I have been serving as an advisor for a Rocket team in a small college. Over the past several years, I took students to various launching sites and competitions using either my personal vehicles for small trips or vehicles rented by the college for longer trips. So far, no accidents have occurred on any of these trips.
This year, we started experiencing obstacles from the college administration regarding the safety of our projects. A newly hired lawyer from the school's "Risk Management" department started questioning our practice in terms of motor transportation and storage. She insists that we shouldn't transport students and motors in the same vehicle (especially the college-rented ones). Instead, we should reserve a cargo van or U-hall for motor transportation. Since the college doesn't allow students (employed or unemployed) to drive college-rented vehicles, I then become the only driver for any of our trips. In this case, it will be impossible for me to drive 2 vehicles to transport both the motor and students for the same trip.
Another obstacle comes from the motor storage. She claims that it is not safe to store motors in metallic cabinets.
So here are my questions:
1. Where can I find documents/articles discussing the safety of motor transportation? I want to provide evidence to this lawyer to demonstrate that it is safe to transport both motor and students together using just one college-rented passenger van. She won't be satisfied with a simple statement such as "this is what other people are doing with their motors". I searched the forum and didn't find much information on this. It will be helpful if someone can give me a direction so that I can dig and search.
2. Is it necessary for us to invest in a $5000 magazine for storing our motors?
Thank you!
This year, we started experiencing obstacles from the college administration regarding the safety of our projects. A newly hired lawyer from the school's "Risk Management" department started questioning our practice in terms of motor transportation and storage. She insists that we shouldn't transport students and motors in the same vehicle (especially the college-rented ones). Instead, we should reserve a cargo van or U-hall for motor transportation. Since the college doesn't allow students (employed or unemployed) to drive college-rented vehicles, I then become the only driver for any of our trips. In this case, it will be impossible for me to drive 2 vehicles to transport both the motor and students for the same trip.
Another obstacle comes from the motor storage. She claims that it is not safe to store motors in metallic cabinets.
So here are my questions:
1. Where can I find documents/articles discussing the safety of motor transportation? I want to provide evidence to this lawyer to demonstrate that it is safe to transport both motor and students together using just one college-rented passenger van. She won't be satisfied with a simple statement such as "this is what other people are doing with their motors". I searched the forum and didn't find much information on this. It will be helpful if someone can give me a direction so that I can dig and search.
2. Is it necessary for us to invest in a $5000 magazine for storing our motors?
Thank you!