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“Flying off the shelves” might be a reality in the warehouses of the not-too-distant future.

“I believe that drones have the potential to see significant adoption in warehousing and closed-system material handling (within the walls of a facility) years before we see their use in parcel delivery (for example, Amazon’s Prime Air concept pitched on 60 Minutes),” said Chase Murray, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at Auburn University.

Drones inside a warehouse travel shorter distances, don’t have to deal with weather and won’t trigger safety concerns of the general public, Murray said. The Federal Aviation Administration banned the use of drones for commercial use for now, so Amazon’s drone delivery plans will not occur before 2016, he said. “I don’t think we’ll see a large-scale implementation of delivery by drone before the end of this decade.”

The more precise, and preferred by some, term is unmanned or uninhabited aerial vehicle instead of drone.

Use inside the warehouse will come before deliveries, although some challenges remain. “Although UAVs are fairly adept at picking up items vertically, I’ve yet to see a system that allows an UAV to retrieve an item sideways (from a shelving rack),” so some infrastructure changes will be needed, Murray said.

It might all sound a little George Jetson (to those of us of a certain age who remember The Jetsons television show), but the parts to build robots are readily available, Murray said, and “a growing hobbyist community is creating new platforms that can perform some pretty interesting tasks. We’re seeing organic innovation from the public, not just from research labs. All of this innovation is happening very rapidly. Initially, the ‘cool’ factor captured my attention. I’m fascinated by the idea of small flying robots delivering goods. From an academic point of view, this technology has presented a host of new and interesting challenges”

that must be tackled by cross-disciplinary teams to make the drones efficient and cost effective, Murray said.

That means drones would have to cut material handling times and costs. Costs of the drones themselves are hard to estimate and depend on application but “for indoor material handling, I think the pricing will be similar in scale to AGV (automated guided vehicle systems).”

Murray can envision a combined system, with a UAV piggybacking on top of an AGV, to pick orders.

It won’t work in every instance, because drones have limited payload capacity and endurance.

“For the right application, I do believe that UAVs will revolutionize material handling,” Murray said. “For example, in warehousing, UAVs may enable faster and easier access to goods stored at greater heights,” so warehouses could have smaller footprints and different warehouse layouts.

“Fortunately, the material handling industry has become quite comfortable with robots. AGVs have been in use for quite some time, and UAVs may be perceived as being the 3-dimensional counterpart to AGVs. The third dimension, and the fact that UAVs do not need aisles or roadways, is what will make this revolutionary rather than evolutionary. I think industry is waiting for someone to demonstrate how UAVs can successfully improve operations. Once that happens, I see the demand for UAVs increasing dramatically,” Murray said.

Aside from drones, the next decade will see increased, and possibly complete, automation.

“We’re headed into an era where there is a lot more automation—so in 10 years we may even be completely automated,” said Joe Micek, Vidmar manager of national accounts. “There are a group of fully motorized products that are keeping up with this trend. Motorized parts carousels take advantage of vertical space, capturing what was once wasted space and

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turning it into valuable storage. Because of one-person operation and motorized retrieval, they bring parts to the picker, thereby increasing productivity and improving worker safety. With this comes increased space efficiency; a motorized parts carousel’s small footprint maximizes floor space by fully utilizing vertical space.”

Micek named space utilization and inventory control -knowing where the product is and how to get to it quickly- as inefficiencies in warehouses.

“When you’re not using your warehouse square footage to your advantage it can easily lead to problems. Suddenly you can’t find what you’re looking for, inventory management becomes slow, and you can feel the pinch in your bottom line. Organization is the key to any well-run warehouse, and to be organized you need the power of an efficient storage system on your side. Store the product properly, know where it is, and pick and replenish it quickly,” Micek said. “For instance, two cabinets can store the entire contents of five units of standard shelving. That means you can double your storage capacity and free up space for more productive and profitable uses. What’s more, modular cabinets are designed with the flexibility of building blocks, letting you grow one or more cabinets at a time as your needs expand. You can then change them around into as many configurations as you would like, as often as you need.”

