Skelton-Cline calls for ‘hard stop’ to purchase of gov’t vehicles
During the Tuesday, June 16, 2026, episode of Honestly Speaking on ZBVI 780 AM titled ‘What We Know Is Not True Part 3’, Skelton-Cline said, “I am seeing all kinds of government vehicles everywhere, anytime of the day, by the grocery store, by the rum shop, [all] hours of the night. I don’t know why we are buying so many vehicles.”
He said if he were put in charge of something, he would have called for a complete moratorium on the government buying any more vehicles.
A costly venture
Skelton-Cline added that it is not just purchasing the vehicles; the government is responsible for fuel and maintenance. “Not only that, government doesn’t have any insurance on these vehicles.”
Skelton-Cline asked government workers not to get angry at him for these statements, saying that the VI right now is in “economic crisis mode”.
“We need to hit a hard stop…How are we affording these stuff? In the best of times, ok, I’ll back off, but we’re not in the best of times right now….How do we think that this is sustainable?”
He called on the public to join him in sending this message to the government. “We need to bring a hard stop to the purchase across the board of any more vehicles and a system that is enforceable in place for the proper use, utility of these vehicles,” he stated.
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24 Responses to “Skelton-Cline calls for ‘hard stop’ to purchase of gov’t vehicles”
The above topic issue is only only of the many failures of his leadership know how. For as long, I hope not long, as the current government Cabinet is in power the need for the useful need for utility and other vehicles must continue to be bought, but used correctly, I hope.
Asking for a friend
The first courses of actions are :
1. Establish a transportation policy
2. Establish inventory for departments functional needs
3. Establish strict procurement/acquisition procedures with central procurement entity
5. Procure and rollout a software transportation management program, capturing important metrics
6. Establish a strict no personal use program
7. Establish a strong and effective preventative maintenance management program
8. Establish a vehicle pool from which employees can check out vehicles for temporary use. It can be a Paygo system.
9. Establish strict take home vehicle policy, ie,a) 24/7 availability need, b) emergency needs, c) extended work requirements, etc.
10. Establish a lifecycle for vehicle, construction equipment, etc, types. Auction at end of lifecycle .
11. In lieu of providing government vehicles to some employees, pay some employees a transportation allowance.