My depot is 3 hours away.
I have a set area to cover which is up to 60 miles from my house and i have both hired and customer owned fork trucks to service and repair.
The company i work for has never had a issue before with distances or how long it takes to arrive on site.
It has always been convenient for engineers who live 15 mins away from a customer or Depot in a large town or city to arrive on site then go awol for 15 mins.
I do not have that option and all of the travel time is taken up driving.
I have worked in the fork lift industry for over 20 years and seen many changes that have made our jobs better and worse, the main thing that gets to me now is the fact companys can not operate with out us but we seem to be the easy targets and get paid a poor wage for what we do.