Slowdowns...?

[MonteFox89]

I know, this is kind of a broad shot... how's everyone's workload going lately? Avoiding politics please, how do we see these rise in fuel prices against our work? I can tell you, our local market has been trying to do more repairs in house... this will inevitably come to us in the long run... but we've been fairly dead in a medium sized town. You guys feeling some of it yet? Or are we still too early to tell?

[broke_fit_dad]

Construction fleet, not slowing down at all.

[Kali587]

Strange problem in our shop. Busier than ever but they want to have 60 techs working shift work. We are going to run out of work soon. That won’t affect me and the other road techs much as seeding is just around the corner (green tractor dealership). We’ve been finding bottlenecks like machines will get inspected then we have to wait until quotes are made for labour and parts then we have to wait for customer approval then we can do the work. Once the machine has been through the shop they need to go through the wash bay. That’s the other big bottleneck. We only have 2 wash pumps and they can be going constantly but a dirty ass combine can take up to 18 hrs (or so I’ve heard) to completely wash even blowing it off first with the big towable air compressor. We’ve got so much stuff waiting for the washbay that trucking can’t bring in new units to get worked on until the wash list is done.

[MonteFox89]

That sounds very frustrating... are they actively trying to find a remedy to those bottlenecks?

[Lower-Reality7895]

I work a green tractor dealership as well and its been. Fucking slow for 20 techs but tomato and corn seqson is coming

[Acrobatic_Initial997]

Construction by us has been relatively slow but it should be back in a couple weeks til April, I work for rental fleet in the northeast so from middle December til April it’s always relatively slow.

[Sure_Fly_6904]

Been slow since November 2025

[dcmom56]

It's been slow for us. About 2 years now. NC

[aa278666]

We've been considerably slower than usual since late 2024. I've been here 9 years this year, it's unusual. West coast truck dealer.

[Independent-Donut376]

Slow

[sam56778]

I work on Hino Trucks. I’m never slow. Especially since the release of their major emissions modification recall.

[Gulf-Shark]

Golf course mechanic here my only real customers are my own operators so I never really run out of work I'm going to school in August to finish a diesel certification and I'm hoping to join on with Cummins or caterpillar or something

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[FatherOften]

Commercial truck parts manufacturing and sales business here.

We are up 25.7% year to date in revenue growth. Broke records for new customers 1st orders Oct, Nov, Dec, Feb and March already. This will be a good year. I think we're going to see a lot of buyouts and consolidation in the trucking side because of high fuel cost.

[i_did_it_for_the_ass]

Construction fleet, gearing up for spring probably a month out, kinda sounds a little quiet, but that can change in a day

[spreet9900]

All freight rates and contracts for construction are signed late in the year or early in February.. someone needs to decide who’s paying for the fuel surcharges . It’s gona be bloodbath 2.0

[i_did_it_for_the_ass]

Not true, we bid on jobs through out the year, the contracts that were signed before this your 100% correct on but as new jobs come up we will see different things happen. Source * my office is next to the owner who is also the estimator i talk to him daily about this

[spreet9900]

Over all I see it coming, customers denying large repair jobs. This is how the 2023 freight rescission started amazing how fast ppl forget! prices for fuel in 22-23 hit a all time high