bid on, if you are lucky.
Police truck auctions offer the chance to check out good quality vehicles that you may be able to get at prices way below retail. But all the great deals will depend on how good you can bid for it. It is a gross misconception that every item at an auction can be yours at very cheap prices.
On the contrary, some items may even go over their fair market value. Credit this to some overeager but inexperienced bidders. There are some instances that bidding wars at these police truck auctions can get out of hand that the vehicles can end up priced outrageously. So it is a good idea to come well prepared.
Just like any other auction, the action starts when the bidding begins. But if you are after great deals in these auctions, the action for you starts way before the actual auction day. Prepare yourself by getting to know what is required to be a part of the bidding public. Registration is usually required for such auctions with each bidder given his own number to put some order into the whole process. This is usually free in most government held public auctions.
Inspection Day is sometimes also scheduled prior to the actual auction date to give the bidders a chance to see the auctioned vehicles more closely. On a typical Inspection Day, the bidders can check each vehicle inside and out. Bidders are also allowed to start and give the engine a run through, but that is as far as they can go over each vehicle. Moving the vehicles in any way is prohibited.
In all government auctions, catalogs are also handed out beforehand to the bidders, which become their guide on the order of the vehicles put on the auction block. These catalog also contain some important information concerning each vehicle including model, color, year of manufacture, vehicle history and other special features
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Friday, June 13th, 2008 |
Garbage trucks will no longer be allowed to pass through Taguig City unless they are registered with the local government, Mayor Freddie Tinga said yesterday.
He said the city council is set to pass a measure to prevent “outsider” contractors from dumping trash in vacant lands instead of going to the proper landfills.
“We believe that regulating these vehicles that carry waste materials will be the perfect way to prevent private entities and even other cities from making Taguig their dumping site,” he said in describing the ordinance authored by Councilor Delio Santos.
As chairman of the committee on environment and ecology, Santos said that all types of dump trucks, 10-wheelers, trailers and similar vehicles used for hauling would have to be registered and given clearance to pass city limits.
The measure requires payment of P2,000 registration fee per vehicle for a non-transferable sticker specifying the details of the registration and serves as an identification pass.
The registration is renewed yearly, according to Santos, who adds that local police and traffic enforcers will be authorized to stop any dump trucks without the sticker.
The erring truck driver will be fined P500 for the first offense, P1,000 on the second, and P2,000 for the third time, on top of impounding the vehicle.
Garbage haulers under contract with the city hall will be given official trip tickets, Santos said.
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 |
An empty Dump truck struck a highway overpass early Monday morning, causing the vehicle to roll over several times before coming to rest in the northbound lane of Interstate 95.
The truck’s driver, Benjamin Lamb, 24, of Brewer, was trapped inside the vehicle for several minutes but suffered only minor injuries, according to Maine State Police Trooper Josh D’Angelo.
The accident snarled traffic on the northbound lane of the interstate for about four hours near the Hogan Road exit, although D’Angelo said it could have been much worse.
“We were able to divert traffic off the interstate via the Hogan Road exit and then people could just get right back on,” he said. “It happened right at the overpass, so we didn’t have to shut down a big stretch.”
Lamb was driving the truck, owned by Roof Systems of Maine of Bangor, to a job site in Orono around 7 a.m. when he approached the Hogan Road overpass.
Normally trucks of that size pass easily underneath the 15-foot overpass, but, “It looks like the body of the truck rose as the driver was coming underneath the overpass,” D’Angelo explained.
The bucket part of the truck broke loose from the impact but Lamb couldn’t maintain control of the vehicle and it rolled over multiple times before ending up on its roof, the trooper said.
Lamb had to be extricated from the vehicle and was taken by ambulance to Eastern Maine Medical Center but suffered largely bumps and bruises, according to D’Angelo.
Lee Corro, vice president of Roof Systems of Maine, said he was relieved to hear that his driver was not seriously hurt and said the accident appeared to be a freak thing.
“At this point, we’re not sure what caused the back part to raise, but I haven’t had the chance to talk to [Lamb], so we don’t know what happened,” Corro said Monday afternoon by telephone.
The vehicle was insured, both for its own damage and for the approximately $75,000 in damage caused to the Hogan Road overpass, he added.
Dale Doughty, head of the Maine Department of Transportation’s regional office in Bangor, said he was told the accident bent one of the overpass beams, but the bridge did not receive major structural damage.
“It doesn’t take much to cause $75,000 in damage, believe it or not,” Doughty said.
