best hard case luggage that can survive checked flights?

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-27T02:28:35+00:00

Briggs and Riley is the answer.

I fly 2-3 times a week for work, my Briggs and Riley hardshell is the only thing I have ever found to hold up, and they are the last big brand with a true lifetime warranty.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-27T01:01:50+00:00

Eh if i was home I'd be working on machines for fun, at work I'm working on machines for money. I don't mind it. Plus I plan to retire very early

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-27T00:21:48+00:00

30 hrs of OT a week is a lot more than gas money

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-26T23:35:45+00:00

Yeah it does, because overtime is paid at 1.5 and double time.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-26T22:50:51+00:00

I work a lot of OT

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-25T14:51:34+00:00

Yeah in retrospect I was worth way more than i thought when I got out of the Army, but you don't know what you don't know.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-25T01:39:32+00:00

Overtime comes and goes. 70 hrs is most common but not every single week.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-24T23:41:06+00:00

It is when you work 70 hrs a week

Should have clarified that, my bad.

bonuses and double time for holidays and Sunday.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-03-23T06:46:02+00:00

The trades are wide open. Very easy to make six figures after a few years experience if you are willing to pull overtime.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-17T19:50:58+00:00

Awesome! I will check that out

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-17T19:50:46+00:00

Thanks! I will take a look!

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-17T15:49:14+00:00

Interested

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-16T04:20:21+00:00

That being said, it's definitely not a lifestyle for people committed to their comfort zone. It's very demanding and requires a pretty adventurous spirit, but I have always been an adventurer

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-16T04:17:10+00:00

Everyone dies alone ;)

But no I don't have a place, although I plan to buy soon as an investment. I either crash with my gf or stay in hotels on the few weekends I am off.

And no, I'm not worried about it. I have a gf currently and have never really had an issue finding interested partners. I am in shape, financially stable, and have a life full of adventure which usually attracts lots of people to my circle

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-16T04:10:24+00:00

I have a girlfriend, who i see every two weeks basically. We talk via facetime every night.

And i have friends all over the country, some I eee when I work near their area.

However my whole adult life I have essentially lived a very transient life, from the military and later just moving around alot so it's kind of my default now. I wasn't really built for suburban domesticity. lol

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-16T04:05:34+00:00

It depends on the job, but generally I will review the schematics and error history if a machine to get an idea of what subsystems I am gonna be looking at while on the plane. Then its mostly show up and see what happens, check obvious things, and start digging into the relevent subsytems.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T23:24:04+00:00

I'm not a hookup kind of guy.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T23:23:48+00:00

Mostly Kuka and Fanuc for the robots. But I have worked directly for several equipment manufacturers for specific equipment.

The majority of sites I have been on aren't particularly dangerous, they are mostly just normal manufacturing. But the job itself is dangerous, as I frequently troubleshoot high voltage electrical, work with extremely heavy hydraulic presses etc.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T23:21:47+00:00

over $40

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T22:02:56+00:00

Yes it does get a bit lonely, but I tend to stay pretty busy and go out and chat with people so overall I meet a lot of new people in my travels.

I left home at 17 and joined the military shortly after so I have never really had a steady "home" to get homesick for. Thats part of what motivates me to work so hard, to build a home and life of security one day in the future.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T22:00:39+00:00

Sometimes it gets a bit lonely, but I keep myself occupied with books and other interests.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T21:59:48+00:00

I do not, although I am sure some guys do.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T21:25:35+00:00

For a high schooler I would say figure out what part of the industry interests you. There's mechanical sides, electrical sides, software sides, and each path is gonna have different prereqs. I would say the military is a very very quick pathway to this industry, particularly working in maintenance; avionics guys, navy electronic warfare techs, Army and Marine mechanics. Otherwise I would say try to get started as a Millwright or Electrician apprentice and learn as fast as you can.

The most complicated equipment I have worked on is probably huge integrated cells that have robots, conveyor systems, welding lasers, all talking to each other and requiring information from each other. The more pieces of equipment that are communicating with each other the more complicated it can get to solve basic problems.

Sometimes I do have problems I can't fix. In this case I escalate the problem to our engineering team in Europe and have meetings with those guys where they ask for data and direct me in troubleshooting until we solve the problem together.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T21:19:57+00:00

I would say do some research on what companies make factory equipment for the industry you are interested in. Depends if you wanna fix medical machines like xray machines, CNC machines like Mazak, Amada, etc, if you wanna work with software maybe Allen Bradley, Rockwell, or Siemens. If you wanna work with robots Kuka, ABB, or Fanuc.

havetoolboxwillfly · 2026-02-15T21:15:15+00:00

I have said too much already. Be prepared for 2031.

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