frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye) (07/11/85)
The mail "jeeps" (AMC or the .5 ton AMGeneral) in Lisle don't even have plate brackets on them. I don't know if the post office doesn't have to buy license plate anymore or not. They used to display plates on the post office vehicles but the numbers on the government type plates were always the same as the number painted on the truck itself. Does anyone know if the post office has been released from the requirement of displaying plates on their vehicles? These trucks never leave town anyway so maybe that is a stipulation or something. Any notions out there? 'Nother topic: A friend of mine seriously considered buying an old retired post office "jeep" a couple of years ago. It seems that someone contracted to buy the played out jeeps and rebuild some of them. The idea was to take parts off the real (machanical) junkers and put them on the ones that still ran good, give them a paint job and sell them. (right hand drive and all.) I told him a friend of mine runs a garage. He takes care of the post office vehicles here in town. I didn't like what I saw (this mail jeep sagging as it was raised buy the floor hoist, alias grease rack.) in these jeeps and told Big Bob (prospective jeep buyer) that I couldn't recommend latching on to one of those junks. I just get the idea that those jeeps are pretty well beat when the post office turns loose of them. Maybe that answered the question above. They just don't think them junks will stand the extra weight of a license plate(-;). Crushed down, they might make a nice paper weight though...... Neither rain nor sleet or a played out jeep...... Keep the greasy side down & the painted side up, T. R. Frye
hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (07/16/85)
Tags (licence plates) are a State requirement. Federallyowned vehicles do not have to comply with state requirements, and do not have to carry tags. The federal government puts tags on their vehicles for their own convenience. Many military vehicles also do not have tags. Drivers of government vehicles do have to have drivers licences when on public highways. Herman Silbiger