After hours rate

Yep. Fuck you, pay me.

Scam rate

@@AncientPharaoh how is it scam rate?

Ta charged my company for road service because all bays were closed Tire changed on lot

The truth in that. Yes

And buy all the specialty tools or whatever you need.

Exactly on the plus side next time you gotta fix the same thing it'll take you less time👍🏽

Lol, that's pretty much how I learned everything. It was cheaper to do it myself, fuck it up, do it again.... I've done all my own work for the past 200,000 miles on my Jeep. And I bought it at 100,000. Plus I rely on that truck, if I break down it costs me repairs AND all the money I've lost by not working. That could be $300-$400 a day

@@zac.s doesn't take any specialty tools to replace an air dryer. It's a simple bolt on &, off replacement with any regular wrenches or socket set.

Good luck. And actually has nothing to do with luck. So before you make good on your decision, consider the cost of the truck, then all the tools you're going to need, then anticipate even more special tools that you're going to need, then try to anticipate who's going to call you and with what car and what parts you're going to need, keep your truck stocked with those, and then anticipate when most people are going to call you during rush hour or after hours when all the parts stores are closed, or on holidays, especially Fridays and weekends, and then sit around and wait for them to call, and then when you don't get any calls so you plan to do something for yourself on the weekend, and just when you get started you get a call and have to cancel everything. People don't get it. They are selfish and entitled. They think when something goes wrong for them, the rest of the world has just planned their entire lives about being ready to be on call and come to your rescue for whatever price that you think is fair to you.

@@7x779 woah bud I was definitely joking. I'm planted in my career. I ain't going unless they throw me out.

Lol. You must be a child. You see 1 video and assume this Company isn't honest. You have no facts or the basic information needed to even understand the requirements to be a mobile Mechanic yet have no problem passing judgment.

That's it. I'm going to be an honest human being. I think I'd kill the competition - Person who doesn't understand reality.

As long as youre certified and insured, yeah it would be a killer business.

Or have a mechanic at the yard.

Yup only needs a check valve not the whole air dryer

You buy a bmw and then can’t afford a mechanic

​@@alexkolle2205 let me guess you drive a BMW?

Lemme save your comment if I ever break down near Vegas lol. Thanks for trying to help drivers much appreciated 😀👍

Absolutely correct and that's why a lot of mobile repair companies charge insane prices. The trucking companies will pay it every time. I got in to trucking 20 years ago. Didn't know squat about turning wrences. Now I can completely rebuild the entire truck if I need to. Hearing those prices drove me to buy tools and manuals on what I needed to fix. Just take your time it isn't a race.

I do the same also. But I give a $100hr rate from the time I hit the highway, and time back. Plus parts. But I know ppl down the highways in my area, so I make a few calls before hand to see if anyone can do it or wants the work. My most expensive Ford 5.4 water pump job was last summer. 12hrs driving, plus part. But I told him to pull it apart as much as possible, and let him use my tools to finish the job so he didn't have a bigger bill. It was that, or a $1400 tow bill. I did cut him a break also and said cover all my fuel and give me $200 for my time. Cause it happens, and they pass off my name. And I always line up other work on the way back so it's not to bad.

Half the drivers these days don't know how to change a light bulb.

Extremely happy I dont work on trailers anymore. The amount of times it was a waste of the companies money and my time is insane. Shocked how many drivers don't understand how an air release tandem works.

But then why not give them both options let the customer decide if he just wants to replace the valve and take the risk or replace everything new and take the warranty

@@williamwill8162 because it's up to the shop if they willing to do that. Same shops will not do no warranty work

Calm down you sound like a high school girl

This one got me to laugh, cuz I'm a technician who works on gas pumps and I have drivers approach me all the time thinking I'm the truck mechanic when they see my service truck. I really don't know that much about big rigs, yet I can say I'm amazing at finding air leaks and the amount of time it's from their drain valve being loose is ridiculous. So I'm not even a truck mechanic or have a diesel truck, yet I'm still helping them with dumb things since I'm there and can charge the gas station my time and it's the stupid easy things all the time.

