Right! I was in construction and they mostly rented or leased their equipment so we really had no upkeep responsibility. I was not ordinarily a machine operator but had certifications to operate most available equipment, although I seldom did.
I was a commercial carpenter, who was employed by the general contractor. And when the superintendent for the general contractor had me to do anything requiring such I readily complied.
Once I was left to operate this Lull with a 65 ft boom, carrying other carpenters around a big school house project we were on, and had quite a few interesting days there. I had gotten another call from another company I had been waiting on and had to bail.
Dropping by a few days later to pick up my check I ran into the guys I'd been lifting all around the project and this one fella said "we sure appreciate you being a good driver", after we had almost got in some deep doodee.
We had been working our way around a large school building tucking in the metal roofing around the edges, and at one point I had followed a trail I didn't know. Only one guy was in the lift but as I proceeded to cross a wet spot the Lull went almost 45 degrees over. I heard the fella say "this ain't good!".
I grabbed a switch very rarely used, but it could level that thing even with the axles at a 45 the basket was at level, and after getting across the mini swamp, and with him standing level I said, "we'll call this one a detour from here on"
I loved construction, did it my whole career in one form or another