Record year for us and not in a good way, first of this year the phone stopped ringing basically, last 2 years we were doing 20-30 jobs a month average, this year I think we've done maybe 40 jobs total, and despite our prices not going up any, we've been losing closer to 90% of our bids where we used to lose 60%
nothing has changed in how we do business, I guess the election year and how crazy the economy has been just washed all the work away, I've been considering running 3 hours east to do storm work, but thats just far enough that I would have to be sleeping in the truck instead of driving home every day, and I don't think theres any money in it.
of course, the small companies with no insurance are staying busy because they are working for almost free, or actually free to keep the wood!
I might actually go get a 9-5 and only do tree stuff on the weekends till work picks back up, last 2 years we were working 4-6 days a week every single week of the year, now I don't have a single job or quote scheduled, and almost every job we've done this year was small half day jobs
this is going down in our records as the worst year to date, fingers crossed over the next few months work will start coming back to normal as the election gets behind us!
hopefully nobody else here is having a year like mine, if this year went like the last 2 I would have bought a crane and a lift by now, ended up selling my bucket truck to pay some bills and the burn out is setting in hard
nothing has changed in how we do business, I guess the election year and how crazy the economy has been just washed all the work away, I've been considering running 3 hours east to do storm work, but thats just far enough that I would have to be sleeping in the truck instead of driving home every day, and I don't think theres any money in it.
of course, the small companies with no insurance are staying busy because they are working for almost free, or actually free to keep the wood!
I might actually go get a 9-5 and only do tree stuff on the weekends till work picks back up, last 2 years we were working 4-6 days a week every single week of the year, now I don't have a single job or quote scheduled, and almost every job we've done this year was small half day jobs
this is going down in our records as the worst year to date, fingers crossed over the next few months work will start coming back to normal as the election gets behind us!
hopefully nobody else here is having a year like mine, if this year went like the last 2 I would have bought a crane and a lift by now, ended up selling my bucket truck to pay some bills and the burn out is setting in hard
