If the total weight is over 26001 pounds, a CDL is necessary. Also would need to be aware that some buses (notably school buses) are not geared for highway use , limiting their speed Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:01 AM, Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

Sometimes, an old bus can be bought for little money. One could easily be gutted and fitted with anything we could arrange to showcase in it.

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 8:45 AM Bruce via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Jeff: Consider scaling back the idea. Instead of any sort of vehicle (the major cost, especially considering insurance, licensing, maintenance, storage, repairs, etc.), consider putting together some portable containers or crates, possibly modeled upon the ones used by professional musicians on road tours. There are lots of ways to do this, but one way would be to have two displays in one crate, connected by hinges on one side and clasps on the other. (Putting this hardware on the corners would offset the displays by 90 degrees, should that matter.) Place the crates on folding tables, trestles, or intrinsic fold-out legs to raise them to a useful height. Now you just need a vehicle to carry them in, and if nobody in the club has one, rent it. All the complications of a club owning a vehicle (and they may be considerable) are avoided this way. Bruce NJ On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:03 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

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In all seriousness, yes, this was an April Fool's joke, but it had some truth to it. Erik Klein, the VCF president, has contemplated this idea and brought it up a few times and we joke about it, but he really wants to do it and I feel like the rest of the national board does too. The idea does have its merits with "bringing the artifacts to the people". The difficulty of course is the cost, building and maintaining of such a vehicle. We would love to do something like this, but we don't realistically see it happening without a lot of time, effort, money and dedication. ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:54 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote: We have been planning to have a mobile museum for a long time and Covid-19 has inspired us to implement this plan faster. At first we were looking into getting a bus inexpensively because a lot of the schools needed the extra cash, but we found a great partnering program in our investigation. We have partnered with Tesla for funding so we were able to get an electric bus. So will be renovating our new bus into a mobile vintage computer museum! We still have to decide on which computers we will have in this museum and periodically change them out. This is a great chance to be able to take our museum *to* the schools instead of the other way around. Plus it is Covid-19 regulation compliant with a limited number of students on the bus at one time. Many schools will be having more cash available for programs like this due to the Covid-19 relief package passed by Congress, so they will have money available for extra programs like ours. Over the next few months we will be retrofitting our bus and hope to have it ready by September. Other fun ideas are that we will serve period specific snacks to visitors including pop rocks, kool aid and twinkies, etc. ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org