@@swizzle3006 hahah I was the shop welder and I knew how to fix more things on the trucks then prob 90% of the drivers . I started doing side mechanic work for the neighbors, they thought I was a mechanic and I wasn't going to tell them otherwise. Lol

Brother.. I absolutely understand.. And 1500 for this call was cheap.. Probably the cheapest around. Cause that 3600 all day.

But he saved money 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@williamuskoski1385 for now

A lot of these shorts are filled with BS to be fair.

They may have quoted for the whole dryer, but once they got there and diagnose it they might have just repaired the valve as well.

@@chipanzee7507 very well possible. Go out with the worst case scenario and then find its just a small part. Our mobile techs do that all the time.

Shop labor rate here is $168 an hour. Mobile techs are even more with a flat $150 call out fee. Travel time to repair location charged as well.

That's the truth but you don't know but that's seemingly right!!!!

Its all about where the mass money flow goes. If it goes to the government, then it is what whe all should be fighting.

Idk man I had plumber show up and replace one valve and turn another that didn't seem to work at all before they showed up and they said it was one price, charged a much higher price and now I don't really like plumbers. I looked up how to do something they said I could do on my own and I watched 3 videos and one said it was absolutely nessessary let maintaining and the other said it was totally unnecessary.i ended up doing more plumbing than the plumbers and it didn't cost me anything. They replace one valve cost well over $200. They are useful but you really have to need them because in the end replacing a faucet on your own isn't too hard but plumbing sucks so you spring a leak and you need a plumber anyway. It's complicated. You get electrician who appears credible and their quote is high and they need half upfront, you pay more and they go slower and slack and keep pushing back when they'll show up according to when they said. So you ask for your money back and now they slow roll it because they're slacking and started bum rushing a job they already lost. You get the money back and the next guy shows up when he says and it costs less for the same job because he's 1 guy that probably deserves it better than the 3-4 guys that can't get their crap together. He makes all the money the 3 other guys would've had to split. Maybe it take him a week with all the days, quoting, shopping, doing actual job n site, all the way to final receipt, but he spend $900 in supplies and make $1000 before taxes for 2-3 days honest work or whatever. The other guys all getting paid 30 an hour and he makes 50. Thats better than 3 guys which have no supplies one week after the quote. A week changes a lot. Pricing changes and now your cost is high compared to competition ECT. Time is money. But also quality.

When you put it that way. It makes more sense to pay or do it yourself.

You're a better man than me. I ran a tree service with my bestfriend, I can't tell you how many customers signed the invoice, agreed to the cost and amount of work being done, then would turn around and say we misses this, forgot that or overcharged this. People don't realize that what we do and what you do are considered luxuries, luxury items are always expensive, so is upkeep.

You and your kind are scuzzy. Lucky people even give you work, thinking you are high and mighty repair man. 🤡🤡🤡

Idt the issue was the per hour. But the fact they wanted to charge him starting when they finished the last job till the mechanic gets to the next job after his truck

​@@bootleggedkillawhy not? Don't you want to get paid for when you start working? If that person is asleep and you woke them up to come work for you.. if they drive an hour they should start the time when they reach you? Or how about when they get to the parts place to get your parts and wait an hour.. oh yea they need to do that for free because everything in this world is free so when they get to you and fix it in 20 minutes they can only charge you the 20 minutes of labor.. seems fair 30 dollars for 3 hours of our time and 50 dollars of our fuel when we could have been in bed safe and sound 😃

MHC kenworth in Denver - at their shop - $250 per hour minimum 2 hours. Lmao

But they tried billing him for a new dryer instead of just the purge valve alone, now how is that morally right or skilled?

@@maxwellstephens939 let me explain, this doesn’t always fix the issue, what happens is dirt gets into the passage ways and clogs up the purge valve making it stick open, replacing a purge valve is a temporary fix.. not the solution.

Thats pure bs,, they try to scam him

Absolutely awesome! Maybe it was a sign that you needed some family time :)

10-4

Are you fucxin stxpid the dude wanted to change the whole fucking thing he switch one little thing but someone who doesn't know about cars would have payed and literally gotten scammed

Tard

I was thinking, OTR drivers don't carry these ? Pretty sure all my companies service trucks had one on them for our 50 dumps and 10 belly dumps we had

I've been driving for nearly 8 years now and never had a purge valve fail. I do like carrying fuses and lights and whatnot though...

