A few months ago, The Answer Men (Jim and Robert Counts) wrote an article asking the question: “Do We Need Another Interchange?” Please go read their article (http://www.rpowersource.com/The%20Answer%20Man.html) if you missed it because it clearly spells out many of the reasons that another interchange would be a very bad idea for our industry. Jim
Charles Tandy of Radio Shack fame once said, “Your most likely customer is the customer who just bought something from you.” With that in mind, I held weekend events twice a year where customers could come in and retrieve their own auto parts. Twenty dollars would provide my customer with all he could carry. Some
In 1993, a good friend of mine and fellow auto salvage business owner DL Fitz opened a new location about 60 miles south of his family’s existing locations, near Tacoma, WA. Traffic in the Tacoma area made delivering parts on time very difficult. In response, a new facility at Graham was added to speed deliveries.