The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile

[Richard Morgan]

When you're transporting actions in the truck bed, do you have  a bed cover, or is  it open to the elements?

Richard Morgan


----- Original Message ----
From: David Chadwick <chadwick61 at cox.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2007 9:43:57 AM
Subject: Re: The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile


Doesn't anyone use a truck for their business? No discussion has been offered on this type of vehicle. With a model that has space for a jump seat (04 Chevy. Colorado) behind the driver there is ample room for parts and repairs items and the truck bed will fit al types of actions. I enjoy the fact that it only takes a short time to heat or cool the cab space whereas the Astro Van used to have took a long time to acclimate. Particularly important in Las Vegas where the temperature in the cab can get close to two hundred in the summer so the A/C has to work fast. Or, on jobs that are out of town and where I only need basic tuning tools I'll take the Harley. 55 MPG and the touring bags fit my tools cases nicely. Only a little helmet hair to fix. 
 
David C. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Greg Newell 
To: Pianotech List 
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile


Has anyone tried to simply rent the car they're thinking of buying for a week or two to see if it works out like they hope?

Greg Newell

At 10:02 PM 5/4/2007, you wrote:

Kurt,
 
There was a discussion of this just last month.  Go to the ptg list archives, select pianotech and then select April.  The subject is car mileage.
 
Have fun.  I think our next one might be a Prius.
 
Barbara Richmond, RPT

----- Original Message ----- 

From: kurt baxter 

To: Pianotech List 

Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:57 PM

Subject: The Quest for the Ideal Piano Technician Automobile


My beloved VW hatchback (with back seat removed for bountiful action cradle space)

is starting to feel its age and 188,000 miles and I am pondering what I will do when it 

finally goes to the great big salvage yard in the sky... 


In your opinions, what is the all time best suited car for piano work? 

Including, most vitally: 


---Easy transport of grand and upright actions 

---Room for needed tools

---Decent gas mileage 




(Also, I was eying a Honda Insight the other day, and was wondering if

any ambitious tech out there has tried to fit an action in one of those

gasoline sippers... Maybe in the back hatch with the passenger seat 

all the way forward? Am I totally deluding myself?)




Highly subjective opinions welcome.



 [k]urt







                                  

Greg Newell
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