Clerk changing oil

[drpibb81]

I am the night clerk / car washer and I was told last week that I need to check the trucks oil everyday now. Is this part of my job description? This is a small building (14-16 routes normally) but shouldn't this be the mechanics job?

 

[Babagounj]

2 things here ;
1. Work as directed
2. Car Washers have been checking oil for decades.

 

[rod]

wait until next week when they want you to clean the toilets

 

[Rack em]

You get paid by the hour, just take you time checking the oil

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

wait until next week when they want you to clean the toilets

I cleaned toilets and swept floors when I started p/t in 1976. I was glad just to get the hours. lol.

 

[Catatonic]

I am the night clerk / car washer and I was told last week that I need to check the trucks oil everyday now. Is this part of my job description? This is a small building (14-16 routes normally) but shouldn't this be the mechanics job?

I think they are conveying that the answer is "No", it is not the mechanics job.

You a gurl?

 

[Indecisi0n]

Washers here do oil changes and tire rotations.

 

[Nimnim]

My understanding about the car washer position is they were supposed to wash and park the package cars for the preload, but also check the fluid levels(brake, oil, steering, wiper etc. . .) I know many locations don't do it but checking the levels isn't complicated or time consuming, and if the fluids were an issue I'm not sure if they informed the mechanics or just topped them off themselves.

Checking isn't changing though so your post contradicts the thread subject.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

My understanding about the car washer position is they were supposed to wash and park the package cars for the preload, but also check the fluid levels(brake, oil, steering, wiper etc. . .) I know many locations don't do it but checking the levels isn't complicated or time consuming, and if the fluids were an issue I'm not sure if they informed the mechanics or just topped them off themselves.

Checking isn't changing though so your post contradicts the thread subject.

Yes, they would top the fluids off, if needed.

 

[wayfair]

They would top my fluids every night.

So coolant would overflow out of the reservoir everyday and the same customers would tell me I had a leak.

 

[Babagounj]

Had this one PC that was always low on oil.
So every time oil was added.
Until a mechanic came along one day to inform the car wash that this PC's oil stick was wrong , it was to short.

 

[allergictotape]

we check oils and other fluids on Friday nights.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I think they are conveying that the answer is "No", it is not the mechanics job.

You a gurl?

No I'm not

 

[oldngray]

Checking the oil (not changing it) is part of car wash. Not the clerk part of that combo job.

In any event, work as directed.

 

[Wally]

Spill oil all over the manifold so it gets stinky as it starts to burn off . That's what they do here.

 

[Dr.Brownz]

They do that here and my center is bigger than yours

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Should you accept this responsibility, please know it is a simple one, but it can be done wrong. I have lost more than one engine due to the person in charge not wiping the stick before taking a reading.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

It is a Teamster job here and us mechanics are not allowed to go out and do it as an end in itself on all vehicles.

 

[Returntosender]

Should you accept this responsibility, please know it is a simple one, but it can be done wrong. I have lost more than one engine due to the person in charge not wiping the stick before taking a reading.

Don't diesel enigines give wrong reading if the enigine is hot?

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Don't diesel enigines give wrong reading if the enigine is hot?

Some require some sitting time for oil to drain back to the pan. Not so much a heat thing.