You know a mechanic don't ask him to work on your car for free. For starters, he doesn't want to work on it on his day off. If he does you should be paying double. How would you feel if your boss came up to you and said hey, good buddy old pal, you want to come in on work on your day off and I'm not going to pay you for it? That's a good way to lose a friend that's also a mechanic.

@@genuinedickies99 you must not have car friends. Because those people love doodling around and fixing shit in cars. Bmws dont fuck up every week so a actual mechanic friend that you know could hook u up for cheap. I dont see why your comment was necessary at all.

@@lilwalgreenscoldandflu6968 his comment was necessary because you're an idiot. I run a shop and no, we don't drool over car crap 24/7. We're in this to make money, and hate working on people's cars and trucks on our off time, and we especially hate doing it for free as a favor. Hell, half of the people in my shop don't even do their own oil changes because the last thing we want to do after working on trucks all day is work on our own, because we know we're not getting paid to do it anyways.

Yes

😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼

Ya ya...jiffy suck. Lol

Thank you, Nathan.

Damn right. there is a reason we charge so much, time, experience, tools, etc.

Same!!

Perfectly said.

That’s fine but I wouldn’t agree to an unknown travel charge. Paying for travel is fine but you gotta tell me what it cost first or at least a ballpark number.

Noone told you to waste money on overpriced tools. Predatory loser.

This is why I love the Mexicans, they will never rip you off

@@daviano Yo I'm married to a Hispanic. Let me tell you sir; 100% you seem to be misguided on this. If you like low quality work that doesn't last sure pay a "mexican". But lol God forbid you trust a central American, or Puerto Rican, columbian. As this man says in his racist blanket statement "mexican".

Air dryer filters should really be changed yearly and if his purge valve went he should have just replaced the air dryer all together.

Absolutely. Owner operators do nothing except complain.

Get a real job 😂then

@@tonyt1604 whaa? I've got one

Cool he doesn’t have to take the quote, that’s the cost of doing bussiness for that mechanic, he doesn’t run a charity

Yeap theyre gonna say like you are going to need new motor

@@noko1877 only if they're a unethical technician, reputation is a huge thing in the automotive repair industry, it only takes a single time being caught screwing the customer to ruin their career.

Why charge so much? Because people will pay it. 😉 Same truckers will cry about waiting for a dock.

Exactly why I stopped doing truck repair and do heavy equipment instead

Most equipment, that price is normally a fraction of the cost of that machine being down.

Yeah and bet you probably never have business 🤦‍♂️

I feel that’s reasonable

@@AngelGarcia-uo4eg And I bet when your car breaks down you pay the $200 tow?😅 If you have the skills, tools, and connections then by all means go open a business yourself for cheaper, but you’re only screwing yourself in the long run selling yourself short. This man clearly knows what he’s worth

@@AngelGarcia-uo4eg I don't get it. They charge like what 70 to 90 at dealerships? So someone who is gonna go strive to you, on the side of a road should not charge more? Lol.

@@AngelGarcia-uo4eg honestly those rates are pretty reasonable considering they are coming to your location, not all people have the time to tow to a shop or diy it at home.

stfu lol who the fuck wants to spend that much for a cheap part

This type of comment makes me get into mechanic so I DON’T GIVE A PENNY FROM MY BUSINESS TO SCAMMERS LIKE MECHANICS ENOUGH WITH F*CKING BROKERS AND Y’ALL TO 😒

Yea I’m use to it that’s why I don’t own

I don't like doing service calls so I charge premium rates. I don't double charge but I also don't do anything for free.

@@huntsbychainsaw5986 I've only drastically over charged one guy, because I was still side gigging and he wanted me to do a repair on an oncall weekend I was slammed on. He didn't want to wait 3 months to get it repaired by a shop or the next week by me, charged him 1500 in labor because I did it at 3 am when I got back into town

@@cornfed123567. That's basically how I treat corporate clients. As a fleet shop we only do services calls for our own equipment and very rarely is it ever done by our own staff because no one wants to do it. So if a corporate client twists my arm to bail them out, it doesn't come cheap.

