Improved services means the days when service members spent long hours trying to process their vehicles are gone forever, Helfrich said. We still have some partial service DoD processing sites that are not held to the one-hour requirement in Japan, Okinawa, Greece and Bahrain. Contractors for those facilities are hired locally. The new system handles movement of vehicles for military personnel and civilian employees, including nonappropriated fund employees and DoD Dependent Schools system teachers. They are limited to one vehicle that doesn't exceed a volume of 20 measurement tons.
Customers pay for each measurement ton over the limit when shipping a vehicle at government expense.
Some large pick-up trucks and sport utility vehicles exceed the limit, for instance, he noted. Temple Jones and contractor agent Donald Myers inspect Jones' car for damage at the Baltimore Vehicle Processing Center. Jones, formerly assigned to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., was shipping her car to Germany. MTMC Photo by John Randt. The extra cost depends on the destination, but exceptions may be granted for medical reasons.