Mechanic talk

[cosmo1]

You guys dont get tips? Why do drivers deserve tips and no one else? Say a customer tips you, and then you give a tip to the loaders, unloaders and the part time car washers. They tipped your service which requires the truck being loaded, unloaded, washed and fueled. So some of that tip is theirs too. Notice I kept it to the part time employees, they're the only ones who deserve a tip.

IIRC, all but about 4 of my 34 years were rural routes.

I might get the occasional $5 or $10, but by far my tips were a plate of cookies, a pie and maybe some homemade venison bologna.

I wasn't sharing with anyone.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

IIRC, all but about 4 of my 34 years were rural routes.

I might get the occasional $5 or $10, but by far my tips were a plate of cookies, a pie and maybe some homemade venison bologna.

I wasn't sharing with anyone.

Or some homemade moonshine.

 

[wayfair]

You've had to seen at some point with UPS what Im talking about.

I do remember a guy on here that wanted a friggin pretzel..

If I did my job the way my preloader does his, my customers would be demanding tips from me to keep them from calling in and complaining.

Like I said take a couple days riding with a driver.

I think the hardest I have seen a mechanic work is when my brakes went out at my first delivery and he had to make a road call and help me off load onto an empty PC.

 

[wayfair]

My supervisor got after me in an email about doing half and hour of OT for the week.

haha, an email...

 

[govols019]

BS.

Yawn.

 

[Mechanic86]

Drivers saying the mechanics are cry babies lmao

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

haha, an email...

I happily avoided having a functioning email account for years.

 

[oldngray]

I happily avoided having a functioning email account for years.

sounds like Hillary

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

We have to change passwords almost monthly. Like there's so much at stake there LOL

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We have to change passwords almost monthly.

My bank forces me to change passwords every 90 days. I use Quicken software to reconcile my accounts which means I have to update those passwords every 90 days. PITA.

 

[iamupser]

My supervisor got after me in an email about doing half and hour of OT for the week.

Last year OT wasn't a problem. This year not so much. He (sup) came to us yesterday and asked if we worked an hour a day could we get our down car list down to respectable levels. It's been 6 months in the making and we're supposed to fix it in a flash. We've got engine jobs, transmissions, some that need a Barret-Jackson rebuild, 6.0L accel/throttle wiring issues (those are the worst).

Yeah, it's going to take some time to dig ourselves out of this hole.

 

[Mechanic86]

Yeah still no OT allowed here.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

If you've got damaged wiring on the throttle control module (in cab), I've found you can repair those pin terminals by salvaging some form a VT harness...so long as you don't mind them being purple.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Funny how all the OT restrictions come off at peak when you are least able to make use of it.

 

[oldngray]

If you've got damaged wiring on the throttle control module (in cab), I've found you can repair those pin terminals by salvaging some form a VT harness...so long as you don't mind them being purple.

Does that mean you get to scrap another VT engine?

 

[dragracer66]

Funny how all the OT restrictions come off at peak when you are least able to make use of it.

in my building if you leave in 8 hrs they ask why are you leaving. We have guys doing 6th and 7th days and there's no end in sight.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Does that mean you get to scrap another VT engine?

I wish. These things have been in service since '05, so it seems unlikely they will get repowered either at this point.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

in my building if you leave in 8 hrs they ask why are you leaving. We have guys doing 6th and 7th days and there's no end in sight.

!!!!!!

 

[iamupser]

in my building if you leave in 8 hrs they ask why are you leaving. We have guys doing 6th and 7th days and there's no end in sight.

What area? I'm going to bother my boss with that.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Last year OT wasn't a problem. This year not so much. He (sup) came to us yesterday and asked if we worked an hour a day could we get our down car list down to respectable levels. It's been 6 months in the making and we're supposed to fix it in a flash. We've got engine jobs, transmissions, some that need a Barret-Jackson rebuild, 6.0L accel/throttle wiring issues (those are the worst).

Yeah, it's going to take some time to dig ourselves out of this hole.

Is a Barret-Jackson rebuild a term for a Basket Case? Like some clapped out piece of junk from CA?