Talk:Fleet vehicle/Archive 1

Miles

Well, I need to disagree with the hundreds of thousands of miles a rental car is supposed to have before it is sold. I have heard that cars are kept for no longer than 30000 miles because they become too expensive as far as maintenance is concerned. I myself never had a rental with more than 12K miles on the meter. :-) And also the sabotage needs to be backed up by a quote to make it credible. So we should consider revision of those parts! I am going to add on to the article after that. -- Boereck 18:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, this isn't an article about rental vehicles so much as it is about fleet vehicles. I can only give you my own experience, but many of the ambulances I drove at work had well over 100,000 miles on them, several had more than 200,000 miles, and I remember one had 257,000 and change. For rentals, well, yes, if you rent from Avis or Hertz, you're unlikely to get a car with high mileage, at least in the 48 contiguous states. But I once rented a 25-year-old U-Haul - I don't remember how many miles it had on its odometer, but I'm sure you can imagine that after a quarter century of hauling everything but the kitchen sink, the truck wasn't pristine or low-mileage. There are also companies such as Rent-A-Wreck that tend to have slightly older fleets of passenger cars, though these cars may not approach the 100,000 mile mark.

For sabatoge, I don't have any peer reviewed articles (I haven't looked), but again, from my own experience, those ambulances suffered for the perceived crimes of the company - never anything major, though I remember one or two stereos being smashed; mostly it was just ball point pen graffiti on the steering wheel, headliner, sun visor, etc. Some of that was probably also boredom, so perhaps sabatoge isn't the best term. I also seem to recall notations in my car's owner's manual that "fleet service" vehicles required more frequent oil changes --Badger151 07:17, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't agree with you because your comment is based on your experiences rather than definitions. So you should keep doing objectively. ok?

Commercial fleet

What are commercial fleets ?. --Mac (talk) 08:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikilink Executive Order (United States)

Wikilink Executive Order (United States), or Executive order. 99.35.14.165 (talk) 04:30, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Why? EO 13514 seems relevant, but the general concept of an executive order is not. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:27, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

There isn't a link to Executive Order on s:Executive Order 13514. 99.109.126.73 (talk) 23:13, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Exactly. There shouldn't be. And there shouldn't be one, here. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:16, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

What? Why not, Art? 99.181.134.134 (talk) 05:57, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Because it's tangential; there is no benefit to the reader in knowing what an "Executive order" is in general, only (possibly) about this particular executive order. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

What if the wp reader doesn't know what an executive order is in this specific case? 99.19.45.187 (talk) 05:55, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Why should the wp reader care what an "executive order" is in this specific case? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 10:41, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

And how would we know what the WP:Audience cares about, Art? 97.87.29.188 (talk) 01:12, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

A good way to bet would be that if you care about it, then the target audience does not. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:28, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Not following you, Art. Be aware of Wikipedia:Personal attacks, Wikipedia:Threats of violence, Wikipedia:No legal threats, etc ... 97.87.29.188 (talk) 01:38, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm assuming good faith, which requires that I also assume incompetence on your part. In general, if you need to see something, then our target audience, who has a basic knowledge of English, does not. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 07:37, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

(od) For example, in contrast with California's statutory Instruments, example ... http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17008 99.19.45.160 (talk) 02:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Nice contribution User:Ronz. 99.181.131.215 (talk) 00:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)