How much does road service for a tire run?

Gotta pay for the down time...lots of sitting between calls, until it gets busy...then you're running around like a chicken with your head cut off trying to get it while the gettin's good.

 

$150/hour, from the time they leave the shop to the time they get back PLUS $1/mile round trip.

Popped a steer tire at a customer. Called TA road service. 38 miles 1 way. The service call, plus a steer tire equaled an $1100 repair bill. Went to harbor freight and got a 20 ton bottle Jack and the big sockets and a breaker bar.

Was pulling a load across 10. Stopped in Grand Bay. Realized I had a front wheel seal leaking. I already knew TAs wheel seal policy, but it was Sunday, and most shops in the area are closed. Went by the Loves in Evergreen. They have the same wheel seal policy as TA, so I topped off the fluids and kept going. Checked the fluid levels every hundred miles. Slow leak. Made it to SC. Unloaded Monday, and found an independent shop. Waited 3 hours to get in, but the wheel seal and new pads cost $250. And they were a real shop so they don't have those stupid corporate policies.

"What policy, Six?"

The one where if they deem something wrong with the spindle, they cease all work, and make you tow your truck out. If you have a front wheel seal leak, save time and possible frustration and money and take your truck to a REAL shop. Otherwise, when they call the cops because you threaten to whip some slacker's arse when they tried to tell you that you can't work on your truck in their shop or have an outside service truck on their property, you're the one that's in trouble with the law.

 

I picked up a trailer at our drop yard. Trailer won't air up. Leveling valve blowing air out as fast as it can bring it in. Company driver, I call the company. Final bill was close to 900 dollars, including a 100 night call out at a volvo dealership because they were the only ones with the part in stock. When the guy is finally done, he tells me "don't feel bad, I had a callout the other night to Weed (close to where I was) that ended up being over 800 dollars. For a mud flap."

First time I tore off a mudflap I had just gotten into my truck. Didn't have any tools hardly. I think it took me almost two hours trying to get the rusted on bolts undone with just pliers, and to bore new holes in the new mud flap with a knife instead of a drill bit. I can't even imagine sitting at a truck stop that sells all the tools you could ever need to change a mud flap and still going through an 800 dollar call out to get the job done.

 

A $1,000 call for a patch in a tire and a $600 call to move a good tire and rim to one that had blown out.