We run two trucks most days right now, but hiring, training, and retaining have been extremely difficult. We currently have a FT girl who just graduated high school and worked evenings/Saturdays for us for a year and a half and we just replaced our FT guy with a FT girl. The FT girl’s doing well and has a lot of potential but I don’t know how long it will be before she’s comfortable enough to be the senior tech on the truck. Scott either takes one of them or sends them out together depending on the day. (Or I drive Kylee to small jobs since our insurance says you have to be driving for three years before you can drive a commercial vehicle. She knows what she’s doing, so I drive her and chat with the customer or do paperwork or whatever.)
We’ve only been a 2 trucks running company for a year. Aside from finding the people and getting them trained, we are limited by Scott’s ability to accept someone else doing the work on his company’s behalf. I can imagine how hard it must be to work for 14 years building a business and then adjust to sharing the workload when you can’t clone yourself. I’ve asked him a couple times over the last year if he wants to go back to being a one truck operation because employees are difficult to deal with but seriously, we are way too busy for that. Even with one truck booked six days a week and the second one booked four, we are full almost three weeks out. We’ll see what happens
... Chavez?
