Heads up about a job site in downtown Austin I visited last Friday

I was out at a high rise project off Congress Avenue and noticed the temporary load chart placards were peeling off bad on one of the boom trucks. The operator told me the print shop ran them on cheap vinyl so the sun baked them illegible in like 3 weeks. You gotta check yours if you're working a hot site this summer because misreading those numbers could get ugly fast. Anyone else run into this with their rig lately?

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ramirez.sage21d ago

Honestly this is just how everything is made now, nothing holds up because nobody cares about quality anymore. It's the same with phone cases and car parts, they all fall apart way faster than they used to.

brookerobinson21d ago

Gotta laugh so I don't cry, right? @ramirez.sage you nailed it - I bought a "heavy duty" phone case last month and it's already cracked on the corners (which is impressive considering I barely drop my phone). My boyfriend's car's alternator gave out at like 80,000 miles and the mechanic just shrugged and said "they don't make em like they used to." I'm convinced companies build stuff to break just so we have to buy new ones every couple years. My grandma's washing machine from 1987 is still chugging along but I've replaced two in the last decade alone. Makes me wonder if I'm just buying garbage or if I'm secretly really rough on things (probably both if I'm being honest).