For how a shop can hold your truck for repair legally?

Like that is gonna stop anyone for more than 4min.

 

It was all on a good course, a good start, could have been a matter of time. But Googles, Amazons, Facebooks and other amorphic nobodies don't want anything mighty.

 

This thread topic worries me. If a man makes an investment, his life and well being depends on it and then one of those ####ty fuel pumps they make goes bad, he can't get it nowhere and sits idle while the bank could not care less, then this is not a way of making a living. You say, be proactive and find you own part - is it aftermarket? If so, what if they say, they can't do it under the warranty that you paid 8 grand for?
I also worry, if it goes on like this, that all those little ####head lowlifes involved in this business, I can see them all the time - the ####heads that don't mind steal your fuel, a tire with a rim or a parking spot - would not mind popping up the hood and steal the part from you....I worry about that too.

 

My company truck a 2020 freightliner cascadia has fuel pump go bad. I thought cool a couple nights in motel on company dime. It took freightliner 15 days to get new fuel pump and they upgrade fuel filter they added to truck. Company had another truck towed and delivered to me. Sad thing 15 days for fuel pump on DD13. I was happy it was their truck and not mine.

When I had my own truck it was in shop 13 days. A simple air compressor oil leak tuned into head gasket leak. When they get head off they find burnt piston and the pistons liners were set wrong from factory. Detroit Diesel took 3 days to decide how to fix engine under warranty. Then took dealer 10+ days to get parts and take engine apart and put back together. Engine was under warranty but you still have make truck payment and motel bills and pay everything else when truck it sitting not making money

 

Covid completely screwed up Chinese manufacturing, and parts are incredibly difficult to find.

I wanted to buy a John Deere backhoe, and three dealers told me that they had no new inventory, and that the wholesale channel was empty. They didn't expect to get new equipment until July or August. Deere couldn't get parts from China, so they couldn't build anything.

Same with ham radio gear, dishwashers, and even tires.

 

We’ve been quietly sold out over decades, but the lust for cheap #### most of us don’t need started the trend.
Now we are a disposable economy and everyone wants everything cheap. So we reap what we sow. Me personally I try to buy American made and try to buy quality
So it lasts me decades. Hell my wife and I drive our cars 400+ Thousand miles and I am almost 50 and still drive the same automobile I drove in high school.
Things were coming back to America but now we have a fool. either way we are doomed

 

When did things start coming back to America?

And the fool left.