Thread: Have Trailer, Can't use it... Bad News
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Posted by Dodd Stacy.

Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.

Posted on 2/18/2000 11:56 AM MST


In Reply to: Have Trailer, Can't use it... Bad News posted by Andy Baker on 2/18/2000 8:01 AM MST:




: FIRST has decided (actually, FIRST's insurance provider) that teams like us who were planning on bringing a trailer full of nice equipment cannot do so. They decided that it was too difficult to control, and too risky to let happen this year.

: From what I heard, there are many insurance and legal issues that cannot be handled before the Competitions arrive. FIRST said that this might happen on 2001, but not 2000.

: FIRST knows that this year is not a good year to implement this policy, and they will need to accomodate the extra fabrication demand with their machine shop.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!: 3.Wear your safety glasses in the pits, 'cause there will be some major 'precision alterations' happening all around you.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It may not have been easily foreseeable, but this is becoming a cascading situation. The ironic upshot of FIRST's 2000 ruling against downtime fabrication of spares, compounded by insurance company lawyer-think, is that the pits are going to be MUCH MORE DANGEROUS places to be this year. Dean, we chuckle each year at your lawyer joke. Where is the ENGINEERING judgement behind this unnecessary situation? This can be changed for the safer - and should be - by a simple stroke of the rules pen. It can happen now, with no harm done to any team or person.

Dodd


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