“Warehouses of the future will become more like true distribution centers where supplies that come in, and immediately go out without storage of the products,” said Chris Castaldi, director of business development at W&H Systems.

“With less storage, more cross-docking operations will occur. Cross-docking is a practice in the logistics field of unloading materials from an incoming truck and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars, with little or no storage in between. The reason this is occurring is because more retailers are supporting omni-channel fulfillment operations that include fulfillment at stores instead of fulfillment from a warehouse. Stores will have visibility into inventory levels across all retail outlets and have the ability to fulfill orders in-house or get inventory from other stores to fulfill orders,” Castaldi said.

Here are some cross-docking best practices, according to Castaldi:

• Handle each piece of freight only once. • Make dock layout as compact as possible. • Match staff to shipment volume. • Keep the dock floor clean and organized. • Use materials handling tools to speed movement.

Conveyors will allow cartons to travel directly from the unloading trailer to the loading trailer, eliminating travel time and extra handling.

Inventory management is an easily rectified inefficiency, Castaldi said. Automation helps keep track of where products are and also helps get them where they need to be.

“Most warehouses have issues with items that don’t get sold so they carry a stagnant inventory. These unsold items just continue to take up space in the warehouse, where their value is lost. To rectify this, warehouses need to act more like a distribution center and push these products out to the retail stores. They need to not hold onto the inventory and instead sell it in the stores. Retail stores, on the other hand, need to have areas within the store to handle fulfillment operations. Utilizing systems

such as RFID-tags that identify, diagnose, and prevent out-of-stock conditions, will help to remove uncertainty from in-store inventories and prevent lost sales. Moving inventory out to the storefronts using automation to push products from the warehouse will help rectify the situation. Conveyors, picking systems, sortation units are all material handling automation equipment that can improve throughput and increase efficiencies. Order pickers spend about 60 percent of their time walking product or moving product around. Using conveyors or sortation systems can reduce travel time and improve throughput,” Castaldi said.

There will be two types of warehouses.“The warehouse of the future will come in two classes.

We will continue to see the large centralized warehouse that is common today,” said Greg Henry, senior vice president of operations and software services for DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. “However, these warehouses will carry much larger product sets and may support multiple companies’ products as we continually look to remove cost from the supply chain. They will also continue to adopt technologies that speed the movement of product through the replenishment cycle. Product packaging will continue to evolve to match the capabilities of the automation equipment.”

Even with automation, people will still work in warehouses. “These people will be equipped with GPS sensors, voice

computing and wearable display technologies to optimize their performance,” he said, including voice input smartphones or Google Glasses.

“The second class of warehouse is the small local warehouse that is likely an extension of retail location or display store front,” Henry said, which will reduce delivery times and inventories. Finance costs of inventories are one of the biggest inefficiencies in warehousing, and supply chain visibility and data analysis will minimize it, he said.

“You need data to make correct decisions and not rely on hunches or guesses,” said John Rosenberger, product manager for iWarehouse Gateway for the Raymond Corporation.

More data will be gathered and shared, he said. Software and apps on mobile devices will be priced so more companies can afford them.

But data needs to be analyzed to be of use. He foresees small to medium companies hiring someone to analyze data just as they hire someone to do their taxes.

“Monitor and take action on the data you receive,” Rosenberger said. “If you hook up a monitoring device and expect it to correct your problem, you might as well save your money.”

Use the data to change processes and standards, be more efficient with time and people.

“Labor is 70 percent of the cost in a warehouse,” Rosenberger said. “If a lift truck is waiting to go down an aisle that is too congested,” or if an operator is waiting for an available truck, that is costing money. One solution is to change delivery times so there will be less congestion and enough trucks to do the work, and have batteries that last the entire shift.

Mary Glindinning is a freelance writer who has worked at daily and weekly newspapers for more than 20 years. She lives in rural Shullsburg, Wis. E-mail [email protected] to contact Mary.


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Let’s make it as simple as possible. It is not brain-surgery, it is not rocket science! It is something that is available to you on almost every information system used by equipment dealers. It is an invaluable program everyone can use to market their services to their vast body of potential prospects or to quickly discover the dealership’s competition for aftermarket services.

