Out on the droves and the open Fen roads around March, the phone is not always going to help you. Signal comes and goes, a map pin can land a field away from where you are actually standing, and a road with no houses on it often has no name that anything will recognise. So it is worth treating the call itself as part of the problem rather than as the solution to it.
If you have any signal at all, spend the first part of it on location rather than conversation. Direction of travel, the last village or turning you went past, roughly how far along you think you are, and anything you can actually see, whether that is a bridge, a farm gate, a drain or a junction sign. Then the make, colour and registration. If the call drops after that we still have enough to find you. On the A141 or the A142 the road name does most of the work, but out on the smaller roads towards Wimblington it is your description that gets a van to the right place. It is also worth saying if the battery is low, because that decides whether we ring on approach or simply keep coming.
The other three tyres get a look while we are with the car, and it is not a sales exercise. The job itself is the same either way: we come to you in March, take the wheel off, work out whether the flat is a repairable puncture or a finished tyre, and deal with it there. Pressures set before we leave Estover, and the same on the B1099. A Station Road driveway is our workshop, and so is a Wimblington Road kerb.
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The roads around March are flat, open and largely featureless, which is a hard combination when you have to describe where you are standing. The A141 and A142 are straightforward enough, but the droves and the smaller roads out towards Wimblington give a phone very little to work with. Spend the first part of the call on the location rather than on the tyre. Everything about the tyre can be sorted out once the van is beside you.
The call dropped twice, and she had already given the direction, the last turning and a description of a bridge she could see from the car. That was enough. The van pulled in alongside without either of us needing to speak again.
The location the phone offered put the car several hundred yards away across open ground. The driver's own description of where he had stopped turned out to be far more accurate than the technology was.
In the town, with a road name, a house number and a streetlight over it. Most of the March jobs we do look like this one and take no working out at all.
Where you are. Direction of travel, the last place you passed, and anything you can see from the car. Then the registration. If the call drops after that, we can still find you and get on with it.
Usually helpful and occasionally misleading, particularly out on the droves where it can put you in the middle of a field. Send it if you can, but describe the spot as well rather than relying on it alone.
Say so at the start of the call. We pin the location down straight away and agree that we simply arrive rather than ringing on approach, so a dead phone does not leave you wondering whether anybody is coming.
Then move only as far as it takes to get a signal, at walking pace, and stop again. That is one of the very few reasons worth driving on a flat, and it is a short distance rather than a journey.
Yes, across March and out towards Chatteris, Wisbech and the surrounding Fenland, at any hour. Being on an open road a long way from a garage is precisely the situation a mobile fitter exists for.
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