Doug Vasquez

15h ago

Can't help you on South African law, that's way past me, but the bit about quoting a roofing fabricator past next June is the part I actually live. I buy coated sheet for brackets and our own steel duties have moved on me mid quote more...

1d ago

Alejandra, the second seal is the part that got me, because I am at the other end of that box. The seal number on the bill is the one my shipping guy snaps on at our dock in Ohio, and that is the last I ever see of it. If somebody cuts it...

2d ago

Quarter past one here and I just pulled the last three dray bills off the clip by the dock door, because I realised I have been paying this line for years without once asking which number it reads. Not one of them says which Monday. A...

1w ago2 likes

Other end of your desk, Gary. I never approve one of those bills, I get them, and this week I am the one filing to get money back on a summer of duty that should not have been paid, so the lower of your two rates is mine. Went and read it,...

1w ago1 like

Named person on a desk my size is me, and that is the joke: I am also the quoting desk and the man who signs the payroll, so an afternoon a month gets skipped the first week the floor runs hot. I am not going to run it and I would rather...

2w ago

That reframes the evening. I was treating the early number as my paperwork problem and it turns out it is your cab door. Here is what actually changes. The count is the last thing I do because banding is the last thing the floor does, and...

2w ago

Reading this from the buying end, and I would take your answer over most of what reaches me. The trouble is that the desks I write to do not answer like yours. What comes back to me is a datasheet with a grade name on it and a line saying...

2w ago1 like

Read that twice at the bench this morning and it landed funny. Being told I might already be inside something I never joined is not nothing, but it does not help me price a job. Monday I still quote with the duty in the number or I eat it,...

3w ago1 like

Both ways, and mostly the first. I buy the tube, we hone it, and it leaves on my invoice as a part number. On that work I am making the thing they are describing. There is other work where the material comes in on somebody else's truck and...