First day at work

"Slant6" (slant-6) 05/20/2016 at 11:56 • Filed to: None

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And I get to use a company vehicle! It’s actually a state owned Ram 1500 so that’s cool. Yellow state owned plates and everything. I’m the only person on my team comfortable driving something so big (I learned to drive in a Suburban).

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 12:00

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I love driving company vehicles. Last summer I worked for my town in the public works department, and I was assigned a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD with a dump bed as my truck. It was the largest thing I’ve ever driven.

E90M3 > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 12:03

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This used to be my work truck. Thing was massive

BKosher84 > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 12:08

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Hahahaha, you plebs!

I used to drive one of these at my work.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 12:17

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My job last summer and possibly this summer had me driving a Gator.

WRXasaurus > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 12:30

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I’ve driven one of these around a shop. It was terrifying.

StingrayJake > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 12:32

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You started a job on a Friday?

Jonathan Harper > WRXasaurus 05/20/2016 at 12:37

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...what shop?

WRXasaurus > Jonathan Harper 05/20/2016 at 12:57

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The Diesel Equipment Shop at the mine I work at.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > WRXasaurus 05/20/2016 at 13:24

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You win!

Urambo Tauro > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 13:26

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Heh. One place I used to work at immediately hooked me up with a Chevy truck that had a manual transmission. Apparently they’d been looking for someone that knew how to drive it.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 13:26

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Our work truck (2012 2500 HD with Duramax), it’s actually pretty darn nice to drive as long as you have enough room to turn. Oh the power, so much torques.

Slant6 > StingrayJake 05/20/2016 at 14:04

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Yup. I get to move in to their housing today too.

StingrayJake > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 14:23

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And housing??? Be honest... you’re actually in a North Korean labor camp, aren’t you?

Slant6 > StingrayJake 05/20/2016 at 14:55

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University Housing is my employer. So kinda.

StingrayJake > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 15:13

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RIP :(

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > WRXasaurus 05/20/2016 at 15:33

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When you say around you mean around the outside of the building, yes?

WRXasaurus > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 05/20/2016 at 16:22

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Yeah, I wasn’t about to back it out for sure. I just drove around the shop. It’s a huge shop.

ranwhenparked > Slant6 05/20/2016 at 21:09

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Neat. I have regular use of a (Dodge) Ram 1500 as a company truck as well, except mine is a ‘93 with 274,000 miles and various things wrong with it, so I don’t take massive pleasure in the opportunities.

Jack Does Cars > Slant6 05/22/2016 at 15:50

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Why does NC have two different colors for state owned plates? Buses, police cars, etc., have orange ones while those Chevrolet Uplanders and Ford Taurus’ with no badging on them, other than, “state owned,” have yellow plates.

Are there certain qualifications on what gets a yellow or orange plate?

Slant6 > Jack Does Cars 05/22/2016 at 17:14

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Yellow is state owned orange is local municipality.

So local cops, school buses, county vehicles, and the fire department have the orange plates.

State agencies, like the motor pool in Raleigh for use by state employees, the state universities including their police departments, the Department of Public Safety, Department of Corrections, and the State Capitol Police use the yellow plates.

The State Highway patrol uses standard First in Flight plates with the prefix SHP and their rank number. These plates are also stamped with the year and replaced annually.

Slant6 > Jack Does Cars 05/22/2016 at 17:16

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The orange ones don’t actually say state owned. They just say NC permanent.

Jack Does Cars > Slant6 05/22/2016 at 19:05

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Very insightful, thanks. I know the Wake County Sheriff still uses the black Z06 on I40 near RDU as a pursuit vehicle, and that has SHP plates. Probably because incognito.

Slant6 > Jack Does Cars 05/22/2016 at 19:07

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That’s curious.

Jack Does Cars > Slant6 05/22/2016 at 19:36

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...or I could be mistaken and it could be an SHP car just operating in Wake County. Still curious.

Slant6 > Jack Does Cars 05/22/2016 at 19:40

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If it’s a Corvette it’s probably Wake. Last time I saw it it had a red numbered first in flight plate.

Jack Does Cars > Slant6 05/22/2016 at 19:49

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I saw it at the auto show in February, at the police pavilion at the NC Auto Expo in Raleigh, as it is there every year.

Speaking of the red numbered plates, my TrailBlazer has them. Only red plates I’ve seen in a long while.

Slant6 > Jack Does Cars 05/22/2016 at 20:01

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All cars registered 07-09 had them. I’m still looking for one for my collection.

Jack Does Cars > Slant6 05/22/2016 at 20:27

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I plan on getting a novelty plate (MEMEMAN is the incumbent nominee), and I’ll let you have the red plate if you want it.

Slant6 > Jack Does Cars 05/22/2016 at 20:29

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Cool. I’d appreciate it. But if you want a special plate I’d stay away from a personalized one. $30 a year is expensive. Get the Watermellon for $10 a year.

Jack Does Cars > Slant6 05/22/2016 at 20:48

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MEME MAN, tho. The Watermelon plate is pretty fantastic. The prevent litter plate is pretty great, too. Oh, and we can’t forget the Ford Racing plate on a Chevrolet. Perhaps the shag dancing plate?