Finding a Snap On Truck or Driver

[bob15]

Instead of sticking this onto the end another thread, I though maybe to make a new thread.....

If someone wants to find a Snap On truck or driver in their area, all you need to do is go to the Snap On website and click the button "find a franchisee".

 

[sberry]

I hear it really helps if you tape some 100$ bills to your forehead too,

 

[Need more space]

I'm a one man shop so dont have the trucks stop, when I needed one I went to bigger local garage and asked when their snap on guy would be there. Simply went back and walked on the truck, also the dude was super cool when I told him I didn't need weekly service and always given me a break in price!

 

[bcradio]

I hear it really helps if you tape some 100$ bills to your forehead too,

 

[Waggoner72]

I'm glad someone posted this. I used this feature a while back, put it that I was just a residential person, not in a shop or anything. Got a call the next morning from a snap-on driver and told him where I was. He told me he made a stop on Wednesdays right down the road at a local shop and now I meet him there if I need something. No hassle whatsoever.

 

[softailgarage]

If you want to contact a Cornwell truck, you can do it the same way, the button is on the upper left corner of the home page. www.corwelltools.com (and you wont need a fistfull of hundreds like Snap On)

 

[abk241]

Good to know...I used to just keep my eyes peeled for a parked SO truck when needed.

 

[DodgeMech]

If you want to contact a Cornwell truck, you can do it the same way, the button is on the upper left corner of the home page. www.corwelltools.com (and you wont need a fistfull of hundreds like Snap On)

yeah, but you could get the cornwell stuff cheaper with other names on it

 

[Need more space]

yeah, but you could get the cornwell stuff cheaper with other names on it

Like which names???

 

[DodgeMech]

IR for the air tools, and i'm sure many others for ratchet, screwdrivers, etc...the point i was trying to make was that corwell is marked up as well

 

[Tronyadorable]

I hear it really helps if you tape some 100$ bills to your forehead too,

Or your credit score........

 

[dwatsonkc]

I just followed the truck to his next stop. Now I just text him and tell him what time I can meet. He lets me know where he is, or we meet somewhere.


He's done pretty well with me chasing him down. Bought a box and had him fill it up.

 

[Beemer533]

I hear it really helps if you tape some 100$ bills to your forehead too,

that cracks me up...

 

[softailgarage]

IR for the air tools, and i'm sure many others for ratchet, screwdrivers, etc...the point i was trying to make was that corwell is marked up as well

Of course, it's a business too. As far as the product goes the same holds true for Snap On and brand names. Yes, both SO & Cornwell make their own hard line (wrenches,sockets, chisels,etc.) but both carry names such as IR, Milwaukee, Gearwrench, etc. Are the tool trucks expensive? Hell yeah, but keep in mind, SO, Cornwell, Matco & MAC were set up basically for the professional auto mechanic and auto repair industry. They're not HD or HF, they dont cater to the public and they're in the loan business, selling tools on credit, interest free BTW, so yeah, your gonna pay, not to mention they bring the tools to you, so your also paying for convinence.

 

[Lassen Forge]

If you're working it is worth the $$$ to have the tool store show up at your door every couple weeks... you pay for them to do that, for their extending you no intrest credit, and in some cases working with you to come up with a solution to a weird problem you had.

You have to pay for the convenience of not shutting down or taking time off to chase a tool they will have on their truck (or get rush shipped to you), and have it be of a professional quality and guaranteed not to warp/tweak/crack/strip out.

By the way - when I turned a wrench for a living, both our Matco and Snappy truck gave out a sheet with their stop schedule on it, so if you *did* have a SHTF moment with something, you could chase them down. When my 1/2" torque wrench went to heck on an inframe, it was a 20 minute drive to where he was that morning, caught the snappy truck, and he swapped it out then and there. I had less than an hour downtime, and that list made it possible.

A good truck guy is worth his (or her) weight in platinum, they go through a certian kind of hell to keep you up and running... I think it was Mac or Matco, if you had a tool you had designed and were using for a certain job, and they didn't, they would give you a royalty for something like 3 or 5 years to copy it, and then make and sell it. I had a homemade Detroit water tower wrench (I coul pull them without ripping the top end apart - very cool beans back then) and they took the idea and copied it, and it paid off - I didn't make a fortune, but it made a dent in my tool bill (and I ended up with a lot of their stuff...)

 

[crewchief888]

on one hand,
it's nice to have a truck stop by once a week for the convienence,

on the other hand,
tool trucks are i sometimes have a tendency to "impulse" buy.

if i need warranty on broken stuff, a replacement is an email away....


mac and matco have virtually disappeared around our shop. havent seen either of them for several years.

 

[Need more space]

Of course, it's a business too. As far as the product goes the same holds true for Snap On and brand names. Yes, both SO & Cornwell make their own hard line (wrenches,sockets, chisels,etc.) but both carry names such as IR, Milwaukee, Gearwrench, etc. Are the tool trucks expensive? Hell yeah, but keep in mind, SO, Cornwell, Matco & MAC were set up basically for the professional auto mechanic and auto repair industry. They're not HD or HF, they dont cater to the public and they're in the loan business, selling tools on credit, interest free BTW, so yeah, your gonna pay, not to mention they bring the tools to you, so your also paying for convinence.

I never new the trucks were interest free, I've always paid cash to get a discount. Happy I never asked might have bought more then I needed lol, what's the franchise rules on you doing a a Cornwell day or group buy?

 

[firebox40dash5]

I never new the trucks were interest free, I've always paid cash to get a discount. Happy I never asked might have bought more then I needed lol, what's the franchise rules on you doing a a Cornwell day or group buy?

Truck credit (the driver's money) is "interest free", lines of credit from the brand usually ain't. But when you can pay cash up front for a lower price, even truck credit isn't truly interest free. You're paying to borrow the money (by paying full price), it's just not expressed in % per period.