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From: Lance (Auto Care Forum and News)
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1
Date: 13 Jan 2004
Time: 00:52:01
Diesel Hybrids, EPA, Southeast Distribution Hubs, Outsourcing, Brains and Driving with Mobile Electronics. You should drive your car a lot and make sure it is very clean. Here is why: http://just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=43212&dm=yes . Stimuli for your brain? Take that for a drive. By doing this you will be able to think better. But before you go on that long drive to think, why not start with a detail? http://www.DetailGuys.com ---------------------- Truck engine compliance means better oils in engines to handle the heat associated with more efficient engines. EPA Compliance needs increased oil and lubricants for performance to meet emissions standards: http://www.ttnews.com/members/topNews/0011020.html . This is good news for those who are in the Mobile Oil Change Business, http://www.OilChangeGuys.com . ---------------------- It looks as if things in the trucking business are shaping up and Georgia is no lightweight in the trucking Industry either. We are happy to say the South East maybe one of the first areas of transportation recovery. This is good news for The Truck Wash Guys; http://www.TruckWashGuys.com . Look at the Hub distribution cities in the South East. Savannah, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Atlanta. We are seeing trucking expanding as the economy gets better and many companies hiring new drivers and buying more trucks. Some say this is due in part to the up-tick but also due to the new trucking rules for hours. http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2004/01/12/daily3.html?f=et68 and http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2004/01/12/daily4.html?f=et50 . This means that truck drivers will not have time to wait in long lines at truck washes and they will need to be washed during times at terminals. We reported earlier that Swift bought more Volvo Trucks, Schneider is hiring and Wal-Mart Dist. Is adding 240 units and drivers. New ways to tract these trucks using software to discussed today in Birmingham, AL Business Journal; http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2004/01/05/daily39.html?f=et53 and trucking companies will need to find ways to be more efficient as they tranverse the country using the latest and greatest technologies: Traffic on XM radio? http://www.ttnews.com/members/topNews/0011011.html#story1 . It’s all good except for our polluting competitors in the GA area. This is an interesting article and ought to cause some of our competition to go out of business in Macon, GA due to their inability to comply with Storm Water Rules. We can comply, but they cannot, City of Macon will now be forced to get with the program and enforce these issues: EPD chides Macon on storm water runoff article in the Macon Telegraph in GA. State regulators say the city of Macon is not enforcing storm water regulations as required by law. I can tell you first hand that there are several hand wash converted gas stations down town polluting up a storm and that water does go into the storm drains reserved for fresh rain water: http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/7688528.htm We have previously met with the GA DEP personally and the EPA and discussed these issues with them. Looks like 3 years later things may get going, the Deep South is slow to get going, but once they do, they certainly do. GA has quite a few guys polluting out there, here are some examples: http://www.carwashguys.com/competition36.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/competition30.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/competition61.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/competition35.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/competition37.shtml and http://www.carwashguys.com/competition38.shtml ------------------------------------ Mobile Electronics Installations Certifications Starting: http://www.ridgwayrecord.com/articles/2004/01/12/news/news01.txt . The WashGuys had thought of this additional venue for a our franchisees last year for the Detail Guys Brand as a new franchisee from OH had bought a Detail Guys Business and was a former owner of an Auto Electronics Retailer and Installer. The big catch was the training. So at the time we did not dive into what we did not know, although we do realize that there is definitely a big market for this especially in the SUV yuppie crowd and the 18-30 car club crowds. --------------------- Some Economists support offshore outsourcing; The from Fierce Wireless Online: “Economists, for the most part, are supporting the position of high-tech CEOs Carly Fiorina (Hewlett-Packard) and Craig Barrett (Intel) who say the days of wine and roses for highly-skilled, well-paid, white-collar IT workers in the U.S. are over. Fiorina and Barrett told an audience in Washington, D.C., last week that sending jobs overseas to India and China is necessary because of dwindling skills in the U.S. market. The CEOs suggested that instead of erecting protectionist barriers against offshore outsourcing, the U.S. needs to become more competitive by improving education, increasing research and development, and investing in broadband communications networks. Economists are inclined to agree, pointing out that this shift of high-tech jobs to other markets is similar to what happened in older U.S. industries such as agriculture, apparel, steel, and textiles. Workers in Silicon Valley (where the unemployment rate remains 7.2 percent) aren't buying the diminishing skills argument, saying instead that this trend is all about the bottom line. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/09/MNG6C46T0M1.DTL&type=tech . This is an extremely touchy issue and just how bad was it in 2002? http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2004/01/12/daily3.html?f=et85 . And really are our kids interested in the fastest growing industries and best outlook for jobs trend? http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2004/01/12/daily5.html?f=et83 apparently not. Where does this leave us in this country. IT jobs China is after, tech and research jobs wanted by India. All we will have left is the making weapons industry to defend our selves and even that is slowly being bought from over seas. We need to pay more attention. ------------------------ Diesel Hybrids; http://www.ttnews.com/members/topNews/0011011.html#story4 . We can definitely wash those. We have discussed the Army’s Smart Trucks often on this board. http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/0000005e.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg0703/0000005c.htm and http://www.parthe.net/_cwg1003/00000020.htm ------------------------ Any comments email me at; Lance@carwashguys.com
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