Preparing for 2013

Weathering The Storm As A Truck driver, Tower, or Cottrell Owner

Many of the articles that get posted in this blog and others come from news sources all across the country. I pull articles from regional magazines, newspapers, blog feeds, etc.. I saw an article recently that featured a trucking business about 5 miles from our office here in Portsmouth.

The trucking business is Frank's truck stop up the street. This is a popular stop that has been around for over 70 years. Generations of truckers have come through this stop in and out of the port of Virginia. Many of the truckers, Cottrell owners, towers, and other transportation professionals that visit us, go here.

The article caught my eye, not just because they are local, but because it talks about what this business is going today to prepare for 2013. Post election, there are a lot of questions as to which way the economy is going to go. Is 2013 going to be a turbulent year economically, or are we leaving the worst part of the recession behind?

Why take a chance?

Franks truck stop has a possible solution. That solution is to reserve your cash and prepare for a rainy day. This, obviously, is not what the government or Frank's would like to do but this is what they have to do. Think about it. 

You have had five years of slowing economy activity and political gridlock There is no real plan on the books to solve things. There is no guarantee that gridlock wont be the status quo for the next two years. Having cash on hand may be the only insurance policy that a company has anymore...

 http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/11/12/businesses_stockpiling_cash_amid_cloudy_future.htm

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Finding Nuggets of Good Economic News In Transportation

Sometimes You Have To Search For The Silver Lining In Economic News...But you can find it

Finding good economic news has not alway been the easiest in the last four years. In fact, not just do you have to search for it, but you have to wade through a lot of ‘fluff’ articles about an improving economy that just don’t feel that credible. Don't get me wrong, I want to believe. I want every trucker, car hauler, tower, or Cottrell owner to believe them.

It is just the proof is not always there....

Thus, a story with sound numbers and logics about economic improvement stands out and I think I found one. According to Today’s Trucking, October showed the largest number of truck class 8 truck orders and class 5-7 truck orders since the beginning of the year. So here are the numbers.

• Over 23,000 class 8 trucks sold in October
• Over 18,000 class 5- 7 trucks sold in November

This seems to be a solid provable point. For those trucks a number of economic gears had to go in motion

• Customers had to have credit
• Banks had to loan the money
• A Cottrell transport had to haul the cars to the dealer
• and probably lots more...

Hopefully this is a start of good things to come?

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Of Note in Carhauling and Trucking

Gordon Trucking uses their trucks to advertise missing children. Incredible benefit to the community and to them. A win win all they. Now there is no way to put this on a carhauler trailer but your fleet might have vans, or tractor trailers that can.

http://www.auburn-reporter.com/news/176872891.html#storyComments

 

 

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