Policy: Golf Cart

This official policy document describes behaviours required of IT staff when using our golf cart.

Questions about this or any other IT matter should be directed to the IT HelpDesk.

We have a golf cart

We now have a golf cart, just like the cool kids. It's assigned to ITS, so anybody in the umbrella is permitted to use it, but the key will live with HelpDesk since they're the most likely group to need it. Various others have keys.

Stuff, not People

The cart is for the transportation of equipment and is not to be used just for the transportation of people except in extraordinary circumstances. Walking is good for practically everybody.

Basic Rules

The two fundamental rules to which drivers of the IT cart are held are these:

• Use it as if it were a car, and
• Be very, very courteous.

Elaborations on the rules

OK, maybe that's too brief...

• Drive only where cars would go, not on sidewalks, grass, etc..
• Obey the rules of the road (stop signs, right side of the road).
• Use hand signals to indicate upcoming turns.
• Yield to anything non-motorized, particularly people on foot.
• Only full-time adult staff of IT may drive (no students).
• Nobody may ride in the cargo area: the back is for stuff, not people.
• When leaving the cart, park as close to the curb as you can, staying out the way of all sidewalks and roads, blocking nothing, and being very much out of the way.
• When the cart's parked, engage the parking break.
• If you park on a hill, turn the wheel into the curb so that if the brake fails the cart still won't go anywhere.
• If you're not in the cart (even for a moment), neither is the key.
• Report any maintenance issues immediately to HelpDesk.
• Don't over-load the cart (yes, some rules are really obvious).
• If you put something valuable in the cart, you're responsible for watching it. If you put in more than you can carry, make sure someone can keep an eye on it while you load/unload.
• Try to pad bare equipment that goes into the back: it's really bumpy back there.

Fine, but where is it?

The cart lives in the parking deck on the lowest level: enter through the OUT gate that's been cut short, take a left, and go all the way around back to the spaces where no cars go. Park by the "No Parking" signs.

Really? I thought it was near the office.

If the cart's near Sale, park it up the hill past the sidewalk entry from the greenhouse, preferably where it levels out a bit. You'll be directly next to a No Parking sign, but that's OK, and it's better than having the thing in the loading area outside Sale/Purchasing where it would get smished by the garbage guy, the logistics folks, and that 18-wheeler that brings us number-10 cans of beans.

It runs on petrol, right?

Just like a car... If it runs low on fuel, contact the main Physical Plant office and let them know you need golf cart juice: they'll send someone to meet you at the maintenance shop by the stadium with the key to the enormous gas can.