LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Newton County coroner says there have been times he’s had to transport bodies in his personal pickup truck, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Coroner Cody Middleton told the Dem-Gaz he’s had to use the bed of his Chevy Silverado to take the bodies to the Boone County morgue in Harrison. The truck doesn’t have a shell; the bed is open.

“That is definitely not a preferred method or mode of transportation,” Kevin Cleghorn, the Saline County coroner and president of the Arkansas Coroners’ Association told the paper.

Because of that, the county is hoping to get Middleton and official work vehicle.

A former Newton County justice of the peace went before the Newton County Quorum Court earlier this month requesting a work vehicle for the coroner’s office. Court members made the suggestion to purchase an SUV from state surplus.

The county judge says he’s working on a solution, according to the Dem-Gaz.