Report this forum post

Heh heh. Patience, patience.
If it is the guy who owns the truck, and pays for the service........not much you can do other than try to establish some basic rules of how you operate.
You can tell the owner that your insurance policy does not allow for persons other than you (and perhaps a helper who is on YOUR payroll) to be in the work area while you are actually performing a service task.
If it is a bunch of the owners paid employees that want to show up and hang out, the owner might want them to get back to work as they are loitering on his dime.
If it is any other kind of persons hanging out, you can tell them yourself to vamoose.
Aside from some obvious dangers of potentially spraying onlookers with fluid, or something falling/tipping and hitting them, you have to understand that some people (especially the bill payer) consider that the entire property belongs to them and that they have an inherent right to watch what you are doing to their property while on their property.
Some may be just overly curious, others may not trust that you are spending your time efficiently (over billing for wasted time, as if they could actually be the judge of that).
The concept of "sidewalk supervisors" is nothing new.
If I were in your position I might say "If you want to watch me, do it from over there (point to wherever) and don't interrupt me with conversation and the job will go more efficiently. I don't want to have to worry about you getting injured because you're too close to the work I'm doing." Or something to that effect.
  • Posted 16 Jun 2013 03:26
  • Modified 16 Jun 2013 03:28 by poster
  • By L1ftmech
  • joined 25 Apr'12 - 394 messages
  • Tennessee, United States

This is ONLY to be used to report flooding, spam, advertising and problematic (harassing, abusive or crude) posts.

Indicates mandatory field
Upcoming industry events …
February 5-7, 2026 - Mumbai, India
April 14-16, 2026 - São Paulo, Brazil
June 9-11, 2026 - Johannesburg, South Africa
Editorial calendar - planned features
CONSTRUCTION FORKLIFTS
HANDLING GOODS IN THE COLD
LOADING/UNLOADING FREIGHT
BROWNFIELD AUTOMATION
FORKLIFT ATTACHMENTS
BATTERY AFFORDABILITY AND LIFETIME
FORKLIFT SAFETY
SMV (Konecranes) 4632CC5
Balling, Denmark
New - Sale
SMV (Konecranes) 4632CC5
Balling, Denmark
New - Sale
Latest job alerts …
Muncie, IN, United States