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Re: [oletrucks] DMV Story

To: "W&D" <haist@jps.net>, "Old Truckers" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] DMV Story
From: "Billy Gibson" <bgibson@internetwork.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:19:08 -0500
I would think Jerk was probably a condition of hire?
HooT58
----- Original Message -----
From: W&D <haist@jps.net>
To: Old Truckers <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:43 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] DMV Story


> I was frantically working on my '39 pickup in order to be able to join a
> friend
> with another '39 in a group of funky old vehicles in the local
Independence
> Day Parade.  Last Friday the cab and front clip had been cleaned up and
> primered and the bed was off for sandblast, primer and new wood.  I took a
> break from the tools and trailered the cab and chassis out to DMV in
> order to get the registration and the mandatory VIN verification.  After
an
> hour in line they told me to bring the vehicle to the VIN verification
area,
> which I did.  After 10 or 15 minutes of waiting there, a DMV person comes
> out, looks at the cab and chassis and says "it's not finished yet, we
can't
> do this."  To make a long story short, and after showing the supervisor
the
> factory spec option of "cab and chassis" she still refused to look at the
> VIN
> but issued me a temporary registration and requires re-inspection after
the
> bed is in place.
>
> I'm applying for Historical Vehicle status which is a class by itself, not
> auto, not truck.
> Needless to say, if I had a temperature gauge on my body, it would have
been
> pegged out.
>
> Can someone tell me this:  Do you have to be a jerk before you're hired by
> the DMV
> or do they learn that on the job?
>
> I have registered several of these old timers over that past few years and
> EVERY
> time it's a new hassle.  I know they're hoping I'll just take my old truck
> and just go away.
>
> <><
> Whitney Haist
> Orinda, CA
> Chevy Trucks: 2-'46s & a '39
> www.jps.net/haist/artdeco.htm
>
>
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