PAINFUL - 01/24/06 - The Detroit News: "DEARBORN -- Ford Motor Co. is staking its future on the success
of a gut-wrenching restructuring of its North American operations that
will dramatically downsize the No. 2 U.S. automaker."
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Car delivery firm seeks Chapter 11 - 01/26/06 - The Detroit News
Car delivery firm seeks Chapter 11 - 01/26/06 - The Detroit News: "Wayne-based Performance Transportation Services Inc., which hauls new
cars and trucks to dealerships around the country, filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection Wednesday, citing lower vehicle output at Detroit
automakers, increased diesel fuel prices and escalating labor costs."
cars and trucks to dealerships around the country, filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection Wednesday, citing lower vehicle output at Detroit
automakers, increased diesel fuel prices and escalating labor costs."
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Think Do Think
My buddy has a name for this kind of thing: "Think. Do. Think."
He says, "First you think about doing something. Then you do it. Then you think: "I shouldn't have done that."
The following is from Glenview Announcements and Pioneer Press Online:
Downed power lines spark fires, snarl downtown traffic
After loading Saturn vehicles into an auto transport truck last Thursday evening at Saturn of Glenview, 630 Waukegan Road, the truck's driver couldn't get the vehicle's hydraulic roof to lower properly. He decided to head north on Waukegan Road anyway.
That turned out to be a bad idea, Acting Fire Chief Wayne Globerger said Tuesday.
The auto hauler's raised roof snagged on power lines that crossed Waukegan Road near Harmony Lane, bringing down a street light and snapping two utility poles about 6:20 p.m. The poles' live wires were pulled onto the road, the hauler itself and a passing Mustang. Trees and brush east of the road burst into flames.
The driver of the Mustang exited that car, but the truck driver waited for fire crews to tell him how to exit his cab safely, Globerger said. He was out of the vehicle within 20 minutes, Globerger said.
A section of Waukegan Road was closed off and traffic diverted until ComEd crews could shut off power and make repairs.
While power was restored to about 2,000 area residents within an hour, the street wasn't reopened to traffic until 6:30 Friday morning, police said.
The driver, Emitt Evans of Clarksville, Tenn., was ticketed for operating a vehicle over height limits, Glenview police said.
A court hearing is scheduled Jan. 31.
(Sorry, Emitt, but this is newsworthy. Plus it's funny when it isn't me messing up.)
He says, "First you think about doing something. Then you do it. Then you think: "I shouldn't have done that."
The following is from Glenview Announcements and Pioneer Press Online:
Downed power lines spark fires, snarl downtown traffic
After loading Saturn vehicles into an auto transport truck last Thursday evening at Saturn of Glenview, 630 Waukegan Road, the truck's driver couldn't get the vehicle's hydraulic roof to lower properly. He decided to head north on Waukegan Road anyway.
That turned out to be a bad idea, Acting Fire Chief Wayne Globerger said Tuesday.
The auto hauler's raised roof snagged on power lines that crossed Waukegan Road near Harmony Lane, bringing down a street light and snapping two utility poles about 6:20 p.m. The poles' live wires were pulled onto the road, the hauler itself and a passing Mustang. Trees and brush east of the road burst into flames.
The driver of the Mustang exited that car, but the truck driver waited for fire crews to tell him how to exit his cab safely, Globerger said. He was out of the vehicle within 20 minutes, Globerger said.
A section of Waukegan Road was closed off and traffic diverted until ComEd crews could shut off power and make repairs.
While power was restored to about 2,000 area residents within an hour, the street wasn't reopened to traffic until 6:30 Friday morning, police said.
The driver, Emitt Evans of Clarksville, Tenn., was ticketed for operating a vehicle over height limits, Glenview police said.
A court hearing is scheduled Jan. 31.
(Sorry, Emitt, but this is newsworthy. Plus it's funny when it isn't me messing up.)
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Wheel Straps for GM Cars? The landscape of change in US macroeconomy.
Excerpt from an email I received today:
"GM is building new convertibles with no frame holes for chain. Based on conversations he is convinced that GM will go 100 percent tie downs in the next 3-5 years."
Tie down chains for auto transport trailers seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird. Then again, they might reappear, like the ivory-billed woodpecker down in Arkansas.