We are again talking about the equipment dealer’s unrecognized opportunities. For years the typical equipment dealer in almost all industries has been focusing their efforts on moving the iron. While there is nothing wrong with this focus, it is difficult to understand why, at the same time, they are moving the iron; they fail to promote the dealership’s ability and willingness to service the equipment following the sale.

We are amazed at the number of dealers who have been introduced to computer sales ranking reports that immediately show a group of customers who are purchasing equipment from the dealership, but ignoring the dealership when the time comes to have that same equipment serviced. Dealers are amazed to look at the reports to see just who is purchasing parts from the dealership. A five to ten minute review allows dealers and managers to see just who is buying parts to service the dealerships’ customers. Simply bringing this information to the dealerships’ parts and service managers’ attention should provide enough

prospects to keep managers and dealership’s customer service representatives busy for months.

I have asked myself on numerous occasions: Doesn’t the dealer want this profitable business? When I titled this article: It’s Right in Front of You; that is exactly what I mean. I have sat down with numerous dealers and distributors in all industries, brought the parts managers in, as well as the service managers, opened the file and asked the questions: 1) Is this or is this not a list of prospects for your two aftermarket departments to increase their sales and profitability? 2) Is this not a list of competitors who are taking large amounts of product support sales and profits away from your dealership?

One successful dealer reviewing the reports eventually decided, after seeing how much business, in service, an independent was taking away from him, to take action. The independent was one of the dealer’s top parts customers. Eventually the dealer “bought-out” the independent, and happily one of the side benefits was that the dealer acquired ten qualified technicians all with a combined 125 years of experience servicing the equipment the dealership had sold but seldom serviced. Caterpillar (Dirt Div) announced to their dealers that their records show that globally the company believes their dealers are leaving $18 billion in aftermarket sales on the table; thanks CAT!

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We can continue to think negatively about our service department’s opportunities, or we can take a completely positive attitude toward service. It is the equipment dealer’s last opportunity for high profitability.

How many times have you heard yourself or your fellow dealer make a comment such as: Margins are declining dramatically on our equipment and now the manufacturers are cutting our parts margins and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it!

Couple the unrecognized sales opportunities from service with the unrecognized opportunities for service profits and you will be in a position to control your own destiny as far as margins are concerned. You will have created a winning combination for success, if it is your decision to do so.

We have provided dealers fourteen specific steps to consider if they are interested in turning their service culture completely around. Seven of those steps are listed here. Information regarding the other seven can be found at the end of this article. 1) Turn your shop into an individual profit center, a department that covers all of its expenses and has a “big chunk” left over for the dealership’s Absorption Rate. 2) Eliminate all of your shop

internals. Most internals are nothing more than sales person’s discounts anyway. 3) Look at your shop’s percentage of contribution to total dealership sales. Whatever it is, determine what is needed to increase this contribution by 5% to 7%. 4) If your shop is not “flat rate”, consider doing so. 5) Analyze your shop and individual technician’s Service Billing Efficiency. Determine your own percentage number and compare it with industry standards. Whether it is: 60%, 65% or even 70%, figure out a specific increase for the coming year. See what a minimum of 5% improvement would do for your overall profitability. 6) Figure your Service Gross Profit. If it is running at 50% to 55%, figure out your increased profitability with an additional 5% to 10%. 7) Last, but not least, take a long hard look at your hourly labor rate and make sure you are keeping pace with your service expenses. Don’t look at your labor rate through the eyes of your sales department; don’t look at it from the standpoint of what is being charged down the street. Look at your own labor rate on the basis of what you must charge to make an acceptable profit on your overall shop investment.

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Plan your labor rate increases. Why not consider something simple like a $4.99 an hour increase every six months? Sound reasonable? It is far better to do it on a quarterly or semi-annual basis than it is to make a $25 to $30 dollar increase after five years of no increases.

