arkjarhead
Veteran Expediter
There is a guy here in town that is an expediter of sorts I guess you could say. He has an old Toyota u-haul type truck with the 14 foot box on it. He is out of Monticello, AR. He has a deal with the saw mills and paper mills all around what people like to call the Arklamiss. Which is AR, LA, and MS. Plus he has some customers in east Texas and Oklahoma. Basiclly when they need a repair part they call the supplier and he runs and goes and gets it. Sometimes he is just picking up a bearing or some kind of part for one plant, and other times he may pick up at 2 or 3 suppliers close to one another and deliver at 1,2, or 3 plants. He says he stays very busy. He just told me he learned the hard way when he started about 8 years ago to have you some money saved up for the Christmas shut down and you will be steadily busy all the other times because stuff is constantly breaking and they keep nothing on hand.
He said surprisingly enough he stays busy in the winter. I guess because the temps down here go up and down so much it makes stuff outside brittle and it breaks down? He says he doesn't care why it goes down as long as they call him when it does.
He said surprisingly enough he stays busy in the winter. I guess because the temps down here go up and down so much it makes stuff outside brittle and it breaks down? He says he doesn't care why it goes down as long as they call him when it does.
