Okay, you’ve sunk a cool half-million dollars in your small fleet of commercial heavy duty trucks (say 8 trucks) and most of them now sit idle in your yard. Now, you have to figure out how much each one will cost to get them fixed – then you have to figure out if the maker has a faulty design or some faulty materials since so many are sidelined at the same time. Okay, now you have to figure out what to do about your high blood pressure spikes, the employees idled by this, the lost booked business, the lost potential business, the lost client good will – and then back to doing something about that spiking blood pressure.
Then you go to a lawyer to see what obligations are owed by the manufacturer. He looks around for an expert who can get inside the rigs and see what is happening (more…)