Exciting Times for Trucking Industry
Exciting Times — Labor Times, that is — for Trucking Industry
In 1985, Steven Spielberg produced the now-famous movie Back to the Future, which showcased a futuristic stainless steel DeLorean that traveled back in time to the 1950s. Referring to this movie in his 1986 State of the Union speech, President Reagan said, “Never has there been a more exciting time to be alive, a time of rousing wonder and heroic achievement.”
Reagan’s words were never more true than they are today…for today I have the exciting honor of announcing a time of “rousing wonder and heroic achievement” here at Mitchell 1, the genesis of which also began in the nostalgic 1950s, via our founder, Glenn Mitchell.
His vision saw that mechanics needed a reliable way to accurately estimate the time required to perform service and repair operations on automobiles. Consequently, he introduced his renowned all makes and models Flat Rate manual. But for decades, the commercial trucking industry lacked a corresponding equivalent, until now…
We are proud to present the TruckLabor labor estimating tool for Class 4-8 trucks, which makes its official debut today!
For more information about this exciting new addition to the Mitchell 1 family of products, please visit the TruckLabor webpage. And stay tuned to the Truck blog for more details in the weeks to come…
