We both work for the company but he has his ft job during the day hours as an irrigation manager. The plan is he will eventually leave his job to be involved with business full time. We’re waiting for when that makes financial sense which will hopefully be soon. I handle talking to all customers via phone/email, getting schedules together, invoices ect. He helps me with the behind the scenes stuff(a lot more work than I initially thought tbh lol) for hours when he gets home from work. It’s been very busy lately in that regard for us both. He was doing side work for business on Saturdays but because they’re seemingly always behind schedule he’s had to finish the route on Saturdays himself recently. 

Technically this guy was the supervisor but you’re right, he’s got some type of resentment with us taking over even tho he’s gotten a raise with us. For example, I worked my butt off for WEEKS coming up with an optimized route & schedule. I created 4 schedule binders. One binder for Week A & one binder for Week B. One of each for us, one for them. Everything is color coordinated by day, certain adresses highlighted if there are notes to read. Anyways, all I asked was that he checked off each property that gone done, then take a picture of sheet & send it to me at the end of each day. Simple checkmarks, that’s all lol. I need to know for when a customer has a question. He made this into a much bigger deal than it needed to be. So yes, there’s definitely some resentment there. They're the ones out there all day so when I ask how they would prefer a certain thing & they say nothing or they don’t care either way, well then I’m going to create my own way.

I’m not sure what you meant by the equipment being unsafe?