So annoying.......just a little rant

most places offer free delivery these days.

 

THIS. I always charge for gas, time, and usage. A furniture run is $40-$60. Helping a friend out with a trash run, car repair or something is gas; maybe $10. If somebody is in trouble (i.e. bad partner situation, needs to get out NOW), no charge.

 

I'm with you on that. Hauled a Chevy blazer for a lady and when we backed the blazer off the trailer it came loose from the ball and crushed my tailgate....bad thing was I just had the whole bed repainted on the truck.

 

+1 to getting out with a bad back. Many people will not ask me because they know I love my truck and I dont let people borrow it. My parents are an exception to this because they have always been there for me and I know they would take care of my truck and if they by some accident it was scratched/dented, they would repair and return it with a full tank of gas. I wrecked their cars enough as a young kid I think i owe them. If you know me in person you can easily tell that i have a bad back just from seeing me. After 4 months of having a truck, yesterday a coworker asked if i could help her move a mattress... I blew her off with the back excuse. If it was a good friend or someone I respected I would help for some gas and/or food.

 

Smart lady there. Been asked about 10 times to move stuff on the weekends...sigh. Usually lazy family members too.

 

That's why you get the short bed option and tell them it's only a 5 foot bed

I can't tell you how many times I got asked to pick up stuff or move stuff when I had my CrewMax Tundra tho.

 

I personally tell people I drive a Prius for this exact reason.

 

The young value the experience and not owning anything . So let them experience hearing no , or call Uber and request a truck .

 

Now a days people don't value their own time, little more yours.

Even though I'm unemployed and my parents pay for my gas, I still tell people no. It's very simple, I value my time.

One day this lady asked me to help move her fridge so she could clean behind it, I politely said no. Unfortunalty, my grandma's back never did fully recover.

 

All depends on how good looking she is.

 

Last Xmas 3 days after I got my 2016, a relative said "the bed isn't that big"
I said "I didn't buy it to haul your shit"

 

"friendly services"

 

Easiest solution.

 

I never help people move shit. I did enough of that in my life and yet not one person has ever helped me move other than my parents and people I lived with. So if you ask me to help you move, all you get is

 

My wife an I helped move the 3 kids several times each . Then helped the grand kids a few times . I aways owned a truck and trailer to use. Now I am too far away and getting older I am done. I gave my old trailer to the oldest . Now he can be the go too guy . As for my new Taco , here in Arkansas everyone has a truck so it is not a problem . In fact there are not many cars around here , cars are a second vehicle .

 

Same here. If I owned a truck in my 20s friends would probably ask all the time. As an adult not so much. I think you eventually reach an age where you stop asking friends for help moving and stuff like that. I used to have friends help me move and vice versa. No in my late 30s we hire movers.

 

I like it too.