oh crappy day

Somewhere near Rock Springs, Wyoming the transmission in Ryan’s truck gave out. He managed to limp it to a dealership who estimated it to cost $10,000 to fix. After many google searches and several phone calls we discovered that price was way too high. Thousands of miles from home with a job waiting on him and no other choices. He was stuck and they knew it. It’s horrible to realize that people would take advantage of someone in a situation like that.

Basically it came down to three options. 1. Wait until Monday and let the dealership fix the tranny. 2. Trade for a different truck. 3. Send my dad and brother out to trailer it home.

Eventually the dealership came within $500 of what we’d researched. They had expected him to jump on it right away. When he didn’t they knew he was calling around and didn’t want GM corporate to catch wind of it. However, after they took a good look at it they realized there was more wrong than just a transmission so the estimate jumped back up to $10,000. So I think… last time I talked to him he was considering trading.

He called Incident Command and told him the soonest he could get it fixed was Monday considering the holiday. They still have a 12 hour drive so the soonest he could get to Redding, California would be Tuesday. They told him to get it fixed and get out there. However Ryan just talked to them and they may cancel him b/c they have other resources that are closer than he is.

A friend of mine said in times like this her mom always used to say “This too shall pass.” While it helps, a little, it doesn’t make dealing with this any easier. And I’m pretty much removed from the whole thing. Poor Ryan is out there dealing with all of it by himself.