FRONT END ALIGNMENT

Yup. I know that feeling. There's an international truck place about an hour away that it never fails... We take a truck there, and without fail it leaves us on the side of the road on its maiden voyage back to the IDOT yard I'm out of ... They have locations in opposite directions another hour from the bad one that we've taken trucks to with better, but still unacceptable results.
There's a state mental health facility about 40 minutes away that sends me lots of work. Their employees/drivers are pure savages.
THAT'S a story for later in itself.
They sometimes take a vehicle to a local shop that's like 5 minutes away which sometimes makes sense as an hour and 1/2 to drive to me and back, plus however long it takes me to do what's needed, for a small quick job//or something that needs a tow, as often the cost of a tow exceeded the cost of the repair.
Often they can limp something those few miles by driving but can't make 32 miles to me without a tow. Towing ain't cheap either.

The supervisor and I both have to initial the bill from any shop or parts invoice for work done in house, , before it is submitted downstate for payment. So I see what they charge for every job they do for us.
The prices they charge, are obscene.

$80 to put a VAT40 on a battery for test.
A simple battery swap is rarely below $300 from this place.

I just got a Ford E350 shuttle bus in my bay that this shop charged the state $12 GRAND (yeah you read that right) to put a jasper engine into. This is a 5.4 Ford. 8 months ago, 7k miles ago.
Missing on 3 cylinders. One was a bad spark plug boot on a coil. The other 2 were weak coils.
So I just put a set of 8 ignition coils on it 2 days ago. You telling me they couldn't have included those in the replacement, without charging more for them? Especially when the engine was out! What a pain to work on the top of an engine in a Ford van chassis.... And I pulled the spark plug out of the first of those cylinders that was showing misfire, and I had to get my 2 foot long 3/8 ratchet on that plug to break it loose... Ridiculous again. I told the boos they should have taken it straight back to the place that did the engine. As it was 8 coils for that engine cost us about $275 plus my time to check it out, pull the doghouse and do the work. I bet this shyster place would have charged us $1200 to $1500 to do the job. That THEY should have done better to begin with.