An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

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  1. REO6205

    REO6205 Road Train Member

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    Can you just go ahead and change the tire yourself?
     
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  3. kylefitzy

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    ###### man, you’re awfully hard on equipment. How many service calls on the last run and now this?

    The loves app has a handy feedback option. This sounds deserving of an email.

    I try to get all my on road work done at loves. The points are nice but having a National warranty on repairs is pretty handy. I’ve had a pinion seal and an axle seal both replaced and fail almost immediately. Both times different loves shops fixed it no questions asked.

    On the other hand I’ve had TA shops quit literally in the middle of a brake job and the next shift refuse to touch anything. I was stuck in their bay for 12 hours while the second shift worked on zero trucks. I now do anything I can to avoid TA shops.
     
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    Since I have been reading his threads it is somewhere in the triple digits, his service calls. :Wrench:
     
  5. keebler13579

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    I stayed overnight at the loves in teoy tx. That afternoon we got a bad storm come through with high wind. Went in to use the restroom around 1900 before bed. All the trash cans around me were dumped and some in the parking lot. Woke up around 0500 and it was the same way
     
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  6. MAMservices

    MAMservices Medium Load Member

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    If I had a driver that was in my truck turning the miles and loads that Supersnackbar produces, service calls would be the last thing on my mind. You run big miles, swap trailers constantly, you gonna have service calls.
     
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  7. BM 58

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    He just likes to get S$&@ fixed!
     
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  8. supersnackbar

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    16 year member...given some of the companies I have worked for...it's lucky that it's not higher than that. When I was at Poly when Hyatt was running the illegals in the shop, you were lucky to get out of the DFW area without some sort of issue. And at Creaffer, with there under spec'd and under maintained equipment, it was inevitable unless you just got lucky with a new truck. Most of the time when you were assigned a truck, it had just been repaired and you were the test driver to see if they got it fixed this try.


    Last run, 0...unless you're counting me helping the Rancho crew try to get those ragedy RGN's to slide (the one's that were dropped there needing repairs nobody knew about). Hell, half the repairs I fix without a service call are on trailers someone dumped on the next guy without a peep.
     
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  9. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    When you work for companies that constantly swap trailers, if you care about having working legal equipment, on road repairs are part of the deal unfortunately. This isn’t for you, I know you get it. I was only kidding.
     
  10. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    I figured you were kidding...only way to cure the dropped equipment problem is to do what COTC does and merry a trailer to a truck, but then you are live loading/unloading every time and don't get a variety of freight like we do. It's not as bad here as some of the door slammer companies I have worked for in the past...just a necessary evil I guess. Still, could be worse
     
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  11. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Way beyond my capabilities. I can re-wire, or re-plumb, but re-tire is something out of my league.
     
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