Whether your dealership is a million dollar operation or a multi-million dollar operation, the ideal situation involving the seven changes mentioned is that in all of the seven changes, additional expenses can be kept to a minimum. By doing this, additional profitability drops to the “bottom-line” of the dealer’s financial statement. Look at the amount of “over-time” your shop is experiencing. Check whether or not this over-time is being billed to the customer and if not then “why not”? Is there any reason why a customer should not be charged time and travel? Have we just continued to allow this to be ignored, without thinking about what it is costing the dealership?

Very few changes in a typical equipment dealership can have this overall dramatic effect upon any dealership’s profitability like the changes you make in properly managing by the numbers!

Can these changes be made painlessly and without a whole lot of additional effort? Certainly not! The changes will require dedication and commitment right from the top. The changes

will also require a truly professional service manager, a manager capable of planning the details and achieving results. Many dealers dislike our thinking concerning internal labor rates. Some dealers we have discovered don’t even have internal rates, sales is billed nothing, nada, zilch for service work. We have found it works to start off by charging sales the same labor rate you set for your best customers ...

There are simple financial exercises to illustrate the typical equipment dealer’s potential service opportunity. What we refer to as unrecognized service profit opportunities. Set your sights on performing the seven steps mentioned above and then do the additional seven in the manual we are offering you. Start off by truly marketing your dealership’s service. Dealerships doing this show parts sales increases of as much as 26% and this is all increased sales and profits with little increased investment.

Become a pioneer in the coming years; focus upon your true opportunities. Head out for the new frontier and increase your profitability accordingly. It certainly can be accomplished if the commitment is made. Things that do not change will continue to remain the same!

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This month I was reading John Mauldin’s Thoughts from the Frontline dated September 14, 2014. In it is an exhibit prepared by Boston Consulting Group comparing manufacturing costs for the top 25 export economies, with some very surprising results. The four major areas of direct costs for each country listed are compared in terms of 2014 dollars. The costs covered are:

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No other costs are considered and the survey covered all the major export economies including China, Mexico, Japan, etc.

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What it shows is labor being the biggest factor among the four expense categories as you would expect. But what is surprising is how much impact energy costs have on the overall outcome. Mexico for example is now manufacturing for a lower cost than China, and from what I have been reading about new manufacturing sites Mexico is getting more than their fair share which is borne out by the new auto manufacturing plants being built in Mexico.

Also surprising is when comparing the US to China they are pretty close, with the US having a 100 reading compared to China’s 96. Mexico is 91. What brings us so close to China is the difference in our energy costs compared to theirs. In short, our excess labor costs are offset by our very attractive energy costs.

After reviewing this chart you have to ask yourself why more manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the US. Unless you are selling a good portion of what you are manufacturing in China to China you have to believe that management will find it advantageous to bring the work home, and thus provide more opportunity for the US lift truck industry.

Sounds easy does it not….it’s cheaper to manufacture here than China so bring the work home. And now we get to the more confusing part dealing with currency values. Want to get a more favorable spot on this exhibit just weaken your currency and the rest will take care of itself. The US Dollar has been pretty strong lately but we still sit attractively on the exhibit because of our very efficient energy cost.

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thing you can count on," he said, "is that things will change. We don't know how, and we don't know when, but we do know that things will change. Your job is to stay in front of the customer and position yourself to be the customer's easiest, lowest risk choice when things finally do change with the competition"

What great advice that turned out to be. The best example was a medium-sized account not far from my home. On my first call there, I met with the head of purchasing. After listening politely to my presentation, he said, "Young man, we already have too many vendors. We don't want to add new ones; we want to eliminate some we already have. Secondly, we don't know much about your company, but what we do know we don't like. So, I'd advise you not to waste your time here."

I considered that a real challenge. So, about six weeks later, I returned with my strongest

product. This was a product called suction tubing, which is a stable item in a hospital. Every hospital uses it in all sorts of ways and places throughout their operations. We had an exclusive with the country's largest and best manufacturer of suction tubing, coupled with excellent pricing. He couldn't say no to my deal on suction tubing.

Again, he listened patiently to my presentation. When I had finished, he said, "We don't use any." I looked through the open door of his office, and saw a supply cart in the hall outside, with suction tubing hanging from it. He was lying to me. I knew it, and he knew that I knew it.

