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Not even close to the same thing. One unit is $70k new. I need it to last 20 yrs. That is the expected service life. You re-grout your bathroom every couple of years, it’s not expensive to do and the grout brands are all pretty close in quality. Motor oil‘s vary in quality by large margins...

Currently in the market for one.

The contract is up next year. I need him now. Looking for a replacement takes time. Looking for a new building currently too.

I go through enough oil for age to not be a concern. One gas engine takes 2 gal of oil. One diesel takes 5 gal. Using full synthetic does not lower my price for PM’s, the quality of full synthetic that I’m willing to pay for will not hold up to the demands my equipment will put on it. I’ve...

He is a old school mechanic, he’s always done it his way and always will. He’s great at making due and Jerry rigging things to get them through the day. Problem is, then he doesn’t go back and make it correct. Installing the dash camera’s, I told him I wanted them mounted a certain way, he...

Mostly correct. He get’s “X” per week, we pay for the building. So his expenses are minimal. He can make more money by up charging others. If he really wanted to make money he’d have every thing done on time because he has been up charging the hand that feeds him. I fully expect a Indy shop...

That is not easy. Right now I need him, even a bad employee is better than no employee. Things are getting done. Just not on time or very cost effectively.

I buy oil by the case from a supplier. I can’t buy it by the drum because I can’t be sure he won’t use it on others equipment and not pay me for it. I’d be fine supplying the oil for him to use for others if I could count on him to mark it up a little and make it worth my while. Right now...

It is HIS shop, WE pay for the lease on the building. If we let the lease run out, he has to move on or take it over himself. We pay him to prioritize our equipment In all manners, maintence and repairs.

That’s just it, I have met him in the middle by providing him with the motor oil he is willing to use, he is still buying parts but I am supplying fluids and filters. When he tells me something is back ordered I find a suitable supplier that can get me the part ASAP, if even at a slightly...

The drivers are not supposed to be checking fluids. That was their job under the old ownership, and they failed at it miserably. The mechanic is supposed to be checking fluids once a week. And then if something is amiss he tells us and we schedule it to be off the road. If it is vital, or...

He is starting to feel the pressure. He is going to feel it even more when the manager watches him replace 5 air filters and writing down the mileage and unit number for me to enter into the computer.

We did not write the contract. It was grandfathered in when we bought the company.

We are taking him out of the purchasing equation. That’s why I bought the air filters, and the spring for the roll up door, and the turn signal switch, and wiper blades…

His contract was grandfathered in, we did not write it. We did not set it up. He has been the mechanic for the old company for 15 years. Old company went up for sale, we bought it. Old company always told him “we don’t have the money, do it cheap” New company does NOT run that way. Our...

In house QVI inspection. It was minor, it was fixed that morning and they truck was able to leave. there was a blown fuse and some of the lights didn’t work. I have been implementing a service schedule. I wrote and printed one off for him to start following.

Yes. I use the syn blend 15w-40 in my mixed fleet of gas and Diesel engines. Refined oil is no different than virgin oil. The base stock never wears out, it only becomes contaminated and looses it’s additives and viscosity modifiers. When it is recycled it is distilled under high heat and...

Yes he is allowed to work on others equipment. We are planning on letting the contract expire next year. We will be looking for a new mechanic in the new year.

Close, he is marking up the supplies and parts. He buys them, marks them up, and then gets reimbursed from us. Just figured this out this week. Every time I say I’m supplying the parts, he balks. Then I compared the price of a Feightliner turn signal switch that he bought, and one that I...

That’s what I’m doing right now. I just bought 3 cases of full syn from Costco. I’m going to send it down, along with the air filters, with the manager heading down there on Monday. She will make sure he installs the air filters ASAP and put that oil in the storage truck. Then we tackle...