Screw actuator trailers, the movement toward wheel strap tie-downs instead of cluster chains in the auto transport industry, auto transport companies leasing on drivers as owner-operators-- there is quite a bit of structural change going on in the car industry.
If you look at the auto transport industry against the backdrop of all the structural, macro-economic change, it gets dizzying just trying to keep up with it all: rising US budget deficits, rising interest rates, regional housing economy bubbles, nascent inflationary trends, and stubborn trade deficits as Americans buy more and more foreign-made products.
A lot of the dynamic is counter-intuitive: corporations are off-shoring and down-sizing in growing numbers. The job-loss recovery talked about in the (insanely liberal media) is a reflection of structural change, not cyclical change.
Toyota is poised to pass GM as the largest automaker in the world.
A lot of these jobs aren't coming back. Period.
On the other hand, companies like Toyota and Subaru and Honda are expanding their capital investments in the US, optimizing their supply chain and distribution web logistics by having cars manufactured here. Some jobs are being created.
We're going to experience an acceleration of the rate of change as the economic system responds to the stimulus that the developments in information technology have created: ever more liquid pools of capital and labor that can be harnessed in a productive manner.
Pessimists have viewed this as "Labor in separate nations being forced to compete in a race for the bottom." We've seen some of this, as the toy industry moved from the US, to Mexico, and ultimately to China. Same thing for the textile industry.
On the other hand, what doesn't get noticed is the amount of revenue brought home to the US by consultants as a result of global trade.
It probably doesn't comfort the GM worker's wife to know that consultants who used to make 200,000 a year are now making 500,000 as a result of these structural changes in the economy. However, this money will keep circulating in the economy in various ways. The consultant might hire her husband's new landscaping company. The formerly out-of-work auto worker will buy trailers and equipment for his business start-up.
One thing is for sure: this kind of change is fertile ground for even more change. It seeds the ground for further changes, some of them good, and some of them not-so-good. Call it the landscape of future change.
Then there's all the cyclical change: interest rates, fuel prices, consumer confidence and new-car sales. These are the "trees" close to us that sometimes obscure our view of the forest-- or still further, the landscape of future change.
Not to worry, though. Americans have always been innovators. That's one thing that never changes.
"GM is building new convertibles with no frame holes for chain. Based on conversations he is convinced that GM will go 100 percent tie downs in the next 3-5 years."
Tie down chains for auto transport trailers seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird. Then again, they might reappear, like the ivory-billed woodpecker down in Arkansas.
Screw actuator trailers, the movement toward wheel strap tie-downs instead of cluster chains in the auto transport industry, auto transport companies leasing on drivers as owner-operators-- there is quite a bit of structural change going on in the car industry.
If you look at the auto transport industry against the backdrop of all the structural, macro-economic change, it gets dizzying just trying to keep up with it all: rising US budget deficits, rising interest rates, regional housing economy bubbles, nascent inflationary trends, and stubborn trade deficits as Americans buy more and more foreign-made products.
A lot of the dynamic is counter-intuitive: corporations are off-shoring and down-sizing in growing numbers. The job-loss recovery talked about in the (insanely liberal media) is a reflection of structural change, not cyclical change.
Toyota is poised to pass GM as the largest automaker in the world.
A lot of these jobs aren't coming back. Period.
On the other hand, companies like Toyota and Subaru and Honda are expanding their capital investments in the US, optimizing their supply chain and distribution web logistics by having cars manufactured here. Some jobs are being created.
We're going to experience an acceleration of the rate of change as the economic system responds to the stimulus that the developments in information technology have created: ever more liquid pools of capital and labor that can be harnessed in a productive manner.
Pessimists have viewed this as "Labor in separate nations being forced to compete in a race for the bottom." We've seen some of this, as the toy industry moved from the US, to Mexico, and ultimately to China. Same thing for the textile industry.
On the other hand, what doesn't get noticed is the amount of revenue brought home to the US by consultants as a result of global trade.
It probably doesn't comfort the GM worker's wife to know that consultants who used to make 200,000 a year are now making 500,000 as a result of these structural changes in the economy. However, this money will keep circulating in the economy in various ways. The consultant might hire her husband's new landscaping company. The formerly out-of-work auto worker will buy trailers and equipment for his business start-up.
One thing is for sure: this kind of change is fertile ground for even more change. It seeds the ground for further changes, some of them good, and some of them not-so-good. Call it the landscape of future change.
