Two trucks are better than none

Today I found out...they've rented not one...but two vehicles for these security people.

You'd have to know the situation here to realize why this makes the me a little crazy. And why this post will drag on a little.
For the last two winters we've been without a CBC vehicle. The truck broke down in February of my first winter here. The-powers-that-be (not our local and territorial managers, by the way) eventually decided it could be fixed, but for some reason that took until May. They chose to fix it, rather than buy a new one, despite warnings from the local mechanic and regional managers that it would die once winter set in. It did, in November...when it was too late to bring a new one up on the barge. (Did I mention we're a fly-in community?) So make that TWO winters of walking to interviews ...or settling for phone-tape, depending on windchill and deadlines.

I guess they expected us to use the taxi service. (If we ever get back inside, RANKIN and TAXI into the news archive and you'll know why I laugh maniacally when those two words are used in the same sentence.) Taxi service in this town is about as consistent as rain in the Sahara. ( My apologies to those good people who have tried to run taxi's in this town. It's not easy to keep vehicles in good running order in tenvironmentment, I know.)

So I guess it's no surprise that some people in town have taken to calling "Ike-the- Bike" the CBC Honda. And if you read the previous post, you know how reliable Ike is.

But apparently, when you work security during a lockout, you really need a vehicle each. So it can sit there in the parking lot all day. Or maybe it's for their own safety...so they get get through the dangerous rabble on the picket line.