Why you need two trucks

Here is a perfect example

over a month ago, more like 5 weeks ago my blower took a Sh#t on my gas truck mount.

That morning at the customers house I just told her give me around an hour and I will be back

Left the hoses everything ready to go came back with my spare truck did not miss a beat.

Well the Blower was beyond me fixing it so I took it to Rogers Machinery in Seattle to be rebuilt they took over 5 weeks to get it done.
was only to take a week but 5 weeks later I have it back in the machine and ready to work in the morning.

What would you have done? take 5 weeks off or maybe just work with a porty?
what about major engine repairs on the work truck?

Guy's it's cheap insurance to have an extra truck it does not have to be fancy just needs to geterdone.
Through out the year don't forget to take your extra rig out and do some work with it too. so you know it will work. LOL


If your in Seattle or the North West PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING TO Rogers Machinery!

Wise advice sir....I am thinking about doing that very thing this winter. Right now, I have a sub that will let me use his El Diablo if needed, but that only works if the schedules jive.

5 weeks on the blower? I've rebuilt transfer cases with hand tools in 2 days...what is so difficult about a vacuum blower that it would take so long?

Also, good to see you back on the board...hope you make a habit out of stopping by.

ODIN wrote:Here is a perfect example

Well the Blower was beyond me fixing it so I took it to Rogers Machinery in Seattle to be rebuilt they took over 5 weeks to get it done.
was only to take a week but 5 weeks later I have it back in the machine and ready to work in the morning.

What would you have done? take 5 weeks off or maybe just work with a porty?
what about major engine repairs on the work truck?

It's not really cost effective for me to have money tied up in a second truck just waiting around for use.

My backup plan is having a good buddy who I got into the biz many years ago, who's there for me when needed because I'm there for him when needed.

I'm with Terry in this, we are usually busy on saturdays and if one of our vans decided to take a crap on saturday, that's bad enough already and guess what ? Your buddy / competitors are more likely busy too, so yes back up van is very important, and guys, don't fall into the rip off of truckmount financing companies, they charge way too much, get used decent low hours unit that will last you at least 2 - 3 years, maintain your units even though they're sitting, start them up once or twice a week, spray your blower, don't let your solution and detergents sitting for a long period of time, they will rot and stink up the whole van, I learned that last part the hard way

What did the machine shop charge for the work?

the est was around 750 dollars they charged me 1100 and I had to wait 5 friggen weeks for it

never a phone call from them the blower just sat there untouched for weeks.

a new blower from roots was at least a month out or more. So the rebuild was the best choice at the time. I had no idea once they had my blower it was just going to sit there till they got around it.

Ouch 1100. What size blower is it?