Paul said:
If you want to do some good with it have you considered joining your local 4x4 Response Network?
Tends to be very LR heavy so the more Cruisers the better
http://www.4x4response.info/
Paul:
Just thought i would say i spoke to the area rep of the Lincs and Yorkshire response group, decided to join, so sent in my joining fee and deposit for the bits they supply and waited and waited and waited.
In the finish I had to chase several time to get an answer, they confirmed they had my stuff but i still waited. In the finish i chased the top man and he sent me the strangest emails saying he was to busy to answer and how annoying it was that people only joined when it was busy.
It got rather complicated and it was clear they are very badly organised, I was not the only one having the same problems.
It seems you cant get on the call out list to help anyone until you go through "Induction" which are done at local meetings, but they dont have time to organise meetings or do the inductions because they are busy.
As its all voluntees while I waited i went through the website and found lots of errors, I also made a map (on the web) with all the responders so i could see who was near me. I was quite proud of it. While i chased membership, I send a list of the website errors and the passworded URL to my map to the chairman, asking permission to show it to other members. I even offered to fix the site errors for them as thats what i do. They were not interested, in fact i had am email from the chairman saying he was to busy to "even look".
Strange considering he had time to play a word game on the forum but no time to look at my stuff.
Even though I felt like saying "get stuffed" I wrote back saying sorry that i was bothering him and maybe it was best i cancelled my membership rather than cause him more stress. He sent me back anther weird email blaming the local rep who in fact had done nothing wrong, so I finally withdrew my membership with the main reason being that i found it annoying that a responce group could not bother top respond, I even gave them my fees as a donation to show no hard feeling.
Then the snow came, and the control room called me, i explained I had not been through induction and was in fact not a member. They then agreed to remove me from the "On call list" and said they would get the chairman to call me.
To do some good i offered my land cruiser to someone who's father was very ill in hospital 60 miles away, so the family could go visit him on his death bed in bad weather.
A week later in the very early hours i was in bed when i had another call from the 4x4 responce control and I had to explain the whole sorry story again and that my 75 was being used
I still wait for the call from the chairman that he was going to make "When the panic was over"
I have since called Simon Bentley - Chair of the Trustees of 4x4 Response (National Network) and explained who i am and how i wanted to help and he said I am the type of person they need and he would speak with the local group chairman, but nothing has happened.
So, I am sorry to say locally 4x4responce my findings are that once you are a member and have been accepted all is OK but to get to that point is almost impossible or maybe they just dont want Land Cruisers.
. We have been married for 35 years but this time she has made it clear that either the truck goes or she will, god i am going to miss her. I do hope she comes back before i run out of things to wear 
