One of our drivers got into a minor fender bender last month when he rolled our van into another vehicle’s bumper at about two miles an hour at a stop sign.
When the insurance adjuster showed up he determined that our vehicle was totaled. We laughed about this because the van looked the same after the accident as it did before. Plus we’d been driving it for a year while it looked that way.
One reason TLC has survived for 22 years is because we know how to economize. We receive no funding from the government or elsewhere. We earn our money from service fees and our small businesses.
Rather than going into debt purchasing new vehicles, we buy used and own some 35 of them.
We buy most of these for $1500-2500 from the Arizona Surplus Property Management Office (SPMO). Many have over 100,000 miles on them and are approaching their limits. They are vehicles that have had a hard life with the Department of Corrections and other state agencies
Many have dents, rusted paint, or seats that are blown out - or at the best, well-worn. But even though they're ugly they serve a purpose for us – which is transporting our clients to jobs, appointments and so forth.
For us it’s about function – not about looking good.
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