A new one can go out I've seen it

Most often they fail due to a nicked o-ring or a piece of debris on the o-ring sealing surface.

@@frankgillespie4012 new is not always good, I promise you that.

I dont mind paying the travel fee to get to me nor do I mind the hourly rate. However charging ME AND the next client to get to them is extortion and extremely greedy. You're charging me and the next client for the same thing. You're double dipping and that's not cool.

Do it honest tho don't screw em sideways with no lube just cause you can

Likely do it because some customers won't care, they just want their stuff fixed so they can get paid by two customers for part of the time instead of just one. They're upfront about it but it's still shitty to do regardless.

like what? their time is valuable, it you don't want to pay it, someone else will.

@@678friedbed then some one else can pay, but not I, my time is valuable and so is my money.

Your time is valuable and so is mine that’s why I charge what I do. Most of the guys that are saying this company was scamming don’t understand what it cost to run this type of business right now.

@@dieseltech7_358 I understand sometimes you might be paying for specific knowledge or ability (tooling) but there is a point where it become literal highway robbery.

They might even end up fixing it themselves...

50% mark up?

@@michael2943 -I used to work at a diesel and trailer repair shop. The owner was I’ll just say not the nicest guy. He would pull stunts like on this video. He had 40 percent mark up on ANYTHING down to nuts and bolts. It would be one thing if he paid us well and bought us lunches. He was if not the lowest paid diesel mechanics in the county. Then he would trade his diesel pickup truck every two years for a new truck.

You are not a truck driver who delivers parts just a cheap ass mechanic damnit! 😒

How you guna double charge though? Like you are charging 2 different people for the same charge twice? Just seems like a scam

Why don’t they call a tow truck? Cuz it’s more money! Just pay the mechanic and continue with your day.

How am I double charging tho?

@@nolanryan2234 if I am on a job finishing up and then you call me to come out, I’ll charge that customer I’m leaving 30 mins. Then I start charging you once I leave them too cause I’m heading to you. Weather I leave that customer and go back to my shop or head to you, I’m going to charge 30 mins to come to you and 30 mins to leave you. If your an hr away this keep you from having to pay 2 hrs total instead of just 1. Only time I really ever charge a customer more than an hr drive time is if they are 2 hrs away and I don’t have another job closer to them.

Wtf is it 180 an hour. Holy hell I’d open a shop now.

No one is saying for free. But charging you time until they arrive to the next job AFTER they have finished with you is extortion and is extremely greedy.

@@ljguy300 Agree 👍💯

The problem is the mechanic doesn't get all those money, but the shop so whenever you can avoid them better do it...

My problem is that they charge 1 customer for the drive to them and then the next customer. Then they charge the next customer for the same so they are double charging each custome for travel time. Total bs and sketchy

It's even more disgusting all the entitlement the average Joe thinks he's entitled to out there. Can you believe it? He thinks that Zaba has just designed his whole life about investing all his money and time and equipment and trucks so when something goes wrong you're going to rush out there day or night weekend or holiday and go rescue him and then charge him whatever he thinks he should pay you. Simply Amazing isn't it?

@@7x779 This, does he think I'm just around the corner waiting on his call. You called me and you will have to pay my travel time because who knows where in the heck you are. I'm not spending 4 hours driving, one hour working and then 4 hours back for 125. 9 hours for 125 dollars, not going to happen. Then you have this wingnut talking about a new dryer, that was only a estimate IF that was what is needed. If it only needed a purge valve then that is what you would have been charged for. They gave you a worst case scenario. How do you know "as they wished to" they haven't seen it yet. I hope the next time he gets a flat his tail has a jack, wrench and a spare.

Exactly. Or it’s pissing down with rain or stinking hot. If you don’t like their rates call a wrecker and get towed to a shop.

Yeah boy. Keep you something handy to bypass a brake chamber too will save you a lot.

Yes. It comes from their revenue, it's called a business expense. The service charge covers the gas. I've never heard of someone charging shop rate for the time they spend in traffic. Ridiculous.

Dude, that's literally what truckers do. They get paid by the mile... You think they will drive 10 hours to deliver a load and not get paid for driving back?