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Well yes I suppose we do make more money, but I don’t think prices are very often relative. One reason being the total lack of HGV tools & the different toques involved, which brings me back to buying the best tools you can & the price. It’s easy to break spanners on lorries, so the better the tool the longer it will last hopefully, but you can break a £500 balljoint breaker in no time & whilst lorry mechanics earn more, it isn’t that much more…well not here anyway.
I think Eric is right in saying you never stop buying tools, but it’s being realistic with what you can afford to work with.I work on HGV’s here in England & just one socket might cost you £250, say for a hub, so it is a very slow process & it is easy to break them too, as more often than not, bolts/nuts are seized.
Companies seem not to buy many specialist tools & as you say it is expensive, but even normal tools are dear!
Iv’e recently broke a 14mm flare nut spanner…£35….just like that!
As i said buying good tools is the right way to go, but certainly here in England it is cripplingly expensive.Indeed not, it doesn’t need to be Snap-On, but I have lot’s of Mac tools which are equally expensive. I know what you are saying though & if the tool works, then great, but I was just trying to emphasise the problems of good tools for people in this profession.
A lot now are offering a lifetime replacement if you have a receipt so that is good, but it’s that same old scenario…..you need the tools to do the job, but you can’t afford the tools in the first place.