"This really is going to be a challenge," I thought to myself. As I reflected on the account, it became apparent that he was protecting a relationship with my arch competitor. I decided on two lines of attack: Find someone to sell to who wasn't enamored with the competitor, and hang in there as an easy choice if, and when, the competitor stumbled.

That's exactly what happened. I found one of the purchasing agents who was interested in what my company had to offer. When the competitor was backordered on an item, the customer turned to us. We were able to deliver. That eventually lead to our obtaining the contract for that item. And that opened the door, gave me a foothold in the account, and allowed me an opportunity to begin working within it.

Three years later, that account had become one of my best. I had penetrated it to a greater degree than any others. And, the head of purchasing that had previously so ardently protected the relationship with my competitor, now just as ardently protected the relationship with me.

That is what makes it all worthwhile. Almost always, those accounts that protect a relationship with your competitor will just as fervently protect the relationship with you when you become their primary supplier. The payoff is well worth the investment.

Dave Kahle has trained tens of thousands of distributor and B2B salespeople and sales managers to be more effective in the 21st century economy. He’s authored nine books, and presented in 47 states and eight countries. Sign up for his free weekly Ezine or visit his blog at www.davekahle.com. E-mail [email protected] to contact Dave.

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UniCarriers announces Nissan Forklift Nine, Dealer of Excellence and President’s Award Winners for 2013

UniCarriers Americas Corporation (UCA) announces the winners of its Nissan Forklift Nine, Dealer Excellence Awards and its President’s Award winner. The “Nissan Forklift

Nine, Dealer of Excellence Award” for fiscal year 2013, which ended March 31, 2014, rewards and recognizes the top nine Nissan Forklift brand dealers throughout the Americas. The Nissan Forklift Nine winners set the standard to which all dealers representing Nissan Forklift by UniCarriers brand products strive to achieve. They create a culture of sales and service professionalism within their organizations, and reflect UniCarriers Americas’ core values. All Nissan Forklift by UniCarriers dealers are measured and evaluated across major categories, including new equipment sales, market penetration, aftermarket parts sales, service expertise, overall performance and professionalism. To attain status as a Nissan Forklift Nine, Dealer of Excellence Award winner, each organization accepted UCA’s challenge, surpassing previous goals and ranking among the OEM’s leading dealerships. The following nine dealers excelled in these critical areas and earned

the prestigious status as Nissan Forklift Nine, Dealer of Excellence Award winners for 2013:

• Capital Equipment & Handling Hartland, Wis.• CFE Equipment Corporation Norfolk, Va.

Also received 2013 President’s Award• Forklift Systems, Inc. Nashville, Tenn.• Forklifts of Minnesota, Inc. Bloomington, Minn.• Hoj Forklift Systems Salt Lake City, Utah• J.M. Equipment Co., Inc. Manteca, Calif.• J.V. Equipment, Inc. Edinburg, Texas• M&L Industries LLC Houma, La.• MSB Leon S.A. de C.V. Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico“2013 was a transitional year for UniCarriers Americas that

produced positive results for the company and our dealers,” said James Radous III, executive vice president sales, Americas, UniCarriers Americas. “Not only do we celebrate these nine excellent dealers, we appreciate everything they do in representing the face of UniCarriers Americas every day.”

Introduced in 1990, the Nissan Forklift President’s Award, presented by UniCarriers Americas, recognizes a single dealership from its Nissan Forklift Nine, Dealer of Excellence winners, that embodies the essential characteristics found only in the most accomplished organizations. To earn this honor, the dealership must outperform previous years, and reach the highest tier of success.

“The President’s Award represents the premier honor from UCA and is the most challenging accomplishment for dealers.

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“As technology went into hyper speed, so did (company founding president) Bill Jones and (vice president) Jay Spencer. They began writing integrated accounting and innovative inventory programs,” said Kim Prevost, director of business development for eBS.

