i didnt either and id be a fool if i didnt try to get in as a dealer at some point in the future
but you gotta start somewhere lol
and thanks for all the help from you guys and every1 else on the forums here
this site is a great tool for vets and upcoming techs alike
i tell a lot of people i know in the ind to check this out

lol isee your dislike and i know how you feel
obviously i feel the same lol
hey no problem apology accepted

i started in forklifts when i was 23 now im 34 (all at my old job) in all those years i only had 2 really honest sales people most of the others were either bad at the job or liars
my WORST pet peeve with them is when the salesman walks into a customer and tries to diagnose a machine himself, with no tools, no tech knowledge and without even bending over to look at it closely
i had a huge blowup at my old place over that
guy goes out and has a customer spend approx $1000 on new batteries, he didnt even call in to get a tech for diagnostics
after that didnt help, i show up and adjust the tiller switch
no more problems to date
and this wasnt the 1st or even 2nd time that this guy tried to "play mechanic" and failed horribly
my fav was when he tried getting load wheels for a reach
all on his own, looked at the machine, sourced and picked up new load wheels, and handed them to service with the new customers addy
i go in with his parts
take apart the old ones then found out that the new ones were approx 5 mm too big to fit in the brackets (floating LW assy)
i bring them back and reorder the correct parts
but then this sales guy starts in with me "how do you know they didnt fit? did you even try to put them in?" i lost my sht on him
and then even after all of that
the customer tells me when i came back with the right parts the this sales guy came and says "i know what happened here, Justin came in, took a quick look at it , and decided the wheels wouldnt fit" the the customer told him "no, he took it all apart and found out they wouldnt fit cause he tried getting them in and looking for anything else wrong besides the parts being incorrect"
needless to say that guy got a "talking to" lol
but that didnt stop him

now (along with my old boss) this same guy is going around and badmouthing me lol
again needless to say my reputation stands alone and that guy has no shot at denting it

a lot of customers HATED dealing with my company but they loved me and the work i DO for them
going through my old co was a "necessary evil" to get to me
add to that unpaid commissions,being promised and then being passed over for management twice by guys that were there 2 years and the other 7 months (the only reason i got passed over was to keep my wrench on the road, but how could any1 with half a brain not see that those decisions would push me out the door completely)
with that business opportunities presented themselves

i dont know what was sadder walking away from a place that i poured my soul, sweat, and blood into or walking away from all the money they owe me (get all promised commissions in writing guys, i thought i could trust these people and when you handshake with me i consider it a HUGE disrespect to go back on what was shook on)

if that guy gave me the chance i would have 180degreed that place and made it efficient, SAFE, and profitable
...

now my old boss is going around and flat out lying about me
its real sad i prob made that guy a million bucks or more in my time there

ive been chomping at the bit on some threads over the last few months (mainly those GPS and TRAVEL TIME threads i wanted to go off) cause i know my old boss looks at these forums (thanks to me lol)

FYI the name of my company is McLIFT llc (a play on my last name and irish heritage) my email if you guys need anything is
justinmclift at gmail
another reason i didnt use my own name is that theres a dealer in upstate NY (im downstate) who uses his last name which is the exact same spelling as my last name, i just foresaw legal issues with that down the road so McLIFT was born lol

again thanks for the encouragement guys
(im already making more than what i used to lol, like i always say im gonna get whats owed to me, one way or another)