Finding qualified help

thepumpguysc · May 28, 2019

When my company cut out the OT.. THATS WHEN I said, screw'm..
Nobbody sittin in a chair got their pay cut..
We used to start at 7:30 - 5.00 a built-in 30 minutes of OT a day w/ the option of taking a 30 min. lunch..
1 hrs was allotted.. So they cut THAT right out..
BUT NOT for the pencil pushers..{salary} they continued to stager in at 9:30 when 9am was THEIR start time & the REGULAR 2-2.5 hr lunches was the norm..
So ANY TIME I was asked to work OT to get a job completed it was a resounding NO..

DMiller · May 28, 2019

Everybody, shops, machine owners are looking for bargain basement prices to pay either in wages or per hour charges for repairs, not going to get better in the near future as shops close no help, as we age and leave the business or lose capability to do our own work, as replacements fail to show up and these machines continue to complicate up. The office staffs only see the bottom line, they do not see their own business mortality winging out the door.

Truck Shop · May 28, 2019

We could discuss this til the cows come home, and nothing will change. The only thing that causes major
change unfortunately is a major financial melt down. And even then it's questionable.

jSCULLy · May 28, 2019

Bls repair said:
Most people will go where the money is ,if you offer enough money they will leave where they are and come to you . If you offer the same or less no reason to leave.

agree to this. real life

funwithfuel · May 28, 2019

And they all b!tch about apprenticeship. What if I train them, and they leave? What's your alternative, beat the dead horses?
Just look at all the managers and supervisors trying to get the last tech/mechanic to get up and perform repairs.

Truck Shop · May 28, 2019

In that photo above it was a common practice to beat a dead horse in that time period.
Horse meat stew was a delicacy in those days and it was a proper way for the whole town
to socialize while tenderizing the carcass.

funwithfuel · May 28, 2019

Well of course someone had to bring up the cultural significance of the horse beating. Kinda took the wind out my sail.
Thanks though, I did not know the history of that.

thepumpguysc · May 28, 2019

I like, "the rule of thumb".. personally..{look THAT up, lol}
I coulda used THAT ONE today.. the Mrs. drove me to the dentist & back..

Truck Shop · May 28, 2019

funwithfuel said:
Well of course someone had to bring up the cultural significance of the horse beating. Kinda took the wind out my sail.
Thanks though, I did not know the history of that.

Post a photo like that and I'm going to jump on it. I have Gary Larson-Far Side humor.

thepumpguysc said:
I like, "the rule of thumb".. personally..{look THAT up, lol}
I coulda used THAT ONE today.. the Mrs. drove me to the dentist & back..

Is don't hit it while hammering? Keep it out of both body openings? Keep it out of other peoples body openings?

Who knows or why that rule popped up.

funwithfuel · May 28, 2019

You can't use a switch thicker than your thumb to whoop the mrs. My wife , when she found out what it meant, made me a simple proposition. Try it & die!
I said,"yes ma'am "

donkey doctor · May 29, 2019

As it should be. d.d.

Truck Shop · May 30, 2019

Had a discussion with the owner yesterday, he asked when i planned on retiring which was no shock to me. His future plans is to move the whole operation to another location
build a two bay shop, office and yard after I retire and the rest of the employed boomers that work there. He knows he can't find mechanics that will work the same hours that
we in the shop are willing to work now, plus he knows he isn't going to find any mechanics period. So the shop will only be basic oil changes and grease jobs. He is in the
process of setting up with the dealer to dedicate a bay for nothing but our trucks and they totally maintain the fleet. He mentioned other fleets are looking to do the same.
He knows the added cost but said it will all be passed on to the consumer in freight rates. So there you have it folks. He will have way less to inventory in parts and other
investments in the shop. And way less wages involved to operate a quicky lube for his own rigs. Society is doing it all to it's self, kind of like flesh eating eating bacteria.
The industry is eating it's self from within.

BigWrench55 · May 30, 2019

Whether you hire inexperienced mechanics or choose to take it to a dealer. All you are going to get is inexperienced mechanics. Dealers don't like to hire guys with experience. They know what they are worth.

Truck Shop · May 30, 2019

But the load is on the back of the dealer along with the warranty.

DMiller · May 30, 2019

Good luck to the owner TS
Dealers are in as bad shape and issues with manpower
As you afe well aware these new fangled garbage piles are a load of mechanical failures along with the loose nuts behind the wheels
Even service grunts are getting scarce to find or keep

AzIron · May 30, 2019

Same reason GPS grade control is taking over dirt moving and headed towards autonomous machines it wont really save any money but computers dont call in sick and a monkey can dig with GPS grade control

Interestingly tho like every other part of this industry there it's going to be a very long time before if at all some of the super technical stuff or the small things will get automated

Truck Shop · May 30, 2019

AzIron said:
Interestingly tho like every other part of this industry there it's going to be a very long time before if at all some of the super technical stuff or the small things will get automated

That's what they said in 1963 about going to the moon, and look what happened in just six years using a slide rule.

crane operator · May 30, 2019

Too bad we don't have the capability to go today. We can't even get people back and forth to the space station, have to use the russkies as our transport.

td25c · May 30, 2019

Free market has a way of correcting itself every time .

One day it seems like a good idea to let the Dealer handle all the work .

Until ya see the invoices coming in and freight rates have stayed flat .

At that point the business owner will do a quick 180 turn & hire some mechanics .

What I have noticed in the agricultural world is farmers building big shops and letting the dealer handle dealer issues like parts & warrantee work .

Every thing else gets taken care of in house .

One other point … Free Market we are all replaceable .

Feller has to make the decision at the time what's best for them .

td25c · May 30, 2019

crane operator said:
Too bad we don't have the capability to go today. We can't even get people back and forth to the space station, have to use the russkies as our transport.

Hitting the reset button on this, and the reaction to it, and hoping for a good outcome.

~Digger242j

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