Summer surge brings business to Dallas VPC
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DALLAS (USTCNS) --- As the days turn hot in early summer, the workers in the Dallas Vehicle Processing Center get ready.
The summer surge is ahead.
The second busiest center in the United States is soon to be overrun by service members sending or receiving the vehicles.
The Dallas center ships an average of 7,000 vehicles a year as part of the Military Traffic Management Command's Global POV Contract. As many as 16 car carriers visit on a single day. The center's volume is second only to Hawaii.
Bill Antonelli, Vice-President, American Auto Logistics, Inc., shakes his head in amazement at the numbers.
"The fact is, we handle the vehicles the same way all over the world," said Antonelli.
Antonelli's Monroe, N.Y., firm is the prime contractor for the contract which ships an average of 75,000 vehicles every year for MTMC.
Off the dusty streets of Texas State Highway 121, about 15 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, the customers come - and keep coming.
Ron Pepka, Manager, and his four clerks and eight inspectors are ready.
"The cycle starts about the 1st of May when things really begin picking up," said Pepka. "June, July and August are really busy. I've had 65 people in one day."
"Customer service is what drives the whole operations," said Pepka, who manages a center for contract subcontractor Unified Aircraft Services, Inc.
Why is the center so busy?
"We cover a big area," said Pepka. "We cover all of Texas.
"We have service members bring their vehicles from as far as Wichita, Kansas; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Albuquerque, New Mexico."
Among the center's customers April 3 is Staff Sgt. Anthony Magiera, of the 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Hood, Texas.
Magiera, a tracked equipment mechanic, is shipping out to a prepositioned equipment center in Brunssum, The Netherlands.
This is the first time Magiera has shipped a vehicle overseas.
How did it go?
"Great!" said Magiera, a veteran of Bosnia peacekeeping duty. "These guys were outstanding."
Inside, clerk Michelle Wederstrandt is helping a new customer: Lt. Col. Mark Simpson, of Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene Texas.
Simpson is headed for a new assignment: Anderson Air Force Base, Guam.
"This is working out very well," said Simpson.
United Aircraft Services operates other centers in Atlanta; Charleston, S.C.; Orlando, Fla.; Seattle: St. Louis; and Guam.(FROM MILITARY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS).
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