Guest guest Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Quite an honorable plan Conley. You would save a lot of services a lot of trouble and money but have you thought about what kind of time, trouble, and gas expenses you will incur? We get a lot of boards left in the DFW area and it would be a beneficial service to us. I would be afraid that you would quickly realize it's costing you too much. Maybe you should charge enough to make a little bit of profit. Many services may gladly contract with you - You save them $ not losing old boards, they buy fewer new boards, and you can justify doing this. Good luck, Don, Tyler >>> cxh@... 11/23/05 8:17 AM >>> As a student doing hospital clinical rotations, I always looked at the stack of boards outside the E.R., & took with me those I could return on the way to class, an hour's travel away; or to my next rotation; or to a classmate to return to his service, etc. Travel a few miles off track was OK. Occasionally I was able to retrieve a local-area board from a distant clinical rotation site. I've thought about a volunteer personal effort to return backboards to distant services; I'd appreciate the group's responses & reactions. 1. Boards would have to be cleaned, which I'd be glad to do. 2. My availability might limit the volume which could be handled. 3. Probably some form of wrapper would be needed, for shipper confidence & to contain straps. 4. I assume UPS-type shipping, which I haven't looked into yet. My thought was to contact services in advance, to secure their agreement to pay shipping charges, so that the package service would accept shipment. 5. If this idea is workable, my plan would be to pick up boards, clean & package them, and deliver to UPS/FedEx, etc. (I'm in Ft. Worth.) Conley Harmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Quite an honorable plan Conley. You would save a lot of services a lot of trouble and money but have you thought about what kind of time, trouble, and gas expenses you will incur? We get a lot of boards left in the DFW area and it would be a beneficial service to us. I would be afraid that you would quickly realize it's costing you too much. Maybe you should charge enough to make a little bit of profit. Many services may gladly contract with you - You save them $ not losing old boards, they buy fewer new boards, and you can justify doing this. Good luck, Don, Tyler >>> cxh@... 11/23/05 8:17 AM >>> As a student doing hospital clinical rotations, I always looked at the stack of boards outside the E.R., & took with me those I could return on the way to class, an hour's travel away; or to my next rotation; or to a classmate to return to his service, etc. Travel a few miles off track was OK. Occasionally I was able to retrieve a local-area board from a distant clinical rotation site. I've thought about a volunteer personal effort to return backboards to distant services; I'd appreciate the group's responses & reactions. 1. Boards would have to be cleaned, which I'd be glad to do. 2. My availability might limit the volume which could be handled. 3. Probably some form of wrapper would be needed, for shipper confidence & to contain straps. 4. I assume UPS-type shipping, which I haven't looked into yet. My thought was to contact services in advance, to secure their agreement to pay shipping charges, so that the package service would accept shipment. 5. If this idea is workable, my plan would be to pick up boards, clean & package them, and deliver to UPS/FedEx, etc. (I'm in Ft. Worth.) Conley Harmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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