Wednesday, March 28, 2012

D.W. Congratulates All the Women in the Driver’s Seat

There’s still an underlying sense that trucking is a man’s job. But as can be seen on any given day upon our nation’s interstates, that is becoming less and less the case. At this year’s annual Mid-America Trucking Show on March 24th in Louisville, KY, the Women in Trucking Association (WTA) plans on celebrating this fact. For the third year in a row, the WTA will honor the women that drive America’s rigs and trucks in its “Salute to the Women behind the Wheel” ceremony.

Last year’s “Salute” brought 204 female rig drivers together to hear National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman praise the skill, safety record, and tireless stamina of women truckers. In fact, Ms. Hersman made the journey to Louisville from her office in Washington, D.C. by being driven by five different women truckers. It seems to have made quite an impression on her. In her speech at last year’s show, Ms. Hersman stated, “I gained a lot more respect for these professional drivers behind the wheel and I want them to know that I will keep an eye out for them whenever I’m on the interstate.”

This year’s festival, sponsored by such household names as Walmart, Freightliner, and Frito-Lay, is expected to attract more of an audience than ever before. At last year’s festival, two women truckers, Heather Hogeland and Alice Adams, were recognized for having done over 4 million miles of safe driving each. That’s an incredible statistic by anyone’s gold standard. Here’s believing, and knowing, that there are many more truckers out there just like Heather and Alice. We hope they claim all the recognition they deserve.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

We Are Adding New Flatbeds to Our Fleet


As trucking companies continue their long ascent out of recession territory, the flatbed industry comes trundling after. Overall flatbed sales have jumped across the States for new and used flatbeds. Wabash National Corporation alone reported that 2011 saw for it a 91% increase in overall flatbed sales from the days of 2009, when the economic situation was looking especially grim. With the versatility of the platform (the fact is that you can put a flatbed towards pretty much a million and one uses), and with the American trucking and flatbed industry remaining one of the most robust and qualitatively competitive in the world, it comes  as little or no surprise to us that sales are on the up and up.

 As for D.W. Lift Sales, we continue to invest for the long-haul in the flatbed industry. So far we’ve purchased 49 1999 – 2002 model Wabashes from a prominent leasing company (all of them featuring flatbed dimensions of 36’6” x 102”), in addition to Great Dane and Fontaine models as well. The prices we carry them at are a trucker’s dream, ranging anywhere from $5500 - $8500. And just as our prices are convenient, so are the locations we sell at: we’re selling these newly-purchased flatbeds all over the United States. Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Montana, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Wyoming, California, Michigan, Maine, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Illinois, and Maryland all carry our product. 

In the next couple years we expect to bring the number of new purchases from this leasing company up to something along the lines of 250 flatbeds.