SAFETY

[joel gopan]

Many of us have Antique, Historic or Collectors vehicle Insurance, and it is asssumed by the insurer that the vehicle is restored to safe operating condition, and used for the occasional Parade or Display event. Should you have an accident involving personal injury to a passenger, pedestrian, or passenger in another vehicle, and their injury results from a flaw in your vehicle such as; poor brakes, or their head going thru a plexiglass windshield, or find that the brakes are not totally functional, or leaking fluid, or the truck is overloaded, etc., may find your coverage null and void. A local Collector recently to our parade committee that he was not contented with having to form his portion of the Memorial Day Parade on a hill, as some of his military vehicles were old and their brakes may not hold on that hill.---Hello?

[armydriver]

I do believe that satety is in the forefront of our minds all the time when it comes to our vehicles. The one thing for sure, insurance companies love to collect the premiums but hate to pay back out, regardless the age of the vehicle.
If some are afraid to drive their vehicles in parades because of the age of others, then they should be relegated to that primo spot in the parade route, behind the horses. Then they don't have to worry about the brakes just the horse manure.