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Turned Off on Texas: Protect Yourselves
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Posted by Ryan on May 22, 2002 at 19:01:39 from (209.143.11.90):
I have a story that I want to share with you fine tractor folks that I think all of us can benefit from. My dad, a friend, and I left Monday morning 5:30 a.m. from Cincinnati, Ohio for the town of Giddings, in south Texas. We were delivering a tractor that we sold down that way, a working tractor we never used, and we took turns driving. We got down that way and unloaded the tractor at 3:30 a.m. the next morning. We were tired, but determined to keep moving, we drove another 4.5 hours to the little town of Ovalo, Texas. I hadn't realized that we would be within a couple of hundred miles of where I had a tractor that I had been trying, yet unsucessfully, to get moved for some time. Now here is the juice. I bought a moline U down there in this little town over a year ago. I bought it from T&T Tractor Salvage, ran by Troy Oliver of the same town. I called the guy (5 miles from Ovalo) to see about coming and picking up the tractor and he said that he no longer had it, that it was sold. Well I couldn't figure this out seeing I had already paid for the tractor. He said that he sold the tractor because it had been there over a year and that it had eaten the value of itself up in storage fees, that he charges one dollar a day for storage after a year. Well, since the tractor was mine then I should be able to pay the 1.00 a day for storage and get my tractor, correct? Anyway he said the tractor was not there, that he had given it to someone to haul other tractors away, and he stated that he had done this to many other people because "he lost contact with them". Well I had a problem with this because I was never told by him that he has a sign hanging at his place that says after 1 year he can sell the tractor at public auction. He failed to mention his policy to me in the half dozen times I have talked to him in the past 15 months, the last being in January. Now there are two sides to every story. Indeed that tractor had been there for a long while, maybe as long as 1.5 years. Nobody likes to have someone else's tractor sit around there place, that I realize. I had tried many times to get that rascal out of Texas, and I had similiar issues with another tractor in Texas (that we had to go get)with a third of the time. However, the fact that he never tried to call me, never told me of his policy, etc leads me to beleive that the fine print on the wall of his place in Ovalo, may collectively add up to a nice bonus for him. Now I chalk this one up on the board of life lessions. Granted I only paid 350.00 dollars, but it is gone with nothing to show for it. I didn't feel like buying the tractor again for another 300.00 and going to claim it in Abileene, it just wasn't worth it. I wasn't about to spend alot of time fussing with this guy on his shady ways of doing business after having been on the road 28 hours or so. So here is what I have learned from this whole ordeal and my other dealings. I recommend that when you buy a tractor, make the seller put in writing everything related to your transaction. I was down there with nothing. He never told me about his policy, all he ever told me was that after a year he starts getting on guys about moving them. Well, he never got with me and I am out, so please, ask about how long a tractor can sit, get a serial number, and get it in writing. I will think twice, maybe theree times about buying a tractor in a state like Texas. Texas is a big state and pretty sparse in places, something to consider when you go to buy a tractor. I never thought I would have that kind of trouble getting a tractor hauled. Well, we got home a few hours ago, 2850 miles, after driving 54 of the last 60 hours, tired as I am, I felt like I had better share my experience so that it may be prevented in the future. I never thought it would happen to me, with all the tractor dealings I have been involved. I have been burned a couple of times now, and I may never have faith in a man's word again, but hopefully you can see where I have went wrong and you will protect yourselves. Ryan
p.s If you got a tractor down there, (or anywhere else)I would be calling and finding out if it is still there.
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