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Bluebag Media
Community help
requested to replace Honor Guard van
GREENVILLE – “We have two options,” said Veterans Honor Guard member
Fred Dean. “We can get a retired transit bus owned by the City of
Greenville or we can get a new one.” Either way, the old one has to be
replaced.
Dean was referring to the van he drives to carry Honor Guard members in
parades and to ceremonies for veterans who have passed away. “It looks
great inside; it looks great outside,” he said, but the undercarriage
is rusting out badly. “It’s too old… the undercarriage has a bad case
of cancer and the van needs to be replaced.”
The current van is a ‘95 bus with a ’94 chassis. Because of seating
capacity, only a commercially licensed (CDL) person can drive it.
The Greenville Transit bus will likely be around an ’06, Dean said, and
it will be well-maintained. At the same time, it has to have 106,000 to
110,000 miles on it before it can be released. “There are two coming
up. We can probably get one of those in the spring,” Dean added...
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