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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 1053893" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p>For the 30 years I worked at UPS our mechanic started at about 4:00p.m. and worked til about 1:00a.m. During those years he had crap trucks to work on (most of them were 20+ years old). He basically had a hammer and a few coat hangers for tools. Us drivers always got a laugh out of his tool assortment. I don't know how he accomplished anything. The overhead doors in the building were always open so in the summer he had to lay under the trucks and fight off swarms of mosquitos and giant water bugs that would crawl up out of the swamp next door. In the winter the doors were opened and shut all night long as the trucks were unloaded, washed and spotted for the next day. After about 9 o'clock once the doors were shut and the building had a chance to warm up a little then he got to lay under the trucks and work with the snow and ice melting off the trucks. We didn't have a separate mechanics work bay so whatever the temp was outside is what he had to work in when the doors were opened. I would check at the facility you would be working in first to see what the working conditions are like. Working as a mechanic at my old center had to be torture.</p><p></p><p>Giant water bug:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqAzARBM5Iw" target="_blank">water bug attack - YouTube</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rod, post: 1053893, member: 5382"] For the 30 years I worked at UPS our mechanic started at about 4:00p.m. and worked til about 1:00a.m. During those years he had crap trucks to work on (most of them were 20+ years old). He basically had a hammer and a few coat hangers for tools. Us drivers always got a laugh out of his tool assortment. I don't know how he accomplished anything. The overhead doors in the building were always open so in the summer he had to lay under the trucks and fight off swarms of mosquitos and giant water bugs that would crawl up out of the swamp next door. In the winter the doors were opened and shut all night long as the trucks were unloaded, washed and spotted for the next day. After about 9 o'clock once the doors were shut and the building had a chance to warm up a little then he got to lay under the trucks and work with the snow and ice melting off the trucks. We didn't have a separate mechanics work bay so whatever the temp was outside is what he had to work in when the doors were opened. I would check at the facility you would be working in first to see what the working conditions are like. Working as a mechanic at my old center had to be torture. Giant water bug: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqAzARBM5Iw]water bug attack - YouTube[/url] [/QUOTE]
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