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Brian Robinson -- the mover who stranded a house on Providence Rd. -- is back on the streets
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Robinson blames city officials for the fact that his car was towed, because he says they didn't tell him the meeting was going to take four hours.
Robinson also has issues with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which he says is deliberately trying to hurt him financially by charging him more for the police escorts required to move a house than other movers pay. That's because police captains David Grose and Glenn Avery make Robinson use on-duty officers rather than off-duty ones, which costs $5 more per officer per hour. Avery said Robinson recently refused to pay a $760 bill for two moves in November and December, telling him he'd sent the bill to his attorney instead.
"That's going to cost them," swears Robinson. "They're making me use on-duty officers simply because Grose and Avery both don't like me because I don't take no shit and I call them on the phone and I tell them what I feel. I don't care if they're a cop. You know how unbusiness-like police officers are because they are all so stupid. I think you have to have, I'm serious, a lower IQ to be a police officer. If it is over a certain amount, they won't let you be a police officer. That's the problem."
Captain Avery says Robinson is the only house mover charged for on-duty officers because of his past scheduling problems and lack of interest in paying bills he owes the department. Avery said Robinson has scheduled a move and then stood up officers on at least three occasions. Avery says the department needs at least two days notice to schedule off-duty officers for a house move, but for those two moves, Robinson called late in the day on the day he planned to move a house and asked for an escort. The only way the Police Department could provide an escort at the last minute was to use on-duty officers, which costs more, Avery said. Avery said Robinson verbally agreed to use the on-duty officers at the higher price for the two moves, then refused to pay the bill.
"We're willing to work with him and treat him very fairly and we think we have," said Avery. "All we ask is that he meet the criteria everyone else does."
Robinson doesn't just have issues with government bodies, but with some of his customers as well. He's currently threatening a lawsuit against Shawn Santee, who hired Robinson's company to move a house from one site in a development to another. Santee said he began to suspect something was wrong when he repeatedly requested that Robinson produce a mover's license, and Robinson didn't.
Santee said Robinson did thousands of dollars worth of damage to his home, including a hole he made in the side of the house when he damaged two bedroom walls by breaking wall studs with a backhoe. Robinson also damaged windows, gutters and water and sewer infrastructure in the development and held up its completion, Santee said.
So why is Robinson suing Santee? Because Santee fired Robinson after he learned of Robinson's ongoing struggles on Providence Road and discovered the damage to his house. Robinson claims he was not allowed to complete the job according to the contract he signed with Santee.
The irony of the situation is that when Robinson signed the contract to move Santee's home in March, neither Robinson nor his partner had valid movers' licenses in the state of North Carolina, and couldn't have legally moved Santee's house, according to NCDOT documents.
"It seems obvious that the NCDOT is not keeping a close enough watch on what's going on or what this guy is doing out there," said Santee. *
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