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This Issue: New Multi-Purpose Building Subdrain/Sealcoat/Stabilization Stork News Concrete Sales Steady 2001 Golf Outing Flex Information Season Ends on Positive Note 2001 Salsa Winners News from Ames Fall in Ames MIS Happenings Accounting News Benefit Reminders Portable Plant - Newton Newton Commercial Asphalt Newton Milling Division Trucking Department Essay on America HR News Waterloo Area News Safety News Tribute to Harry Kilmer Evaluate Your Withholdings Parts News - Anti-freeze Tidbits D.O.T. Classes New Equipment - Top Priority Ames Ready Mix In Sympathy New Independence Plant A Lot to Be Thankful For WQI is Innovative! Zero to Hero in 60 Seconds Things We Like to Hear Wedding News WQI 6th Annual Bowling News WQI Sympathy |
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Wrapping
Up Another Year As
everyone might guess, our wonderful October and November weather in Iowa
helped us extend our end of year projects and get a whole lot more done
than we thought possible. With our extremely late start this spring,
these extra days helped us heal, somewhat. The beauty of this fall kept many of our
trucks out of the Brooklyn yard and producing revenue. My often-used
statement around Brooklyn is that if the trucks are parked at Brooklyn,
we are not making any money as a company. That is why we try so hard to
get early work. This past spring, so many things worked against us
early, many of our trucks stayed in the yard until June. May this never
happen again. Lots
of good things have happened this year around the Company. We are
expanding again at Brooklyn with a 100’ x 155’ building to house our
Quality Control Lab, a drive through tire shop, and ready mix dispatch.
Our plan is to sell the products building behind downtown Brooklyn to
the City. This new building will be a huge improvement for all involved
in these areas. For many of you that have trucked to our
northern ready mix region, you would see a new United Ready Mix plant at
Elk Run on the east edge of Waterloo. We are also in the building stages
of a new state of the art plant at Independence. I wish all our plants
looked as good as that plant will look. Bruce told me he would be able
to store 22 loads of powder and up to enough aggregate to pour 140 cubic
yards of concrete. WOW!! Dream plant. We are finding more and more piles of
concrete and asphalt to crush in many of the cities and towns we work
in. We now have piles in Des Moines, Ames, Newton, and Grinnell. Next
year, we already have a contract to crush a highway in Arkansas and
crush piles for Martin-Marietta in Des Moines. Imagine that; we’re
crushing concrete and asphalt for the nation’s second largest rock and
sand producer. Cool!! We have people around here that are
constantly coming up with new and creative ideas to do things better or
different than previously done, shifting the paradigm as they sail.
That’s why it’s fun for me to be a part of this organization. I hope
you can say it is fun and exciting for you, also.
Have a good holiday season and thanks for your efforts this past
year!
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