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Following the company's inception, Jones and Spencer developed a series of new programs designed to work logically with the flow of business. In the 1980s, eBS launched a solution that included real-time accounting, Next Generation. The program featured a distinctively blue screens compared to the green screens in other software of the era.

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Ron Rogers became company presidency in 2008 and began moving eBS at “warp speed” in addition to seeking out the best possible industry partners, according to Prevost.

Now, a half a century after the company's start, the information technology world has changed beyond recognition and eBS has grown and adapted with the rapid changes. The company offers both in-house and Cloud access to its Next for Windows SQL package. In addition, eBS now provides a new Mobile Suite that currently offers a Customer Self-Service Portal (CSSP) and a Customer Relationship Management tool, (CRM). These Mobile Apps are available on both iOS and Android formats as well as via the web.

Key throughout eBS' history has been having real data from the field, according to Prevost. It “has been what has truly made the difference in eBS' solutions throughout its history,” she said.

The largest share of eBS clients are concentrated in North America, Australia and New Zealand. The company has Cloud backups on the East Coast, London and in Sydney, Australia. eBS is headquartered in Houston and is currently setting up an Australian location that will handle support calls, sales and some training.

“But that is not our only area of expansion. Interest from a series of South American dealers – a concentration in Panama – is also looking very promising,” said Prevost, who said the company continues to seek out new clients worldwide. eBS clients range in size from small to some dealers with as many as 500 users.

Many have worked with eBS for a long time, 15 percent for over a decade and a half. The company's oldest customer is now in its 40th year with eBS.

“We are built of hard working, nose-to-the-grindstone individuals,” Prevost said. “We strive to create the best customer experience, with the highest quality product, at a decent price and provide the best customer service.”

Customer loyalty is the highest form of flattery in our ever-changing world.”

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“We are ready to take them there with e-commerce solutions for their parts and equipment that can be customized to their preference and branded to their company.”

The future will hold faster and easier methods of distributing information like diagnostics and meter readings, according to Prevost. She said companies will be able to feed that information into the system regarding those areas “at the click of a button or flash of a light.”

Prevost believes by the end of the next half a century that eBS, already a cornerstone of the equipment software industry, may be revolutionizing entirely new components within the industries it serves.

“We did start out as just a little data reporting station after all,” Prevost said.

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headroom, then a JDN ultra-low monorail hydraulic hoist range has been introduced, initially available with 50 and 100 metric ton lift capacities and designated as JDN UH 50-H and JDN UH 100-H. All these new lifting products can be deployed as viable alternatives to air driven equipment in locations where hydraulic lines, control hydraulic systems or hydraulic aggregates form part of an existing power set-up available at a proposed location site. An already existing Profi range of hydraulic powered

hoists covering lift capacities from 3 to 50 metric tons are now completed with the latest units designated as Profi 75 Ti-H and Profi 100 Ti-H. These products feature top hook suspension, but can be operated as rail mounted units providing lateral load movements when incorporated with powered trolley units. www.jdngroup.com

Larson Electronics introduces a portable explosion proof LED work light

Larson Electronics has announced the release of a new pedestal mount LED work light configured to work on 24 volts DC or AC. The EPL-PM-150LED-24V-100 LED light can illuminate up to 10,000 square feet of work space and features a convenient pedestal mount base stand for easy handling and operation. The EPL-PM-150LED-

24V-100 explosion proof LED light from Larson Electronics is Class 1 Division 1 & 2 and Class 2 Division 1 & 2 rated. This portable LED light is mounted within an A-frame portable stand constructed from non-sparking aluminum and powder coated for increased durability and corrosion resistance. This LED work light produces a brilliant flood pattern of light that is ideal for illuminating enclosed areas and hazardous locations where flammable vapors, gases and dusts may be present. This explosion proof LED light fixture is comprised of a 16" wide by 14" tall rectangle light head mounted within a pedestal base stand with a convenient carrying handle built into the top of the stand. www.larsonelectronics.com

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superior tire & rubber corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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trAnsAMericAn equipMent corp. . . . . . . . 29

tri-boro storAge products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

tvH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 48

unirAk storAge systeMs . . . . . . . . . . . . insert

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