Business View Magazine September 2018

270 271 PREFERRED VENDORS n Century Labs II Corporation www.clc2.com Century Labs of Fort Wayne, Indiana, provides electronic and mechanical equipment calibration and repair services throughout the United States and worldwide. The company has been serving DOD contractors, major aero- space manufacturers, and commercial manufacturing industries since 1992. A short list of equipment we calibrate is torque wrenches, calipers, hipots, meters, clamp meters, temperature meters, power supplies, force, shunts, pressure and vacuum gauges, tempera- ture, humidity, meggers, ground bond testers. View the complete list at www. clc2.com . n International Thermal Research www.itrheat.com SHOWHAULER TRUCKS manufacturers couldn’t keep up with their quality. I know one company, in particular - they actually shut down their entire complex for a week to go through every unit that was sitting on the prop- erty to get quality back to where it needed to be because they had so many complaints about quality.” Luckily for ShowHauler, neither oversupply, or poor quality are current problems for this com- pany committed to excellent workmanship and customer satisfaction. “Right now,” says Troyer, “if you ordered a coach, we would try to get it to you next March. It’s not a bad problem to have, but it’s a double-edged sword. People are willing to wait for custom, but they’re not necessarily will- ing to wait that long. So, we’re trying to increase production and get more out the door.We go as fast as we can. Our quality, our fit and finish, and the way we stand behind our coaches - that is our mainstay.” workers from one another, and work- ers can afford to move on to better paying jobs, almost at will. “At the north end of town, another RV com- pany was paying $40 dollars an hour, last year. This year, they’re paying $50 an hour,” he points out. Meanwhile, some RV companies have suffered shutdowns or layoffs, recently, due, in some cases, to sup- ply shortages, and in some cases to too much inventory and too little demand. “The depot yards were full and the manufacturers’ yards were full,” says Troyer. “So, as a dealer got stock, they already had stock, and there was a buildup of product out there. It started to slow down the or- ders coming in. Also, a lot of the big