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That week in 2019 where every delivery truck broke down at once
I had three trucks go down in the same 48 hour span, right before the holiday rush. One threw a belt on the highway, another had a tire blowout, and the third just would not start, turned out the battery cables were corroded. I had to reroute everything through a temp agency, cost us an extra $900 in overtime. Has anyone else dealt with a perfect storm of equipment failures like that?
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pat_perry1mo ago
The 48 hour window thing hit close to home for me. Last fall I had two vans die on the same Monday, one was a fuel pump and the other just overheated on the interstate. What saved us was calling around to a few local shops instead of the dealer. They had loaner trucks we could borrow for the day, so we kept moving without the temp agency price. Also, I started keeping a spare set of belts and cables in the shop after that. It's not the same as fixing everything, but it cuts down on the panic when stuff goes sideways.
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