Posted by jdemaris on January 09, 2011 at 11:42:29 from (67.142.130.21):
In Reply to: Re: Watch out . . . posted by 135 Fan on January 09, 2011 at 11:11:42:
We didn't require anything like that, but I was never on the money-receiving-end of the counter - so choosing/accepting/rejecting people was not my job.
I'm wondering - just how is somebody supposed to prove he/she has experience or has common sense? I know many who have run heavy-equipment their entire lives and have no paperwork to prove it. A CDL doesn't quallfy somebody to run a dozer. Neither does being a farmer, logger, truck driver, etc. Also no such thing as "licensed contractors" in many rural areas. And even if there was, sometimes a "contractor" is just a person that contracts work out and has no personal experience with running equipment.
Now, if you could make somebody leave a $250,000 cash deposit - you might have some wiggle-room for jerks. But, it's likely the jerks won't have the cash.
I forgot to note one other problem with rentals that we had. Theft. We had several Deere crawlers and two skidders stolen. Somebody would rent for a day with fake ID and never come back. We were missing two, almost new Deere machines for a year. A 450C dozer with winch and a 440C skidder. Ends up they were only 15 miles away the whole time. A logger reported his own worn-out crawler and skidder stolen. Collected insurance. Then sold the stuff, and used the ones he stole from us. I had to go over with the New York BCI investigators to take apart the 450C searching for serial # Deere had hidden (for theft purposes).
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