Well it looks like I am going to be wandering the country again, I just found out that there will be no runs for us the next two weeks. Apparently they are going to idle the plant for the first two weeks of March. Despite the great reviews it appears that the Traverse is just not selling well enough to keep the plant running at a constant pace. When I was there Tuesday for my delivery, I could see that they were running the plant a lot leaner than they used to. There weren't nearly as many parts as they were keeping on hand prior to the December shut down. If I had to guess, they had maybe two to three truck loads of engines on hand, when they used to keep five to six. Now this is something they should have been doing all along, especially with us bringing in a delivery every two hours. That would have saved them a ton of inventory costs last year.
Now next week I might actually be able to stay in the area, we have a new account with a beer company that recently started up. The disadvantage is that these aren't regular runs, and they aren't that long a run either, from what I have heard. The major advantage is that it is still freight moving, and you get paid to do that. You will know more when I do.
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