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And in the very back of my patrol Tahoe, since I had a lot of room, I built a
giant sized custom drawer thing, using an old desk that had been left behind
in the old city hall that was being demolished. It was super heavy but it held
all my gear nicely. When I became the K9 Handler and needed more room in
the back I gave the thing to another officer, who put gray office carpeting on
it, and he kept it for a long time.

Interestingly enough, most of the officers eventually decided they didn’t love
the Tahoe that much; the speed was governed at 100 mph and they were pretty
big vehicles; a little too big to try and maneuver in the police parking garage.
Several officers learned the hard way that the concrete support columns in the garage had absolutely no give when bumper
pressure was inadvertently applied at various speeds. For the record, I never once bumped into a wall or a column in that garage.
The main gate door, yeah..but I was not the only one and it’s far harder to hit a moving target like that instead of a huge column..

It took a few years of begging but eventually we got hi-vis rubber bumpers mounted on the corners of some of the more
troublesome columns.

Most of our Tahoes started to break down at around 80,000 miles; engine and transmission and electrical problems of all kinds.
Mostly because we were doing virtually all city driving and like most cops, we were turning the engines on and off a couple
dozen times per shift, and the models we got had not been upgraded enough to withstand the rigors of a lot of stop and go
driving constantly.