A top 5 classic indeed!To everyone that has replied, I think we've been down this ungraded road before.
Remember the dreaded D-6 thread?
A top 5 classic indeed!To everyone that has replied, I think we've been down this ungraded road before.
Remember the dreaded D-6 thread?
Bet they didn't give you any more than your hourly rate to find them the missing $$$. My brother's boss called him on a weekend in a big panic because he had forgot about a new contract that had to be ready for Monday morning. Offered him cash to help him out. My brother worked all weekend (must ad that my brother no longer worked for the guy). Handed him the up dated contracts with negotiation points, and told him how to handle the guy. He called my brother, and said that they had agreed on the first offer, and that he would drop something off for him that evening as thanks. It was a contract with the local Arbec osb mill. They look after the warehouse. Stacking the lifts of osb as it comes out of the mill. Load the trucks that come in to get product. Truck the board to another warehouse where it is loaded on rail cars to ship. He got all the men in the operation raises, including 2 years back time. Plus the company owner got $90'000 to put in his own pocket, (he had sold the company, but the back time was his). He gave my brother $50 bucks.I remember at an old warehouse I used to work at my boss asked me to find 100000$ that was missing. Took me 3 hours 7 phone calls and multiple in person conversations with different co workers involved and searching the computer records. Nothing was wrong someone forgot to press a button.
I’ve also had it where someone pressed the wrong button and instead of going up they went down which through the magic of technology was the difference of ordering 1 vacuum cleaner to… 9999… which the next guy up the ladder approved because he didn’t read the sheet and added it to the pile. 4 people were fired and we got exactly one vacuum.
This is a bad business plan. Invest your money elsewhere. There is no connection.
Thanks, I appreciate the benefit of the doubt. Looking to get some advice on what would make this useful to everybody in the forum, so hopefully some good comes of it.Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums, Jack.
This can be found in the Forum Rules: " A vendor of goods or services may create one introductory post or thread explaining their product or service and may answer questions about such within that thread. "
Since you made a good faith effort to correct your spamming you get the benefit of the doubt. I removed the other threads to bring you into compliance. Also, it doesn't hurt that your idea has generated some discussion here, which, after all, is why we're here.
Carry on...
We were going to take something like a 2% rake. Because this is going to be software-based, it's not like we need to cover rents, so we can pass through most of the money to the tech - which helps attract talent.You are going to pay the tech full rate? You aren't making any money?
How are you going to be better than JustAnAnswer? They have some "great techs" as well. Dealer guys, ect
What defines a "great tech"?
This is good advice man. I don't know that we've got the hardware chops to make a scan tool, unfortunately.Software guy? A much better thing to do would be to make some real inexpensive, heavy truck and equipment scan tools, that do more than anyother that are offered now. If someone needs to know something from a manual, buying the manual is money better spent than asking someone else and paying them to thumb through a manual.
Along with the tool mentioned, rather than pay people to look at manuals, just pay the dues and offer access to the manuals online, for a small fee.
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- We built a website to let you ask questions in plain english (hey what's the torque spec for X on a 2014 cat D6) and give you answers from the relevant manuals
No. That one was out on its own at the top of the table and nothing remotely like it has ever been seen since. It finally quit at 68 pages IIRC.A top 5 classic indeed!
Another great response, thanks for the feedback man. Sounds like most people think this idea is somewhere between mediocre and god-awful, which is really good to know, honestly.Wait just a second, isn’t that what’s happening here on HEF? Last time I checked, all the advice here is free, what would cause someone to go out there and pay for it? There isn’t much a dealer can tell you that someone here doesn’t have access to. I’ll not even go into the labor pool discussion or ask where the hell you think you’re going to find “great techs” let alone find a dealer technician with only 5 years experience that comes close to great. Most of the folks here have literally spent their lives gaining the knowledge and experience they have and are still learning from others on here daily. The whole idea of buying manuals sounds completely ludicrous to me, no way that’s feasible as there are way too many “common models” of machine. Maybe I’m alone in this opinion but I don’t see any way of this working out with the information that you’ve given. Another point to take in consideration is, all new equipment is very software based on operation strategies through ECM controllers and many things can only be done by the dealer with more and more advanced technologies going that direction. The “nuts and bolts” end of things is getting narrower every day. I definitely encourage anyone that’s interested to find their corner of the market and go after it but I’m not sure there’s anything here to be had as any big customer wouldn’t use it as they have high level dealer access and homeowner types dont pay the bills long term.
I made 15$ an hour and fell behind on my own work hahaBet they didn't give you any more than your hourly rate to find them the missing $$$. My brother's boss called him on a weekend in a big panic because he had forgot about a new contract that had to be ready for Monday morning. Offered him cash to help him out. My brother worked all weekend (must ad that my brother no longer worked for the guy). Handed him the up dated contracts with negotiation points, and told him how to handle the guy. He called my brother, and said that they had agreed on the first offer, and that he would drop something off for him that evening as thanks. It was a contract with the local Arbec osb mill. They look after the warehouse. Stacking the lifts of osb as it comes out of the mill. Load the trucks that come in to get product. Truck the board to another warehouse where it is loaded on rail cars to ship. He got all the men in the operation raises, including 2 years back time. Plus the company owner got $90'000 to put in his own pocket, (he had sold the company, but the back time was his). He gave my brother $50 bucks.
And a large percentage of them are knock-off copies from Eastern Europe that aren't worth the money. That's why they are so cheap. From the feedback of various posters on this forum the USB manuals aren't a patch on a genuine OEM manual.There are lots of join a club PDF shop manuals online now.
There is nothing to stop anyone with a pdf manual printing it all out in paper form. At the end of the day provided the pdf manual is OEM there is no difference between the two forms regarding the information they contain.Then there are people like me, I hate a manual on a computer, it takes forever to find stuff.
Yes, the Western Star 3406 repair thread from a month or 2 ago was treading pretty deep into the same water but I think the OP realized that so stopped posting. Like the song, Isn't it ironic... some good advice you just didn't take. I thought it was pretty obvious a shop can't just start taking things apart and buying parts without a signed work order.No. That one was out on its own at the top of the table and nothing remotely like it has ever been seen since. It finally quit at 68 pages IIRC.
There have been one or two threads that had promise but as soon as someone posted "this has all the potential of rivalling the famous D6 thread" things seemed to fizzle out........ My 2c. YMMV.