muddog1975
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Awesome....don't you love that...no communication.
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This will be an interesting thread moving forward......
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muddog1975
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Nice truck, smart move... looking forward ..work wise. How long have you been mechanicing? Just curious I have almostv30 years in right now.
Communication? Hell we don’t need any of that when dealing with ungodly expensive equipment that companies and people’s livelihoods depend on.
Many a female would beg to differ. I am pretty easy LOL
33 years self-employed. Total of 41 years if I go back to when I started.
Hopefully I will get a report this morning on the 700K. One thing that always chaps my ass is the lack of communication when a dealer tech is sent out and doesn't let me know what's happening. It seems like an open checkbook operation when that happens. Although I am not an employee of this company, someone still should be informed of what's needed and the approximate costs. It's not like they would let a $300K machine sit for an expensive repair but someone should approve repairs in my opinion. I've never spent a customer's money in the multiple thousands unless someone knows and approves it. I don't know yet............maybe the tech isn't finished troubleshooting the issue? One thing I DONT want is expensive parts thrown all over this machine so I will be asking plenty of questions in a bit.
Jimbo
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^^^And this is exactly why I made the suggestion I did earlier. As an employer, I would trip over myself to hire someone like yourself who watches my money and expenses closer than I do. And you might be able to lay off the heavy lifting....
John C.
Senior Member
I've always viewed a repair project as a partnership between me and the owner or representative of the machine. I determine what is wrong and approximate cost to repair. Many times there are multiple ways to repair something and that requires communication with someone. One type of repair might give them the machine this afternoon, cost little but there are chances it will be dead again tomorrow or next week. Another fix might take a week and cost a lot but not need to be worried about it ever again. I always made the owner or rep make those decisions.
DMiller
Senior Member
Always intended to expand to larger 4WD truck when was working side work had seen 2 ton IH Utility trucks with 4WD go cheap at sales. GLAD I never got there as do not know where I would have ended up by this body age.
muddog1975
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Wow, thats a ton of years and experience. I'm 29 total years in with 3 years independent! Don't think I could ever go back for working for any one again!
The 700K report is in. In their opinion, lack of filter service.....especially on the fuel system, had caused a restriction and sensor failure on the high-pressure rail. They are correcting these and then checking the system again today.
I was supposed to look at a couple of Case backhoes yesterday for another customer when they arrived in town around noon yesterday. I spent 3 hours in the construction company's shop cleaning and sorting through crap while I was waiting on the Case customer. His equipment didn't show up til after 3 pm...........so I am looking at them this morning. In the shop I have found numerous new parts in boxes and bags, most unmarked, lying pretty much everywhere. I sorted that stuff and at least shelfed it in one place so its altogether. There were also numerous areas that had faulty parts that had been replaced lying all over the place in the shop, and outside. Most of it looked like it had been there for years and years. It's all now in the scrap bin outside. Evidently the trucking side of the company changed oil in one of their trucks the afternoon before..............they didn't clean up very well and had walked through spilled engine oil on the floor and had tracked it everywhere. 
You may be thinking to yourself "Why is he cleaning up in their shop?" I can't just sit around and need to stay busy for the most part. I'll get paid for my time one way or another.
I was supposed to look at a couple of Case backhoes yesterday for another customer when they arrived in town around noon yesterday. I spent 3 hours in the construction company's shop cleaning and sorting through crap while I was waiting on the Case customer. His equipment didn't show up til after 3 pm...........so I am looking at them this morning. In the shop I have found numerous new parts in boxes and bags, most unmarked, lying pretty much everywhere. I sorted that stuff and at least shelfed it in one place so its altogether. There were also numerous areas that had faulty parts that had been replaced lying all over the place in the shop, and outside. Most of it looked like it had been there for years and years. It's all now in the scrap bin outside. Evidently the trucking side of the company changed oil in one of their trucks the afternoon before..............they didn't clean up very well and had walked through spilled engine oil on the floor and had tracked it everywhere. 
You may be thinking to yourself "Why is he cleaning up in their shop?" I can't just sit around and need to stay busy for the most part. I'll get paid for my time one way or another.
DMiller
Senior Member
Mess leads to incidents and accidents, easier to clean and be relieved that is safer. Plus gives an aspect of what needs be pitched and what should be looked at later.
kshansen
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More than once while working at another quarry for the company I worked for while waiting for someone to bring the machine I was there to work on I would keep busy while waiting by pushing a broom in their shop.
Truck Shop
Senior Member
There isn't a sales person or anybody for that matter that doesn't comment on the shop.
{I can't work in a dump} filthy shops are a hazard and time consuming. If your spending
time looking for tools or parts your wasting time. Floors need to be swept after and while
working a job. Stumbling around in dirt, junk parts and just plain crud is depressing.
A shop will have way better performance when clean. L&I likes it too.
colson04
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I worked in a small CNC shop in 2004 that was a cluttered, dirty mess. We got a lot done, but it was like walking into a hot, dark hole every day. Parts and tooling everywhere, chips scattered on the floor. Dirty, grimy walls and ceilings from decades of machining. I moved on and ended up at Mercury Marine in 2005 in Fond du Lac, WI. The first time I toured their shop, my chin hit the floor. The floors were grey epoxy coated and shining. The walls and ceilings were a bright white with high end lighting throughout. They had hundreds of Mazaks and every machine sparkled. Work stations were clearly defined, tools in shadow boards, work benches only had current part in process on them. All parts, no matter what stage of production, were stored in organized dunnage bins specifically for that part in specific locations. A place for everything and everything in its place. That factory had a completely different feel. They were still machining parts with same brand of machines, but a completely different culture and attitude about the workplace. I loved working there, but my time with them coincided with a sharp downturn in sales so there was no long term option for me there.
Welder Dave
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Much better attitude in a clean well organized shop. Some of the larger shops I worked in even had lines painted on the floor for walkways. Some of the other shops I worked in were horrific. One in particular had steel scattered about and you never knew where to go to find what you needed. You go to one of the shop and then the other looking for the piece of pipe or tubing you need. This shop also never supplied any blueprints so you could build things. The foreman would tell what to build and if you had any questions you had to go back to him. Even worse the owner was so cheap (or worried about theft) that you had to also ask the foreman for a new grinding wheel or contact tip for the Mig welder instead of just going to the tool crib to get one. Didn't have to have 100 each in the tool crib but a few grinding wheels would certainly speed production. Half the time the foreman was in the office with the owner so you had to wait until he was back on the shop floor. Very frustrating and not efficient at all. It's no wonder this shop didn't survive. The owner was too busy counting the money he made to realize how much he was losing.
This is my favorite thread. I check new posts, wondering when the mechanic is going to find an alligator sleeping in the engine compartment, or a space alien scavenging parts to get him back to the planet Koosebane.
This could be a cool reality show.
This could be a cool reality show.
So what happens when they need that transmission to function to get them out of danger, and it shits the bed because of their abuse?
I think this attitude is spreading everywhere these days.
Welder Dave
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Just recently a Vancouver Ferrari dealership discovered a rattle snake in their showroom. Appears it climbed into the undercarriage of one of the cars when they had a group vacation. It had a green ring on its tail which indicated it was chipped and they returned it to the exact rock where it was 1st. discovered. Probably a real good thing it was discovered on the showroom floor. Still would imagine it would have startled who ever discovered it. Wouldn't want to discover it going for a test ride or checking tire pressures or something.
Rattlesnake found at Vancouver Ferrari dealership returned | CTV News
Rattlesnake found at Vancouver Ferrari dealership returned | CTV News
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