USTRANSCOM Directs Survey Of Service Members' Vehicles At Contract Staging Facility

The commander, U.S. Transportation Command, has directed site survey teams be sent to privately owned vehicle (POV) staging facilities next week. This is the latest in a series of steps to restore confidence of service members and their families in the POV shipping process.

The site survey teams will focus on verifying the location of service member vehicles in the POV supply chain, as well as observe and evaluate location capacity concerns.

These actions will be taken as a result of information gathered during multiple site visits conducted by USTRANSCOM representatives.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Guemmer, USTRANSCOM’s POV Fusion Cell team leader, said, “After visits to several vehicle staging facilities by senior members of the command and reviewing numbers provided by International Auto Logistics, the Fusion Cell determined significantly increased contract surveillance during the contract transition is necessary.”

The site survey teams will be at the vehicle staging facilities for about one week to conduct contractual oversight in order to gather additional data regarding contract performance for the POV Fusion Cell.

The information gathered by the teams will help USTRANSCOM validate IAL’s data and understand more fully the company’s supply chain. “The teams will not be doing IAL’s job, but provide additional contractual oversight, which is a function of contract administration,” said Guemmer.

USTRANSCOM’s increased focus on IAL’s supply chain and its contract compliance will lead to more accurate information for service members. Better data will lead to better accountability.

This latest action reinforces USTRANSCOM’s long-standing commitment to service members and their families. According to Guemmer, military moves are stressful enough, and service members must have the most accurate information possible about their vehicles and a concrete plan to move those vehicles to final destination.

“We have service members waiting on delivery of their vehicles past the required delivery dates, and it is unacceptable. Their issue is our issue. We are treating each service member’s vehicle as it were our own,” said Guemmer.