What I don't get and maybe you guys can answer this question for me, but they have that little Yellow International, a couple maybe not brand new, but not the oldest either Mack Pinnacle trucks and an older FL-70 box truck (The freight-liner FL series was the predecessor to the M2)
What I don't get is, those tractors are what $40,000-$70,000 each brand new? That box truck in 2002 was what $40,000?
Why is perfectly good equipment sitting there rotting away? I mean the company paid good money for all that stuff, why aren't they using it? Further more how come nobody's saying "Gee you know that box truck cost us good money back in the day we should probably get it fixed up and back on the road and it can make us money."
I mean I understand stuff outlives it's economic lifespan and all, but I mean nobody upstairs is going "Gee unit 25962 is just wasting away. We only paid $50,000 for it 7 years ago and now it's sitting in a lot somewhere." I mean if that was my trucking company I wouldn't run like that. At least I would try not to.
If equipment was faulty or we had no use for it I would sell it off or scrap it or do what ever needed to be done, but to just let late model equipment just sit and deteriorate like that I don't know the whole seen is very strange.
You know if it was my company I would be like whooha, that's $40,000 sitting right there if it doesn't do us any good anymore lets fix it up best we can and sell it off, but to just let the stuff sit there I don't know and further more isn't someone going Hey remember that box truck we had back at the old terminal? What happened to it, you know we could use it for some of our tighter deliveries or to run auxiliary overflow or to lessen the load on other stuff or to go in tight spots down town or something like that.