Do you ever question your belief results? (Perhaps you’ve never heard the term “belief results,” which could be because I just made it up — it just seems to best explain what I want to share with you in this column.)
In my travels as editor of this magazine, I’ve listened in on numerous tradespeople at meetings and events lamenting how entitled the younger generation of workers are, and how they generally lack ambition and work ethic.
In 1970, when I started in the heating industry, there was a battle going on between the folks who believed in catching and controlling the air in a hydronic system by holding it inside a plain-steel compression tank, and those who thought it was best to catch the air and just get rid of it using automatic air vents and diaphragm-type compression tanks.
It’s déjà vu all over again” is a famous quote by the late, great Yogi Berra. I’ve lived this scenario, and I’m betting you have, too. I’m talking about callbacks — the woe of the contracting industry.
In just the past five years, cargo vans have undergone significant improvements — some obvious, such as increased fuel efficiency and connectivity, and others less obvious, such as improved safety features and total cost of ownership.