It Must Be HAIL Season in Texas... Look at this trailer wrap I just saw!

Roofguy, I have a lot of truck stories. Will never forget where I come from. It is good when I find a guy who is struggling and he will listen to my stories and improve his business. Most just keep doing what they are doing and wonder why they can not make it work. I know you go through this too.

I was tearing this little flat roof off on a July 4. It was a resturant they closed down I had to do it that day. The tempature was 98 degrees. Threw it in the back of my pickup. Went to the dump to throw it off a couple of days later. Would not come out. Here it was coal tar. It molded itself to the bed and became one big lump. It was still there when I got rid of the truck.

Every time I went to the dump, I would get a little out with an axe. LOL

Ditto Lefty & Mike.

We had a bright orange F-350 crew cab dually that the engine/carb caught on fire every time you stopped at a stoplight. We had a routine, I'd stop and my brother would jump out, lift the hood and smother the fire with a sweatshirt.

Had an old dumptruck that, if you forgot and tried to enter or exit through the driver side door, the door would fall off and onto the parking lot.

Drove from Dallas to Tampa in a dumptruck pulling a Vecloader 422 using a lawnchair as the driver's seat.

Ya do what ya gotta do.

I started with me and my lawyer buddies. We did not have a truck, ladder or hammer. But we did have $3 million and we bought a couple of adjusters, and rented one more. We bought an NRCA/ BBB / Master Elite/ Pro Roofer membership.

We signed up with the Mafia/ Coyotes/ Insurance Companies program to import our workforce. I can't tell you how much that cost or they will kill me

We did not have to learn to threaten and cajole Insurance Companies, or figure out supplements. We had already learned that in Law School. Good thing I went to Notre Dame with the presidents of Allstate and State Farm.

Best roofing training I ever had!

I started out with my hand tools. I borrowed the truck and ladder. I got a lot of work off of farmers when I started. They had the equipment I just needed to get to their place. People would drop the ladder at the job I would drive there in my car and do the work. Borrow a truck at the end of the job and clean up the garbage.

Finally had enough for a cheap truck. Had to have cardboard with me at all times. Needed to put it under the engine so I did not put oil spots in their driveway. Every job after that I would buy some tool.

Those were the days throw the shingles in the back of the pickup. Go to the dump and throw the shingles off the back of the pickup.

Today some customers tell my salesmen and workers "you should have seen him when he started", then tell them some of the stories.

I gotta admit, that trailer is a HUGE step up from anything I had when I first started.

I had one ladder one hand torch one dragon wagon two 100# propane tanks one 40# one 20# and a handful of hand tools. If it didn't fit in my single cab pick-up, it wasn't making it to the job.

It is all class! Yeah right!

Is that thing hooked up to the car?

I would have just left the trailer plain so no one would know! :laugh: