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Date:         Sat, 25 May 2013 21:06:34 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Tires
Comments: To: raceingcajun <raceingcajun@COMMUNICOMM.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <2604FD78977949F299F19724766FC356@MAINFRAME>
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I've never really understood how the fee is supposed to work. The customer pays it when he buys the new tires, and goes merrily on his way with the tire. No one requires that he turn in a tire to buy a tire. No one comes around to collect the tire from him when it is worn -- he can just keep it and stack it behind his house if he chooses, where it can fill up with water and breed mosquitoes. How does the fee keep tires out of the ditches? If the customer got it back when he turned in the tire, it might work, but I suspect it would need to be much larger for that to make a real difference.

mcneely

---- raceingcajun <raceingcajun@COMMUNICOMM.COM> wrote: > I was selling tires at my shop when this first started taking place in > Louisiana. A State Trouper came around and set us up with all the > bureaucracy required paper work, signage, etc. His expiation was, the old > tires needed to have a value placed on them to keep them out of the ditches > etc, as he said; "kind of like the old pop bottle deposit". Where the amount > of $2.00 per tire came from I'm not sure. Anyway, as a dealer I had to pay > the $2.00 per, up front when I bought the tires from my wholesale supplier. > That was shown on the invoice as a State mandated environmental fee. So I > passed it on to the customer. Ok, $2.00 isn't much when you sell a set of > tires at $300.00, plus any front end/brake work you may get. (which BTW you > don't get much of from tire sales. Seems most folks think of tires as a > necessary evil only and any spin off work is gouging)! Another thing, we had > to pay $00.50 per to dispose of them. No one was buying them at that time, I > don't know about now. > Anyway Don I don't know your State laws, but you might make an anonymous > call and ask permission to do this Heinous act you are perpetrating :^) > Also, be damn sure to not get caught burning a tire in Louisiana. I > think it can get you a $20.000.00 per tire fine!!! That will keep them out > of the ditches for sure. > > > Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Tires > > >They have a semi-trailer there that they put customer's take-offs > > in, probably when it gets full, they haul it away and sell em to someone > > who reclaims the rubber for something...Anyhow, Sundays the tire store is > > closed but the tire trailer sits there, open with lots and lots of dead > > tires in it...So, thinking I probably have given them thousands in profits > > anyhow, I don't feel bad about sticking one or two more in that Take-off > > trailer on a Sunday when nobody is around. If I got caught I'd probably > > do more jail time than the head of Bear-Stearns Derivitive fault swap

-- David McNeely


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