Then there's all the cyclical change: interest rates, fuel prices, consumer confidence and new-car sales. These are the "trees" close to us that sometimes obscure our view of the forest-- or still further, the landscape of future change.
Not to worry, though. Americans have always been innovators. That's one thing that never changes.
Monday, December 12, 2005
TheBostonChannel.com - News Archive - Truck Carrying SUV Gets Caught On Bridge
TheBostonChannel.com - News Archive - Truck Carrying SUV Gets Caught On Bridge
Skidpin just emailed me this... THIS IS TOTALLY why I don't miss living on the east coast!
Skidpin just emailed me this... THIS IS TOTALLY why I don't miss living on the east coast!
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Rush Truck Center of Nashville - Inventory
Rush Truck Center of Nashville - Inventory: "2004 Peterbilt 387 Caterpillar C15 435 70' Raised Roof FRO16210B Call!
U90145 2004 Peterbilt 387 Caterpillar C15 435 70' Raised Roof FRO16210B Call!
U1285 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 63' Raised Roof FRO16210C Call!
U1279 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 63' Raised Roof FRO16210C Call!
U90177 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C-15 475 63' Unibilt sta 18 Speed Call!
U90176 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C-15 475 63' Raised Roof 18 Speed $89,000
U90170 2004 Kenworth T600 Caterpillar C15 475 86' Studio RTLO18913A Call!
U90178 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 63' Raised Roof RTLO18918B Call!
U90161 2003 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 70' Raised Roof RTO16910C-AS2 Call!
U71992 2003 Peterbilt 379EXHD Cummins ISX 475 63' Raised Roof FRO18210C Call!
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U90196 2003 Peterbilt 378 Caterpillar C15 435 Non FRO16210C Call!
U90127 2002 Peterbilt 378 Caterpillar C15 435 Non FRO16210C $54,500
U90154 2002 Peterbilt 378 Caterpillar C15 435 Non FRO16210C $54,500
U90183 2002 Peterbilt 387 Caterpillar C15 435 70' Premium FRO16210B Call!
U150079 2002 Kenworth W900L Caterpillar C15 475 72'AERODYNE/AER FRO16210C Call!
U90185"
U90145 2004 Peterbilt 387 Caterpillar C15 435 70' Raised Roof FRO16210B Call!
U1285 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 63' Raised Roof FRO16210C Call!
U1279 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 63' Raised Roof FRO16210C Call!
U90177 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C-15 475 63' Unibilt sta 18 Speed Call!
U90176 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C-15 475 63' Raised Roof 18 Speed $89,000
U90170 2004 Kenworth T600 Caterpillar C15 475 86' Studio RTLO18913A Call!
U90178 2004 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 63' Raised Roof RTLO18918B Call!
U90161 2003 Peterbilt 379EXHD Caterpillar C15 475 70' Raised Roof RTO16910C-AS2 Call!
U71992 2003 Peterbilt 379EXHD Cummins ISX 475 63' Raised Roof FRO18210C Call!
U72020 2003 Peterbilt 379EXHD Cummins ISX 475 63' Raised Roof FRO18210C Call!
U90196 2003 Peterbilt 378 Caterpillar C15 435 Non FRO16210C Call!
U90127 2002 Peterbilt 378 Caterpillar C15 435 Non FRO16210C $54,500
U90154 2002 Peterbilt 378 Caterpillar C15 435 Non FRO16210C $54,500
U90183 2002 Peterbilt 387 Caterpillar C15 435 70' Premium FRO16210B Call!
U150079 2002 Kenworth W900L Caterpillar C15 475 72'AERODYNE/AER FRO16210C Call!
U90185"
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Heavy Equipment, Trucks and Trailers from My Little Salesman Catalogs
Heavy Equipment, Trucks and Trailers from My Little Salesman Catalogs: "
New and Used Auto Carriers, New Peterbilt Cottrell Auto Carriers Now Available,..."
New and Used Auto Carriers, New Peterbilt Cottrell Auto Carriers Now Available,..."
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Toyota poised to beat GM in 2006 - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com _
Toyota poised to beat GM in 2006 - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com _: "Posted Nov 23, 2005, 1:00 PM ET by Erin Mays
Related entries: Car Buying, Trends"
Related entries: Car Buying, Trends"
Monday, November 21, 2005
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