As a contractor myself, I turned down as many '“Fire calls” as I accepted. Having year round work is the name of the game. Pissing off a long term, good customer who uses you day in, day out ALWAYS pencils out better then pissing them off for the 1-3 fire assignments a year. If you are a Owner Operator working single shift. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze. Now if you have employees, that’s a different story. I’ve rented equipment to cover my DAY JOBS at a break even rate, to accept the fire assignment. I’ve worked for people who have LOST $$ with rental equipment on a customer’s job site to take the fire assignment too.
But as MANY have stated,. Not having your PPE in your equipment/vehicle is foolish as not having your safety vest, boots and hard hat on a construction jobs item.
This only reinforces the 7-P’s.