In February and March we added six trucks to our fleet of delivery trucks. Two of them are equipped with 4,000 lift gates capable of handling full pallets of sand or Pool Krete. These are the first trucks we’ve owned with such capability.

Have you ever heard of an “automated” manual transmission? We have a 2007 Freightliner scheduled to arrive in May that will have a manual transmission—but no stick shift. The shifting is operated by computer! The driver simply selects drive, reverse or neutral, and the shifting is done at the appropriate time for him. This is not an automatic transmission is the conventional sense, but a true manual transmission. What will they think of next?