Hyper-Organize your truck
The best equipment in the field is make sure you are extremely organized in your truck. Your truck is your more important tool (besides yourself) and techs spend the majority of time in them.
Here are a few tips to keep organized:
- Travel with as little as possible, the more stuff in your truck the worse it is to get organized
- Color code boxes to take with you on the road
- Use the DECKED system to organize and secure the back of your pickup truck Check out Decked organization system here
- Tool box that is lockable in the back
- https://decked.com/
- Keep the boxes of Chalk in the box
- Keep garbage bags under the seats to get rid of garbage daily.
- Make sure you ALWAYS have 3 of everything you will need for your job. Railroad Chalk, PITCH GAUGE, shingle gauges, cougar paw pads, business cards, TAPE MEASUREs (get cheap backups at HARBOR FREIGHT to give to the adjusters https://www.harborfreight.com/
- ORGANIZE/ORGANIZE/ORGANIZE and de-clutter will keep you on top if your game.
- DO NOT SHOP at Home Depot or Lowes unless you have to, https://www.harborfreight.com/ is HALF or more the cost of these places
