Yea I'll try and set something up once I get back into town and settled. I'm in Lake City, FL right now, on my way back down to SoFla to pick up my car and trailer, but should be back by thursday night if everything goes according to plan [&:]

 

No far down the street ,i work in duluth @ atlanta toyota(16 years with toyota) -Diesel tech ,humm there is good money lot of call for for them..But hel there is a call for any good tech nowadays..

 

Congrats on the move. Hope you have a great time.

 

I knew a guy who use to work at Akins Ford a while back. He does painting and will probably end up painting my bike once I get it up and running. He is one hell of a painter.

Which you need to ask about a Hail Storm that came through there a few years ago. I believe it totalled or severly damaged every car on the lot. Which I'm sure their insurance just loved.

Diesel mechanicing is probably one job I wouldn't want to have and kudos to those who do it. Mainly becuase the problem with Diesels (Especially Semis and other large trucks) is when someone does bring it in for repair. It's because the vehicle can absolutely without any question not operate on the road at all. And they want you to do it right for next to nothing.

 

Not necessarily... believe it or not from my experience, the limo people are the absolute WORST. I worked at a Lincoln-Mercury dealer where we worked on the big stretch limos (Town Cars/Excursions/Navigators/ect), and I can honestly say that 99% of the limo people are straight up scum (no offense to anyone here that might own/operate a limo company... just speaking from my experience). Wouldn't want to pay for anything, would never want to leave the car, expected everything RIGHT NOW. The diesel people are an absolute dream come true compared to the limo people. And the diesel guys DO spend alot on their trucks, mainly because they're work trucks and they make them money, and just like us techs that work flat rate, time is money. So they can't afford to have breakdowns. At the dealership I was at it was horse country... we had ALOT of polo trucks that were used to tow big $$ horses all over the country. I had customers that would just say... "look, I tow 1/2 million $$ horses with this truck, I can't have it break down anywhere. Do whatever you have to do to make it right". Whatever it was in repairs/maintence/ect, they just wanted it done. Often times it wasn't "how much?", but rather "how soon can you have it done?". Just about any Ford dealer is on average has a 2 week wait time for diesel work, and the customers know this when they drop it off. I can usually get them out the door quicker though, so they're happy and don't bitch too much.

Every area has it's pros and cons though. But I enjoy the diesel work... it's different and not something everybody wants to do. And when it comes to driveability it's actually easier than the gas motors. Plus we're in such high demand (ford is really short of good diesel techs), we can damn near get away with murder!

I'll have to ask them about the hail storm... sounds like the one we had up in northern Illinois back in 1998