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If its not an everday part ( or sometimes if), phone first and find out where it is.
Sometimes it not. How close is the wholesaler? Wheres the part?

wall mart is 3 miles hahahahahahahahahahhha

Suppliers

Most within 5 miles and 90% within 3 miles of each other. Trane parts 25 miles away.

Parts: Gemaire and Bond supply are a block away
Equipment: Noland co.(Ruud)is about 1/2 mile away. I can't believe some of you have to drive 75+ miles for parts,I hope you are billing this time out!

I hope Ro Bo Tec posts on this thread if/when he gets to Iraq....



Seattle Pioneer

35 miles there and 35 miles back

we have supply houses no more than 6 miles from anywhere that we go out to. the bad part is we don't have accounts at most of them so we end up driving 15 miles or more to get parts. we have about 8 in my town

Originally posted by jpb2
Carns, i'm 1200+ miles away. A lotof my territory is 60-80 miles out

Will keep that in mind, cause if ya gotta fly it in ya gotta fly it in.

about 15mins any direction to a parts place 'round here.

thats michaels, united, ferguson, northeastern, anyone...we're located in baltimore, so if it can come in by boat train, road or plane, we can get to it in 20 minutes. lmao

You name them and they are within 15 miles. The closest is about 4-5 miles.

Some of you guys ned to get out of the sticks. 2 under 2 miles from the shop. Then we have Trane, Lennox, Johnson, Johnstone, Airparts, Comfort, American distributors, and what ever else you could want about 10 - 15 due south of our office. Another 10 - 15 you got every refrigeration company in Dallas.

Originally posted by AAone
Man, it would kill me to have to drive 75 miles to get parts. But on that same note, here in Atlanta the traffic is so bad that sometimes it can kill you to have to drive 20 miles.

Sounds alot like Austin traffic.


But I'm with Popa Dice. Quite a few good ones all over the city.
Nice selection.

If it ain't urgent, it is well worth having Brown do something for you.
I think they lost my tony paco sauce though...

A whole slew of them within a mile.

Man, it would kill me to have to drive 75 miles to get parts. But on that same note, here in Atlanta the traffic is so bad that sometimes it can kill you to have to drive 20 miles.

Man I thought I had it bad here in Connecticut! We have 2 good supply houses in Groton that sell air conditioning parts. That's it. We cover all of southeastern connecticut, so if we are on the other side of the conty, we have to go all the way to groton to get something. It pisses me off. Every time I have to go out of the way like that I think back to the days when I lived in Kansas, when all of our work was in one town. If we needed something, we drove to the closest supply house, and if they didn't have it, we drove to the other one on the other side of town. I will never know why it can't be that way here.

A lot of times now if I need something and I'm on the other side of the county, I will just tell the customer that we have to order the part, we will be back in 1-2 days. Then I call the office, who calls the supply house, who delivers it to the shop, and then we go install it.

A lot faster when you have lots of work ahead of you than driving all over the place. The bad thing is, if the 2 supply houses in groton don't have what we need, we have to yet still order it from another supply house somewhere in an0other part of the state.

Carns, i'm 1200+ miles away. A lotof my territory is 60-80 miles out

I hope some of you charge for travel time and parts pick up.
Lots of em not that far away, a few miles or so, some certain distributors maybe 15 miles or so...thankfully.
Civilization does have it's good points.

We have it pretty good, one within a block, another within a 1/2 mile, and another just up the street within a block from that one.

We have one wholesaler here. The other ones are 450 miles away as the crow flies, longer by boat.