abandoned vehicle removal program "a success"

[waawaawah]

Update on burned out car on South Glenwood. Gone next day of my post. Maybe social media is effective?

[dan d]

All fees go into the general fund,including the 17 k that the master gardeners collected
For years in hard work ,while volunteering, sad.

The general fund, a local black hole?

Dan D
HPP

[Durian Fiend]

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Originally posted by dobanion

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Originally posted by glassnumbers

A metric **** ton of stuff washes up on our shores down here at South Point, plastic fragments, rope, plastic trash. Tons of it. It's always there.

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Kamilo is world famous as "the garbage beach." The currents perfectly send all the floating crap right there. There is a community clean up once or twice a year.

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It's probably fed from the circulation of trash in the North Pacific subtropical Gyre, between the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch and the Western Pacific garbage patch.

[terracore]

"Each auto registration includes $12 towards disposal. I wonder where that money went?"

I have an old farm truck that I use on public roadways maybe once a month for dump runs, etc. If you total up my registration, insurance fees etc, it costs me at least $20 per trip every time I drive it not even counting gasoline or maintenance. It's good to know that I'm also paying $1 per use to go towards disposing of other people's vehicles. (not).

ETA: insurance question! If I'm driving my truck about 12 days per year, why is it insured for 365 days? Is it possible for me to just activate my insurance the day I use it, and then cancel it the next day? Would USAA dump me?

[dan d]

I belive its a month at a time. Might be cheaper to sell the truck, and pay $50 a haul
Instead?
Aloha


HPP

[Durian Fiend]

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Originally posted by dan d

I belive its a month at a time. Might be cheaper to sell the truck, and pay $50 a haul
Instead?
Aloha HPP

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Or possibly replace truck with a trailer. Of course, must pay a silly registration fee for the trailer then. Anyone know how much this costs? If based on weight of trailer it would be hard to justify a price gouging, but I'm sure DMV could figure out a way to do it.

[kalakoa]

activate my insurance the day I use it, and then cancel it the next day?

Most insurance policies also apply to a vehicle you don't own "when driven in place of your regular vehicle". Merely transfer the title and registration to "a friend" and you'll be covered whenever you're "borrowing" their truck.

There's also the option of Hawaiian Kingdom plates; as the Kingdom isn't part of the US, vehicles with Kingdom registration should obviously be exempt from all US rules and laws.

I've long wondered why we can't have services in the subdivisions, thereby making them reachable via private roads, making it possible to take out the trash with a quad, thereby saving time while burning less gas...

[terracore]

"Or possibly replace truck with a trailer."

When I looked the trailer registration fee was comparable to the truck, and it still requires safety inspections.

[dobanion]

About Kamilo, latest cleanup:

http://www.kaucalendar.com/news/10_18p10.html

[Lodestone]

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Originally posted by Lodestone

There were four or five trashed vehicles lining the south end of Beach Road, but they magically disappeared last week. Not sure who to thank.

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Now back up to a half dozen trashed/burnt vehicles again near the south end of Beach Road. Not a bad place to take vehicles you wish to demolish and burn; nobody down there to see the eyesores. What puzzles me is... why? Bored teenagers?