XPO | Any Reships or terminals having problems getting motors fixed?

rangeman

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We never had a good maintenance program set up at out at our terminal,but the last month or so we have had several motors sitting for weeks without getting repaired. I'm not a rich person so I don't know how they think,but it seems to me to be a very small potato way to make more money for shareholders???
 
It's the process. The simplist task takes three times as long. We have forklifts down for a 100.00 part we can get from the Toyota dealer... Nope, have to go through the process and wait.
 
It's the process. The simplist task takes three times as long. We have forklifts down for a 100.00 part we can get from the Toyota dealer... Nope, have to go through the process and wait.
We will ship the motor out , get a replacement ( that's in worse shape than the one that needs repaired ) , and like Upnorth said - the repairman will tell us it's a $100 part.
 
Most terminals with vendor supported forklift maintenance have crap machines. How close is the nearest con-job shop? Have your TM contact the
regional maintenance manager (I think they call it MFM) and have him see about sending the lifts to the company shop once a year, to be gone over.
Pull the forks off, drive into a trailer, remove fuel tank, and ship it. If it goes to a shop with good forklift mechanics, it'll come back in good shape.
 
The same thing applies for trucks and trailers. We will send 478's and long boxes to get PMs at a local shop. If a repair needs to be performed, they will sit there until we get parts from maintenance..even if the shop can get the part quicker. It's truly a pain in the ass.
 
The same thing applies for trucks and trailers. We will send 478's and long boxes to get PMs at a local shop. If a repair needs to be performed, they will sit there until we get parts from maintenance..even if the shop can get the part quicker. It's truly a pain in the ass.

Yup, and if something breaks down at a terminal without a shop and a vendor has to come fix it, instead of letting the vendor fix it with their parts and get it right back on the road, they make the terminal order the parts from the Cincinnati shop and the broken equipment gets to sit around for a week or longer waiting on the parts to come in from Cincy, then the vendor has to come back AGAIN and fix it.

The place is about as efficient as a government run organization...
 
Yup, and if something breaks down at a terminal without a shop and a vendor has to come fix it, instead of letting the vendor fix it with their parts and get it right back on the road, they make the terminal order the parts from the Cincinnati shop and the broken equipment gets to sit around for a week or longer waiting on the parts to come in from Cincy, then the vendor has to come back AGAIN and fix it.

The place is about as efficient as a government run organization...
Sounds like lean at its best!
 
FedEx Freight Canada did all the same ::shit::. It was even worse if the trailer was American. Then it'd sit there while FXFC and FXFE maintenance departments had it out over the price of the repair. Meanwhile if a Canadian trailer was at a US yard with a shop, they'd fix it and bill maintenance after.

It was so stupid that if my dolly came up for PM or safety I'd drag it to TOL and they'd do in half an hour what'd take a week or two at my home terminal.
 
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