how bout a forum for techs to rant and rave and who knows what else. i know theres only a few, but if you build it......

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what, don't get enough of that through the day??? One part I don't miss about the job...

well basically blips and fun stuff. i dont take my work home with me but it is my life.

You mean, like them pulling in the worst oil cooler failure I've ever seen into my bay at 4pm?

naw, 4:45 and it has to go out tonight... Had a semi drug in at about quitting time, gelled up, and the guy needed to roll... got him out that night, but no overtime pay or even so mush as a thakns from the service manager... Trucker was ecstatic that we took care of him though...

hey, that part makes it worth it, as much as it sucks to stay after.

Ryan

ok see thats what i mean.

Yeah, well, I do that kind of thing for the customer, that manager was a prick...
Of course, there was this one old f@#$%^& that I wouldn't get in a hurry for if he was having a heart attack... I was working under this POS truck that was a used up Minnesota DOT dump truck, trundle suspension, which to those of you that don't know what that means, basically it was a solid rear suspension that had a basic I-beam on a pivot, no springs... Well, I am working under the truck doing u joints and the like and this old bastard comes in and talks to the guy in the bay next to mine, aksing in a tone, "does he know what he's doing under there?" I thought, you SOB, I just put a clutch in a school bus the last time you checked on the POS, I think I can handle your junk... And that truck would have been better for parts than trying to fix it! He wasn't even smart enough to release the parking brake on it... It had a one axle park set, air brakes, and he tried driving it down the road still set! I had to go and show him the little control lever on the dash, old Ford 9000 chassis... My manager couldn't understand how he could drive with the park set, well, it was the Cummins 903 V8, and only one axle sets... The old fart had smoke rolling off the brakes, and had the balls to claim I screwed up the truck! GRRRR>>>>