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From: Lance (Things Which Effect US All. What's Good For Wash Guys is Good For America)
Remote Name: 66.82.52.46
Date: 30 Apr 2004
Time: 03:18:58
You wish all cars were this easy to wash? And I can tell you that the International Car Wash Association is really putting on the PR Juice this time around. Here is an interesting one about the easiest car to wash, gimme more of those. High profits. A Clean Finish - Chrysler 300M Named ' Most Washable Car ' of Source: PR Newswire (press release) - Car Wash Operators Like Its Aerodynamic Design, Secure Moldings and Easy-to-Clean http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-26-2004/0002159937&EDATE=> and of course this article also. Go to a Car Wash to save the environment? Yah right? Why not call the wash to you? Car Wash tips awash in irony; Source: Gladstone Sun News - Gladstone, MO, The best way to minimize the effect washing the car has on the environment is to use a commercial car wash. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1452&dept_id=155079&newsid=11395545&PAG=461&rfi=9 . Looks like we may get hit with another round of cost cutting from Trucking companies washing their trucks. In CA truckers protest fuel prices; Source: San Jose Business Journal - San Jose, CA, Protests Friday as owner-operators amplify their objections to high prices for diesel fuel in California, according to the California Trucking Association. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/04/26/daily27.html?jst=b_ln_hl and this comes in after this article appeared; California diesel Prices Skyrocketed, source: Yahoo News (press release) - As oil companies report record profits, trucking companies forced to buy California fuel are parked and rumblings from San Diego to Oakland of a truck strike http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040427/sftu140_1.html . We see trucking is good as products from overseas are still needing shipping even if we are shipping jobs the other way. And it appears that they are looking at ways of increasing traffic flows in the South and other parts with an idea which seems to be taking off, while some in the trucking business and distribution business are somewhat skeptical. This article; “Throwing yet another acronym into the mix, those lanes are called TOT, or truck-only toll, lanes. They're individual toll lanes that only truckers are allowed to use. The truck-lane idea has not caught on as quickly across the country as the HOT lane idea has, but there are plans for the truck lanes in Virginia, Texas and California, he said. United Parcel Service Inc. spokesman Norman Black agreed, saying the company also wanted to make sure that any truck-only lanes are additions to the existing highway lanes, as opposed to lanes that are currently free and are then converted into toll lanes. Now that the General Assembly has passed legislation allowing high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes in Georgia, the state isn't wasting any time. Not only is the State Road and Toll way Authority planning a study of potential spots for HOT lanes, which allow individual drivers to escape congestion by paying tolls to use high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes, but it's also considering a similar idea that would specifically cater to trucks.” -------- So it appears that trucking is taking some big hits lately. All in all though we shall see if Saudi Arabia releases the oil which will help gasoline and diesel prices before the election or not, if they do not do it soon it will be too late. Between fuel and water shortages our business model at the wash guys is swinging from one end to the other. This just in from FL: “Florida Water situation already started: CITY asks residents to limit water use. Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona, FL; PALM COAST -- An extended period with little rain and increased demand for irrigation has led city officials to ask citizens to curtail water usage. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Neighbors/NewsTribune/03FlaglerNT04042404.htm “ Desalination is starting to look very good these days as thirsty states are hurting for water. http://www.spacedaily.com/upi/20040423-13281900.html Florida being one of them on the list as well as out on the other coast out in CA, AZ, NV and the MidWest and even ID. MT, UT, CO, WY, NE, KS, SD, ND, etc. One Non-Profit groups is going to sing away the water shortage blues and really that is a good idea, fresh water supplies are a world wide problem you see: Check out A Single Drop; http://www.ASingleDrop.org . And in FL they seem to be fighting over transportation issues too. Jeb Bush has been looking at the budgets and decided that high speed rail is not in the cards right now, maybe later. So Billionaire Branson, says, hey let me fund it, we can do this. Yes, probably they can. And we all know. Anything government can’t do we can do better: Virgin steps aboard private team to run bullet train. Source: Miami Herald (subscription) - Miami, FL. Orlando and eventually Miami. Virgin would fill a critical hole in Florida's private train team. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8511622.htm . Any comments or questions, you just let me know. Lance@carwashguys.com
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