RAT/ Ready Auto Transportation

You are not going to like this. You asked if it rolled, braked , and steered. It DID when you loaded it. How can anyone predict an issue when you get to unload point. That is the risk you take hauling INOP's. You were lucky to get $20. You would not have gotten it from me. If you are not equipped to deal with problems you should not be messing with non-running vehicles.

 

Me........I would of dragged that piece of crap off my trailer with my truck. I've done it. You guys can have ALL them inops though! I've been done with them for several years now. Had a foreign guy cancel a check on me once because he said I wasn't equipped to do the job because I couldn't get his car off my trailer because it was missing a wheel.

 

Yeah, a lot of the guys buying the insurance cars are former Eastern-Bloc types, who expect you operate like all their buddies do. I'm not dragging a piece of jagged steel all the way down my aluminum decks to get you POS off my trailer. They'll tell you the have a way to unload when you take the car, and then you get there and it's "Just slide it off with decks!" Roll off? Fine. Slide off? Ain't happening! I've had them ask me to use another car on the load to drag it off. SMH

 

Bottom line is this, you made a decision to do something that didn't turn out the way you thought it would, in the end you learned a lesson, at some point in life it happens to all of us, and it didn't cost you a dime, I wish I could say that.

Education costs money, I don't care whether you got it in some fancy school or out here on the road, what you do with that education from here on out is up to you.

But honestly, you got off cheap, BTW, back when I hauled inop, I carried a floor jack and dollies.

 

I think you mean well overall Slay. Am not sure how long you have been in business, but the vast majority of gray area are the inops. I try to avoid them for the most part as the buyers/customers are unknown as to the level of damages or the customers capability to load/unload. I took one to MN & the order stated the buyer could unload. He had three guys & a $20 harbor freight hand crank winch puller.

That said, regardless of how long you have been in business. Those that have posted above have experience going back to...when were car haulers invented? My point, they are good guys & personally have learned much. Am sure you find the same if you stick around.

 

I guess for me, when I agree to an in-op, I expect the worst, I have a far greater problem with contracting a vehicle that the broker makes NO mention of any damage, and sure enough, when you get there it does run and drive, but instead of a 20 min. load and go, it takes you an two hours to do an inspection, to tape up the windows, strap down the hood and deck lid, air up the tires, and strap the doors shut.

Then of course you have to constantly shuffle your load so that the new Lexus you picked up isn't parked behind the "running/driving WRECK, just incase some piece of broken plastic decides to become dislodged while running over rough roads at interstate speeds.

Just so you know, the broker will not pay you any more for this wasted time/ motion either.


Stan

 

Boy - I hope he never has to haul an 'evidence' unit from police impound - you know the type - not runner - split block - square wheels - trees growing up thru the bottom - rubber or rims sunk into the asphalt - something that is on contract and has been awaiting a capital case behind a fence for 7 years ..........

Anyway, the guys are right, Slay. Boils down to good days and bad. Bitter and the sweet. You only remember the bad days when your having one of 'em.

 

Now that Speedy has chimed in, along with K.T. and Slant, did y'all notice LBZ used a lot of words to call us 'Old Farts'???