Well for my 200th post i thought i would update everyone where i am @ i have learned way to many lessons since hurricane sandy took away everything from me.
For starters as a full time tax paying completely legit and insured scrapper having such an interruption to the services i can provide my customers as well as an interruption to my customers as well was devastating. Over half my route decided not to rebuild and the other half got extra busy. i lost most of my trucks all of my tools and had to rebuild the business piece by piece. Amazingly after buying trucks i cut out alot of fat and extra equipment on the trucks.
Cashing everything in before the price drops was crucial as i could have lost most of my equity but went seamlessly.
i lost my dually 2 rams and the f150 i only replaced it with 1 ram 2500 but more trailers. i got my costs Way down insurance is halfed payroll is a third of what it was and my customer base was replenished with a lot of hard work. i have to thank this site
1 without missing a beat i got new business cards shirts flyers and truck decals.
the hardest part was negotiating with the bank for my truck loans and dealing with insurance. it was very hard getting an adjuster to value the trucks losses accurately. with a liftgate and gps and tool losses
it was hard getting a computer system set up to track inventory.
lastly it was hard overcoming personal loss when you wanted to quit most for that i say thank you to my fellow scrappers
and look forward to posting more and sharing any value i can provide even if i am just a full time scrapper
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