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FedEx Named In What Could Be One Of The Largest Odometer Fraud Schemes In U.S. History
Jalopnik ^ | Lawrence Hodge

Posted on 06/25/2023 10:42:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/25/2023 10:42:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Really? I mean rolling back speedometers is as American as bait and switch!


2 posted on 06/25/2023 10:45:58 AM PDT by Spok (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”)
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Do not give this much credence, IMHO...


3 posted on 06/25/2023 10:46:12 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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“...which vehicles had their odometers replaced.”

It’s interesting that they couldn’t just hack the odometer electronics. In fact, the main vehicle computer kept track of total miles irrespective of what the odometer read. They are not very bright not knowing that the main computer was continuing to track total miles and thinking they could get away with the scam by changing the odometer. (if that is indeed correct)


4 posted on 06/25/2023 10:46:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: SuperLuminal

Why?


5 posted on 06/25/2023 10:47:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Spok

I didn’t work for Ferris Beuller.


6 posted on 06/25/2023 10:47:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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There are two possibilities. One is that the lawsuit is bogus. The other is that FedEx isn’t paying off the necesssary woke groups enough for protection.


7 posted on 06/25/2023 10:50:15 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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When I was in high school, we used to unscrew the odo shaft from the transmission of my buddy’s dad’s Delta 88. My friend’s old man used to check the mileage before and after letting him take it out for the night. We also flipped over the air cleaner cover so it made that Rocket 350 sound badass. Oh, by the way, I now drive for FedEx.


8 posted on 06/25/2023 10:50:53 AM PDT by KingLudd
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The Memphis mentality is ingrained in the FedX employees that are rolling back the odometers on the old trucks. Memphis and its environs are hotbeds of chop shops and vehicle crime. Every small town near Memphis has a chop shop. Car theft is so bad that churches have to have guards in the parking lots during service because the criminals jack cars there.
9 posted on 06/25/2023 10:53:27 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Amazing how flipping the air cleaner made them sound.


10 posted on 06/25/2023 10:55:23 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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Somebody looking to shake down FEDEX.


11 posted on 06/25/2023 10:56:29 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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Meeeeeeeeehhhhhhhmmmmmmmrieeeeeees!

Here’s hoping you eventually turned the corner on basic ethics! LOL


12 posted on 06/25/2023 10:56:42 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: KingLudd

Back in the seventies, we had the same situation, but just drove around parking lots backwards!


13 posted on 06/25/2023 10:59:42 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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Someone that knows what to look for can spot a vehicle being advertised as having 50k miles, if it actually has 150k. There are lots of clues.


14 posted on 06/25/2023 11:01:23 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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When I was a teenager, all the cheap used car lots had funky paint jobs and odometers that read about 40k miles.


15 posted on 06/25/2023 11:03:43 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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I don’t know the particulars of FedEx’s truck purchasing but having driven for them I do know they keep their trucks for a long time.

I’ve personally driven tractors with over a million miles.

I’ve driven vans with well over 200K.

I don’t think it would make sense to rollback the odometer just to get a better deal for it when sold.


16 posted on 06/25/2023 11:04:34 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Guns don't kill people, Democrats do. )
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I had to replace an electronic dashboard on a car and when the new one was installed the car all of a sudden had 40k fewer miles.


17 posted on 06/25/2023 11:11:27 AM PDT by Round Earther
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Given the size and history of FEDEX, plus having seen the movie, I have a difficult imagining a “speedometer” scandal...

IAC, here behind enemy lines in Maryland, the only important FEDEX “scandal” is the stadium where the Redskins play...


18 posted on 06/25/2023 11:22:55 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Fedex when you absolutely positively have to roll back the miles!


19 posted on 06/25/2023 11:32:14 AM PDT by xp38
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My Grandfather tried it in the 1950's.   He put the odometer cable on a fan motor and attempted to run it back.   It story in our family was that it would take twenty years to run it all the way back.
20 posted on 06/25/2023 11:49:23 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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