The thing is most of us have to supply our own tools. Look at older mechanics and unless they are in a shop bay environment where peer pressure might matter, you are paid for your skills, not your tool brand. It’s just impractical to use tool truck brands long term. Either way then you are stuck driving across town or to the next town on your time to catch the truck to replace your socket wrenches. So every couple years the tool truck brand changes. Tool truck drivers quickly reach a point where they get burned out and get out if the business. Typically the guy doing that doesn’t know how to use the tools they own. It’s like lifting your truck and putting Mickey Thompson tires on it or wearing Under Armor shirts and Duluth Trading pants. They sometimes fall to peer pressure too. Second the reason guys buy those tool truck brands is because they want to show off. Do high markups are needed compared to buying from an industrial supply house or even a local automotive store where 10-20% is normal. Guys running tool trucks have an insane amount of cost in inventory on the truck and they don’t make much money on their routes in the first place. Even if you get a 50% discount in school you are still paying 150%. If you notice older mechanics have less of those, if at all.įirst thing, those tool markups are normally 300%.
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