Troops frustrated by loss of vehicles during (PCS) moves

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/08/troops-frustrated-loss-vehicles-during-moves

Troops frustrated by loss of vehicles during moves
By William R. Levesque, Tampa Bay Times, NY Times Syndication

© August 10, 2014

Some U.S. troops joke that their missing cars are at the ocean bottom. Photos of absent automobiles are posted online like the images of missing children on milk cartons. A few threatened to file stolen vehicle claims with insurers when a shipping company could not locate their cars.

"Still missing my husband's truck," Tabitha Nelson Smith posted on Facebook. "They actually called him 2 weeks ago and said his truck was here. He went to pick it up and it wasn't his!!! They were actually going to give him someone else's vehicle. I guess some poor soul on the other side of the world has our truck!"

A program that ships the personal vehicles of troops transferring between military bases, most to or from overseas, has been plagued with complaints about delayed deliveries since May 1. That's when International Auto Logistics of Brunswick, Ga., took over a government contract from a firm that had done the work for more than a decade.

IAL did not exist two months before it filed its bid for the contract, though its parent company has extensive experience shipping cars for auto manufacturers.