FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Coupled with a faulty part the manufacturer never wanted to cover originally!..... getting it taken care of, I'll probably have to come back next week sometime. I'm sure it'll fail again in a year/year and a half, I'll roll with it then, but they're dam sure replacing it now!!!

 

Warranty work pays on time, every time. Not many flat-rate techs in the HD Truck segment like you find in most Automobile shops, so it never mattered to me if it was warranty or not. Granted, I've been out of it for 9 years now, but a dealer can adjust labor rates with the OEM, usually a max of twice per year. If techs write good stories, document with pictures and you have a decent Warranty Administrator, then recovering time on Warranty repairs isn't difficult.

 

When I worked for the chevy dealer in council bluffs I got paid the same either way .

 

hard enough wheeling a 53 footer around sometimes. Can only imagine what pulling a 57’ would be like

 

Not that much harder out west I pulled 57' trailers for Costco while I was at Navajo, but they didn't have tight docks.

 

used to be a lot of em in CA in the central valley.... at that time they only pulled em with cabovers, usually day cabs too

 

That’s because they still had to meet the kingpin rule and they couldn’t be over 65ft overall length.

 

A lot of them were roller floors for hauling empty cans

 

Well I know what I’m doing for the weekend. I swapped trailers with the other driver where he lived at in a typical Kansas tiny town. Ran that load down to Sanger, TX and dropped it last evening, then ran down to gatorade in Dallas to grab a load to Edgerton. After I make a pit stop by the house later today then drop in Edgerton, i’ll swing over to the ACT yard to grab a trailer headed to Pennsylvania