Stevens Transport aviary

#5 a fellow mark martin fan? Or something diff?

 

Yep a mark fan. The old man still enjoys life

 

Look for truck 9209. He's a big Martin fan. In fact he has a Martin license plate on the front of his truck.

 

I think it sucks that he got stuck with lance mcgrew this year.

 

Rounding thru the countryside today. Repowered my last two drops to an empty in Richmond last night. By the time we finished with the Stevens Gandydance at the last drop, I couldn't finish my break in time to be at Walmart at 0415.
Picked up a Nabisco load headed for Morris. Repowering that tomorrow morning for a load to Ogden.
Phew!
I-64 thru the Appalacians sure is winding!

 

Repowers = bad load planning. Stevens seems to have more than anyone.

 

Yep most of the time I agree, repowers are do to bad planning. Other times it is a lazy driver or a driver trying to game the system and not bump docks. This driver does very FEw repowers.
Made it off the yard this evening picked up a frozen load with 3 drops in MN and WI. A niCe change of Direction for me

 

Need some advice. Last week my APU quit with a alt code. Stopped at the TK in Shreveport,LA and they changed out a bad alternator on the APU. A 400.00+ job. It works for a few days and dies again with the same code.

Stopped at the TK in Kingman,AZ. The mechanic comes in and says that whoever changed the alternator didnt tighten it up and it messed up the pulley, tensioner and something else along with shredding the belt. He called Stevens Road Breakdown and told them the same thing.

When hes done he says I should call the TK in Shreveport so I did and the manager there agrees to cover the whole thing. Then, 15mins latter the manager at the shop Im at comes in and says he got a call from the other manager and he looked at the damage and he cant say for sure that it was not tightened up, so the other shop will only cover half the bill of 698.00. Im stuck with the rest. I called and tried to get him to cover it but he wouldnt because its not sure that it was there fault.

I think one manager is covering for the other. I tried all day today to get up with Pat Yarborogh, the Alliance Maintenance manager, but he has always been impossible to get up with. I did leave him a message but no call back today.

Any suggestions?

 

It's been a while, but if I remember right you can send messages to Alliance through the QC. Rather than call, send a MSG to them first that way to start a paper trail. Explain the situation when you do get to speak with Mr. Yarborogh and let him know your suspicions. Explain in detail, write it all down first before you call. I do know that Stevens does enough business with TK for a call to a district manager to be in order, but that may be something for the Alliance management folks to do.

Legally, check the paperwork from the first service. Their work might be under warranty for something like 30 days ... any reputable mechanic would have no problem covering their work for a month ... if that is spelled out in the paperwork (read ALL of the fine print) give the first folks a call back and call them out on it.

You might have a case for small claims court (Peoples Court would be hilarious) here. When I was an Aircraft Mechanic we were responsible for everything within 18 inches of our work area. That sort of standard should apply to all mechanics ... aircraft or not IMO. It seems to me that for this has the same chances of being unrelated as you have to win the lottery three times in a row. It smells like a pile of bovine excrement if you ask me ... I think you're getting hosed.