LowBoy
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2006
- Messages
- 1,149
- Location
- Southern Vt. on the Mass./NH borders
- Occupation
- Owner, Iron Mountain Iron & Equipment (Transport)
I'm starting to notice some pretty substantial increases in parts now. Never really took much heed to it until last Friday. I decided to do a brake job on one of the lowbeds here. I pulled a drum and shoes off, and headed to my local Fleetpride to match them up.
Good news was, they had everything I wanted in stock. They warned beforehand of a shortage and hard time getting many things, especially the more popular parts.
Bad news is...a drum that I bought 2 years ago at $130.00 each is now $295.00 each. The shoe kits (although not earth-shatteringly expensive,) went from around $50.00 a wheel to $90.00 a wheel Friday. That caught my attention.
The salesman said that their house brand (OTR) is made by Webb, a US-based mfger. They are 22 weeks behind in production for all the reasons I won't get into. The mfger. sent out a bulletin recently to vendors asking everyone to "please cancel all of your orders, let us build up on inventory, and then please re-order everything to let us catch up". So they're saying forget about the stuff you've been waiting for for almost 6 months, then re-order it again and wait some more.
That's an eye opener. Certain items are harder to get than others too.
Good news was, they had everything I wanted in stock. They warned beforehand of a shortage and hard time getting many things, especially the more popular parts.
Bad news is...a drum that I bought 2 years ago at $130.00 each is now $295.00 each. The shoe kits (although not earth-shatteringly expensive,) went from around $50.00 a wheel to $90.00 a wheel Friday. That caught my attention.
The salesman said that their house brand (OTR) is made by Webb, a US-based mfger. They are 22 weeks behind in production for all the reasons I won't get into. The mfger. sent out a bulletin recently to vendors asking everyone to "please cancel all of your orders, let us build up on inventory, and then please re-order everything to let us catch up". So they're saying forget about the stuff you've been waiting for for almost 6 months, then re-order it again and wait some more.
That's an eye opener. Certain items are harder to get than others too.