ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
ORIGINAL: sproulman
good info.if i had my way the only people hired AT pgc would be WCO/LAND MANAGERS,rest, there is door.
if the PGC would just go to smaller fuel efficent vehicles they would save MILLIONS on insurance,repairs, tires, gas/oil.
i know because our group saved our employeer bigtime on vehicle repairs.
justdifference on size of tire can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
thats not including the lost labor/delay and tow trucks because of rusted nuts etc.
You have made that comment several times in the past and I haven’t responded to it but I think I will now.
You are wrong about smaller vehicles saving money. I remember when we were issued smaller vehicles and they cost more not less money to keep in operation. The full size vehicles ever get as good of gas mileage as the smaller vehicles. My personal vehicles is one size smaller then my state vehicle and my state vehicle gets better gas mileage.
Even the Expedition I am presently issued is hardly big large enough for all the equipment we have to haul according to the garages that do our vehicle repairs and lightens. We just have to haul too much stuff around so much of the time, like what I have in my vehicle right now. I have two tire chains and should have all four in there. I have one tow chain, that gets used a good bit with all this snow. I have the required first-aid kit and fire extinguisher a box of road flares and a shovel. I also have an evidence kit, a tranquillizer gun and immobilization equipment box. There is a set of jumper cables and several ropes. There are rubber gloves, a law book, citation holders and various other paperwork containing in two brief cases. Then there is the standard radio two issued long guns. How much room do you think that takes up. Then right now we are into tagging turkeys so I have two bags of corn for about 100 pounds or so in their right now and when I go to trap turkeys there is a good bit more gear to do that including a large box that I have to haul on the deer rack.
The garage is all the time tell me that the suspension on these vehicles is not heavy enough for all the gear we haul. Then figure that on many days I will have two or three deer or maybe a four or five hundred pound bear on the deer rack.
Come time to do hunter/trapper education I have to take almost everything else out of my vehicle just to get my hunter education equipment all in the vehicle and we just got more of that that I’m still not sure I am going to be able to haul all in one trip.
Now add the fact that there are times when I have to hook up a trailer and pull that loaded with equipment behind my vehicle when we are doing defensive tactics training or if I am moving a skid type bear trap, or for that matter just a bear trap with a bear of several hundred pounds.
If you were to see what all we have to do with these vehicles you certainly wouldn’t be thinking we needed a smaller one. We have tried that and believe me smaller vehicle aren’t a good investment at all for the vehicle needs we have, they don’t save money they cost more money in both gas and repairs.
R.S. Bodenhorn