Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 21:11:45 -0500
Reply-To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Tires
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---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Another interesting use of old tires is they are made into Stall Mats.
>
It's a
> great durable product for the floors and over the engine lid area, for mats
> under foot in your garage area, etc etc...Cheap, too.....
So, where do we get this marvelous product?
>
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:59 PM, 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
> >>
> >
> >
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David McNeely
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