By losing Gregory Poole, I wonder how many forklifts they sold that mcfa no longer will get?

You can guess that the new dealer will pick up some of it but still...

& parts business? Can only guess GP will buy aftermarket Cat, stop buying from pro-match, etc. customers might switch but many stick with the mechanic they like etc

Wonder what the total amount of business hit will be losing that dealer, gotta be big number. Wonder if it helped tipped Mit to buy unicarriers 'hey we bought cat in 1992 but all good dealers gone, toyota kicking our a$$, step up buy unicarriers..mcf thing not getting it done"

wonder if you had a listing state by state
1992 cat market share
2016 cat market share

what would that look like...

GW will have NC and Parts of SC. VA is still being determined with several dealers wanting the territory.

The mfg don't seem to care who they put in. They look for big dealers, but frequently those guys don't know the customers well. They probably won't look too hard to find someone.

I think G&W would be stretching their resources to move up to Virginia. It would make more sense if MCFA just gave the caterpillar brand to their Mitsubishi dealer who is already in Virginia. Eaheart already has branches in the same places as those GP locations. Also Eaheart has sales, service people and training already working with many of those accounts. With all the dual brand stuff people are talking about, Eaheart probably has the option Caterpillar brand.

Aside from turret trucks all of MCFA's line is built out of Houston, TX. If I am not mistaken they are either currently building on to their production facility or have already.

My guess is that G&W will at some point take their line into Virginia. It just makes sense. They have been growing and the consolidation of the Nacco dealers in the area will only help that. I don't see it happening immediately, possibly after they get more of a presence on the coasts of SC and NC working with port equipment they can take it north into Virginia. I am not a geography major by any means but it seems to me that most of the market share for equipment can be found in Richmond and in Norfolk.

Nobody ever truly goes out of business...tooo many manufactures.

Radon you are correct.
Forklifttech Hyster and Yale are really just a name, both were separate companies at one time and through buyouts all fall under the NACCO umbrella. Other than some specialty OEM's no one really manufactures all their own product line.

Last time I checked they(MCFA) have a manfacturing plant in Houston. They don't build all their trucks there true, but the heart of the line trucks are built there.

Again only Cats name is on the lift cat doesn't build it. As far as bells and whistle equals performance. I have seen the comparison test done against mitz ,cat ,Nissan ,and Toyota. The VX was faster and moving the product , cut loading time in half. Yes it loaded one 53 foot trailer and was half way thru the second trailer. They even swapped operators to satisfy management from thinking it was the operators it was the same. They also did fuel consumption test. The Yale burned less fuel than the competition. Call it bells and whistles if you like I call it saving the customer money in the long run. I have 2005 vx trucks still running today. With nearly 20,000 hours on them and still performing. Several have not had the brakes shoes replaced yet again saved the customer money. Those bells and whistles sound like value to me.

hyster yale have ever bell and whistle known to man, Cat and Mitsu build a good solid truck that does the job. not every industrial customer wants every bell and whistle (?how many forklift drivers drive a Cadilac sxv? and how many customers want top pay for one for their drivers?).

Yale and hyster are are light years ahead of cat. And Cat doesn't even bud a forklift anymore.

I to think it was a good move for G&W. I also used to work for G&W and although I had a harder time "fitting" in there then in my current company they do take care of their techs.

I do know Gregory Poole is on a hiring freeze to make sure they have room for all the other employees they just bought out and have al intentions on keeping them even at their current pay.

I'm familiar with the CAT/Mits line but no knowledge of Hyster/Yale. How does Hyster/Yale Stack up to CAT/MIts?

I would say G&W are the people who are benifiting the most by the dealer brand changes in the Southeast USA, and I think it is great. I remember that there was a string of dealership takeovers that really screwed over the employees [the way it happens when Crown inc takes over a local owned dealership] and then G&W took over the clark dealer in Greenville Spartenburg, and took care of all the employees who stayed (as I understand it, they kept their seniority and vacation time and pay scale, some even got more vacation time). that seemed to reset the scale/raise the bar, so to speak. Then they became the cat dealer when Liftone "jumped ship".
And now they are expanding into even more terrortory. While I no longer work for them and have not worked for them for a good number of years, I wish them every bit of good luck.
They are good people in my book, I have and would recomend anyone who wants to work hard and try to succeed to consider their employment.

Gregory Poole is still the MCFA dealer in VA till October when G&W Equipment takes over! Gregory Poole Is dropping MCFA, CROWN, and a few others for the Hyster and Yale Line. Gregory Poole can still service your Cat and Mistsi equipment or you can get a Hyster or a Yale! ;)

I heard that as well