FarraFan!
How many miles do they pile up on those cars of yours before they roll em out of your fleet? Curious, do they keep "beater" cars around for huge numbers of miles for "light duty" like transporting miscreants, etc? Or are they all considered front-line vehicles and buy/sell/maintain them all the same? I notice in a lot of the New England towns where I visit in Massachusetts where they don't do a lot of high-speed/interstate patrolling (not their jurisdiction, really), they put a lot of miles on them, 200K and climbing. The sheet metal and all is, I dunno, ok, but you can hear the suspensions rattling going down the road and the interiors are kinda beat in them, too.
My cousin has a friend who's town police officer with a landscaping company that does her lawn, and he checks in on her property while out of town, stops in to yakk on slow days, which is how I happened to here it. He says it's all routine keeping those cars in service with all those miles. He's not aware of what they put in them oil-wise, but they have to go to the townie's maintenance garage every 60 days in any case.
Speaking of Jiffy Lube, Massachusetts State Police, at least on the North Shore of the Boston area use..JIFFY LUBE!!!
Go figure.
[ May 23, 2006, 08:32 AM: Message edited by: toocrazy2yoo ]
Yeah, I was talkin to yoo! I figured you weren't a J-L worker!
How many miles do they pile up on those cars of yours before they roll em out of your fleet? Curious, do they keep "beater" cars around for huge numbers of miles for "light duty" like transporting miscreants, etc? Or are they all considered front-line vehicles and buy/sell/maintain them all the same? I notice in a lot of the New England towns where I visit in Massachusetts where they don't do a lot of high-speed/interstate patrolling (not their jurisdiction, really), they put a lot of miles on them, 200K and climbing. The sheet metal and all is, I dunno, ok, but you can hear the suspensions rattling going down the road and the interiors are kinda beat in them, too.
My cousin has a friend who's town police officer with a landscaping company that does her lawn, and he checks in on her property while out of town, stops in to yakk on slow days, which is how I happened to here it. He says it's all routine keeping those cars in service with all those miles. He's not aware of what they put in them oil-wise, but they have to go to the townie's maintenance garage every 60 days in any case.
Speaking of Jiffy Lube, Massachusetts State Police, at least on the North Shore of the Boston area use..JIFFY LUBE!!!
Go figure.
[ May 23, 2006, 08:32 AM: Message edited by: toocrazy2yoo ]
