Valentine Day

14-Feb' 09

The day of love. but what am i doing today. I am standing among 438 unsold trucks of different models with a notepad in hand and trying to figure out what mistakes it already has. (Note : It's not been sold yet )
The recession has made the inventry level of RSO (Regional Sales Office ) so high that there is not enough space to keep all the product.
So, where was i?
Oh ya I was trying to locate defects in trucks and bus chesis.
an average truck has about ten thousand parts. Even if your manufacturing process is 99.9% perfect (which is not possible in india, believe me )
then you will have about ten parts malfunctioning. Now those ten parts may create enough problems sometimes to effect your vehicle performance or safety critical issue.
So i am standing under the sun, on a bus chesis noting down whether the anti-roll bar nut is loose or engine fan belt tension is less or mounting bracket is vibrating and so on. and then i feel thrusty.
but the news is that the RSO is not having water. Then you are told that a new fully built bus model has come from a plant on a truck-trailor which is ultra-low-floor.
you are asked to suggest how to get this 10 tonn thing down withough damaging it.
(Why the people who send it didnt have a though about how the @#$% we will unmount it from the trailor.
the ground clearance between the bus chesis and floor is about 150mm. the trailor has no sliding platform. the ROS has no means to unload it. so they forward it to factory.
(again there ppl will curse RSO ppl why we send it there)

and then i m back to the bus journey of 26km which will take me to my A/C room in the heart of chennai.
so there is no love, no red roses, no girls, no kisses, no valentine gifts. all i got is trucks, heat, and no water.
But still i love my job......!!!!!!!!!