Trooper D’Angelo said he doesn’t think speed was a factor. No charges will be filed.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008 |
General Electric said that it has tested a hybrid version of a haul truck, the kind of giant Dump truck that’s used at a mine or to haul away mountains of dirt.
The system works just like a Toyota Prius, more or less. The engine feeds electricity to a battery that runs the drivetrain. During braking, the spinning wheels act as a generator for the battery.
The batteries in the hybrid off-highway truck is the same sodium-based battery used in GE’s locomotives, according to the GE Research blog.
The hybrid haul truck wasn’t just announced in honor of Earth Day.
Rising fuel prices are pushing truck manufacturers to adopt more efficient and clean technologies.
Volvo is developing a range of Mack trucks with the goal of making them carbon neutral. A hybrid Mack dump truck can save between 25 percent and 30 percent on fuel costs.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 |
Some of Ray Wilson’s earliest childhood memories of visiting his grandmother are driving past mounds of trash on her land outside the town of Blackfoot.
Trees and ravines along the dirt road made the 1.5-mile stretch an ideal spot for illegal dumping.
Tired of seeing the trash, a team of Blackfeet tribal, county and city workers, along with student volunteers, removed about 200 tons of garbage from the site as part of a renewed effort to clean up and prevent illegal dumpsites on the reservation.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
The folks in Highland Hills have issues with their new neighbor.
Destructors Inc. has run a concrete crushing plant at Interstate 20 and Interstate 35W for about 10 months, and local residents say that they can’t stand the noise and dust.
The company got what was supposed to be a temporary permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality this year. Now, the company is seeking permission to keep the plant there permanently. A decision could come as early as next month after a 30-day period for accepting written comments.
“We definitely do not want it,” said Moses Davis, president of the Highland Hills neighborhood association.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
A FORMER Muar municipal councillor has blasted a company responsible for garbage collection for its poor services which he claimed has turned Bandar Maharani into a rubbish dumping ground.
Ho Su Mong, who was the council’s works and development committee chairman for nine years, said Southern Waste Management Sdn Bhd (SWM) had neglected its obligations with poor service.
He said among the complaints was that in the Bakri new village, the garbage trucks would only appear once in 10 days. In other areas, it is between three and seven days.
“With such poor services, residents are forced to dump their rubbish along the roads.
“This has turned the town into a rubbish dump,” he said at the Muar district Coffee Merchants’ Association’s dinner here on Saturday night.
Ho, who is the association’s chairman, said residents could no longer tolerate shoddy services especially now when the roads are dirtied by leachate from the leaking trucks.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
have waited to see if a truck driver would write concerning your series “Big rigs, big risk” (Oct. 21-22), but all that I have seen was the letter from the retired Massachusetts Department of Transportation worker.
As a retired truck driver with approximately 35 years experience, I think there are some items that need some further exploration.
The articles continuously refer to dump trucks and tractor-trailers, when it seems that you were really going after the dump trucks. But when you do that, it seems that you have to get all trucks in some way.
Truck drivers are subject to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations from the U. S. Department of Transportation, parts 40, 380, 382, 383, 387, 390-397, 399 Subchapter B, Chapter 3, Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Just like other federal regulations, the IRS in particular, they are lengthy and complicated.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
“When a truck unloads its garbage, it sounds like a battle is going on in the wadi,” says Umm-Ahmed Musalah. And she knows whereof she speaks: Her house is located right at the entrance to a dump in the Palestinian village of Na’alin, about three kilometers north of Modi’in. In the two years since the site began operating, a big mound of garbage has accumulated on top of the wadi, and its outer edges are steadily encroaching on the vegetable garden and small orchard behind the house. Some of the trees have already dried out.
Even as she speaks, another truck dumps its load - construction waste this time - with a thundering noise, just two or three hundred meters from Musalah’s garden. A cloud of dust rises skyward, momentarily obscuring the tile roofs of the Hashmonaim settlement on the nearby ridge. In the course of about two hours on the afternoon of Monday, November 19, eight trucks added their loads to the mountain of garbage.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
For the second time this week a pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle in Hyannis. Rescuers were called to a rainy scene on Route 132 by Cooke’s Seafood just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday where a person had been struck by an Isuzu Rodeo. The victim was taken to Cape Cod Hospital by Hyannis rescue with what were believed to be non-life threatening injuries. The woman driving the SUV stayed at the scene. Barnstable police are investigating the incident. At right police check for evidence. A piece of the vehicle was on the ground (inset). A woman struck by a car on Main Street early Sunday is still in critical condition.
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