We use hot shot a lot where I work. Something will break at 3 in the afternoon and then when I come in for night shift I'll be told someone is driving the part or material up from 8 hours away and I'll have to meet them at the gate to get them on site. Its sorta funny when the part is something like a bolt that costs like $40 and the shipping is thousands of dollars. I also experience the whole thing where you have people with multiple trades a lot as well. Where I'm at most people have 1 trade and that is it but we will have people from other areas show up where they essentially have 3 different trades. There just isnt enough work for 3 people in those other areas so they all have multiple trades but where I'm at we can keep everyone busy so most people just have one trade. I'm in a management position now though so I have learned many different trades even if I'm not qualified to do all of them. I honestly dont even know if I could do my own trade well anymore since its been so long since I actually had to do that work.
We use hot shot a lot where I work. Something will break at 3 in the afternoon and then when I come in for night shift I'll be told someone is driving the part or material up from 8 hours away and I'll have to meet them at the gate to get them on site. Its sorta funny when the part is something like a bolt that costs like $40 and the shipping is thousands of dollars. I also experience the whole thing where you have people with multiple trades a lot as well. Where I'm at most people have 1 trade and that is it but we will have people from other areas show up where they essentially have 3 different trades. There just isnt enough work for 3 people in those other areas so they all have multiple trades but where I'm at we can keep everyone busy so most people just have one trade. I'm in a management position now though so I have learned many different trades even if I'm not qualified to do all of them. I honestly dont even know if I could do my own trade well anymore since its been so long since I actually had to do that work.