Girl Scout Cookie Challenge

HOW MANY CASES OF GIRL SCOUT COOKIES WILL FIT IN YOUR VEHICLE?

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The following chart appears in our 1999 Troop Cookie Managers Guide handbook. We realize that whoever created this chart was trying to do us a service by preparing us in advance. We will know what to expect when we drive to Cookie Station to pickup our troop order. Please study this chart for a minute or two, and see if these figures look reasonable to you!

How Many Cases Will Fit In A Vehicle:
These numbers are based on one driver and no passengers.
VEHICLE:	NUMBER OF CASES:
Compact car or 3-door	23
Hatchback or small wagon (fold-down rear seat, using space between seats)	25-30
Mid-size (6 passenger) sedan (space in trunk, using back seat)	35
Minivan/Blazer (8 passenger)	60
Full size station wagon	75
Standard pick-up truck	80
Van (with seats)	150
Van (without seats)	200

Take The Cookie Challenge! Now we know that if you are reading this, it means that you must have had experience in selling Girl Scout Cookies! What we are looking for here is to record "your" experiences with the transportation of your troop cookie order. Or...just how many cases of Girl Scout Cookies can you get in your car, van or truck? You know the story. Your troop sells 150 cases of cookies and you are off to Cookie Station to pick them up, bring them back to your gararge, and count them out for the girls in your troop. The odds are good that you do not have a troop of twenty-six girls and drive a Yugo, but we will conceed the possibility! The idea should, and probably does, occur to you that there may be a problem in getting those 150 cases into your car! You have your Assistant Leader follow you in her mini-van after removing all of the seats from it. You have your husband meet you there with his Grand Prix, but you are still wondering if they will still all fit! What if it is raining when you have to pick them up? What if you have to make several trips to get them all? You can sort of see the stress building up and you learn to recognize that look all over the face of a first-time Cookie Manager walking into your Cookie Station and seeing the mountains of boxes stacked there! But a lot of you are old-timers and have had the cookie experiences before. This is your chance to share those pearls of wisdom with new leaders and cookie managers. You have hauled those cookies before, so you already know what to expect. You know how to get them in and get them home and get them sorted! Our hats are off to all of you for the tremendous amount of work that this involves! Now, please share your secrets with us. How do you make it happen? With your assistance, we can fine-tune the chart above for those following in our footsteps!

Ground Rules: You just know that we have to have some ground rules to this challenge, and so here they are:

It does not matter which of the cookie companies your council is using, as long as we are talking about Girl Scout Cookies and no other products are being loaded at the same time...just Girl Scout Cookies!
The cookies are assorted! They are not all cases of Thin Mints or all cases of Samoa's, or whatever, but they are a typical assortment of all of the brands your troop has sold.
You had to buy them in case quantities and now you have to "load" them in their cases! You cannot remove boxes from cases to stuff under the seats and in glove boxes, and such!
All of your cases of cookies must be counted "inside" of the vehicle. In other words, it's no fair counting luggage racks and any other external methods of loading that you might employ.
If you are counting your cases in a pick-up truck, we have to assume a standard stack height equal to the roof of the cab compartment, and no higher! You may tell us if you are using a long or short bed.
It's really not likely at all, but we will assume the rule from the chart above...that you have no passengers. Geesh, we all know you brought three Brownies and the family dog with you to cookie station! But for our purposes, they all had to walk home, because your vehicle was loaded to the gills with cookies!
It's a great idea, but we are not counting trailers, U-Hauls, School Buses or any other unusual vehicles that you might bring to Cookie Station. We are interested in cars, vans and pick-ups only!
It should go without saying, but just for the record, there will be no smooshing, stomping, crushing, flattening, or otherwise making the cookie cases smaller for space packing!

Challenge Entry Information: Please E-Mail the following information needed to compile the results of this survey. Please enter now! The more feedback we can get on this will determine the reliablity of the data collected! Send us the following:

Your name (First name only).
Your council name.
Your vehicle: A. Year, B. Make and C. Model.
(Example: 1996 Ford Aerostar Mini-Van)
The number of cases of cookies you have successfully loaded.
Any comments you might have.
(Example: "I had to remove the rear-view mirror to get that last case inside!")

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How Many Cases Will Fit In A Vehicle:

These numbers are based on one driver and no passengers.

VEHICLE:

NUMBER OF CASES:

Compact car or 3-door

23

Hatchback or small wagon (fold-down rear seat, using space between seats)

25-30

Mid-size (6 passenger) sedan (space in trunk, using back seat)

35

Minivan/Blazer (8 passenger)

60

Full size station wagon

75

Standard pick-up truck

80

Van (with seats)

150

Van (without seats)

200

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