maintenance
A couple of things to straighten out here.
I can assure you that the USFS doesn't use prison inmates to maintain those. They are either maintained by local commercial vendors, or in some rare cases by Forest Service Mechanics, though there aren't many of those left, so most of the work is performed by dealers and local vendors.
The schedule for maintenance is a blend of Forest Service Standards, Manufacturer Recommendations and as needed preventative maintenance and repairs. All fire apparatus goes through a once a year tip to tail inspection that's pretty rigorous.
For some reason I can't pull the records for that truck, they may have been purged from the database already. But I can tell you that I know the forest where it came from, and who was in charge of maintenance at the time and he's a very competent individual. Total maintenance on that truck was about 98k over its lifetime.
As far as why it was sold, there's a lot of potential reasons, but it looks to me like that one was sold simply due to age and mileage, the forest service sets a standard for how long they will keep certain classes of vehicles, and on trucks like that it's generally 10 years or 150k.
As far as how it's driven, the only person that knows that is the driver.
Mike
