European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Deals on wheels How your car gets photo by Dave Didio an inspector watches As new cars Are driven aboard a by Allen Cowan staff writer Bremerhaven the conversation began while Johnnie Banks was filling out yet another form to Send his car to the do you know what happens to your car after you leave a bystander asked the Supply sergeant from they put it on a boat and ship it across the right Banks in sure there Are but in not sure what they How do they get it on the boat he was i dont Banks i just want them to get it How they do that is up to Banks is one of Many people unaware of How their cars get Banks car is being sent Home through the military transport office in the Day before he dropped off his in late the same stevedores he entrusted his car to dropped a from a High above the and a Crane is one of three ways his car May be loaded onto the boat bound for the Banks is talking about a Blue Chevrolet Monte Carlo he values at car shipping is a multimillion Dollar fleets of Volkswagen and other euro Pean cars sit in Bremerhaven and Emden awaiting voyages across the  go by some in floating garages built especially to transport others in much older vessels used for All sorts of but one Way or the All the cars must get in the oldest loading a Crane picks up the cargo and lifts it onto the deck or through a that called known around the docks As theres or in which cars Are driven on and off the and there Are cars Are driven into huge which Are then the boxes Are lifted by Crane on and off the private shipping firms use arguing its Safe and most the military uses Lolo and arguing there All but conceding that Lolo and containers Are not As commercial shippers Are right on the safety about 2 percent of cars shipped commercially arrive in the states the Captain responsible for the military car shipping program estimates that 20 percent of the cars he ships arrive in the states that comparison is in a since most com Home Merciall shipped cars Are there sent without hubcaps and other removable which Are installed by stateside the military removes cigarette floor tool kits and mirrors and seals them in a which in turn is sealed and locked in the radios can disappear and antennas May get on top of the military antiquated shipping methods create More Chance for a car driven on and off a ship is handled Only a car loaded by or sealed in a is handled up to eight in the right after world War car ship Ping was a fledgling an there were no special ships built just for car and loading methods seemed cars were driven into the nets were hoisted above the the cars were lowered into the holds of the the first major improvement came with the invention of a scissor like clamping it locks around the sus Pended from cables attached to an overhead in the Frame is connected by separate cables to the As the Crane lifts the the scissor device grips the tires from pads Between the car and the cables minimize four men hold guide wires to reduce the car is lifted above positioned Over the lowered below pushed to a parking spot and lashed the car is unloaded the same commercial shippers Call the method inefficient and the military uses it because its the Only Way to get cars aboard some of its older cars shipped by Container Are pushed into the Box by a tractor and lashed to the blocks in front and Back of the tires Are secured by nails driven through the blocks with air larger containers hold two cars and a cars headed to the West coast through military transport go by Container to the East where there loaded onto trains bound for Oak land or san cars put on boats by cranes and those put into containers have their batteries removed and their fuel drained from the tanks before Roro is the and some say safest method of loading the car is driven onto the lashed and the keys Given to the its that a car is hoisted aboard a ship by file photo Page Xii photo by Terry Baker Dock workers push a Caf into a Container that will be loaded aboard ship and sent to the the stars and stripes May 1085 photo by Terry Baker containers that Are Able to hold two cars Are among methods used for shipping automobiles to the May the stars and stripes Page Xiii