I did some work at Walmart. They always think everything is under warranty, no matter what. They are the biggest pain in the butt customer I have ever worked for. Give me the small businesses and the mom & pop's.

Maybe Wallyworld is going to support their friends in China, so maybe they can bankrupt their Chinese friends as well. Maybe Crown is being overlooked for the THANKYOU forklift company, and soon, Batman will be at Wallyworld servicing his favourite brand. lol lol

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

They also make up for the low initial costs on national accounts by jacking up the cost for replacement parts.

Toyotaman, that was actually just a little joke from me to see what kind of response I would get from it. Let me explain exactly how I feel about Toyota. They make a quality product, but there business ethics are suspect. The dealers I know, 3 different ones, lie, cheat and steal to sell forklifts. Probably because they have to because the factory is always hounding them to sell more product. I have seen Toyota come in and take big accounts with their low lease rates and subsidized financing only to lose the account again in five years because they rip off the customer during the lease period to make the money back they lost on the sale. Not a good way to do business. I never bad mouthed competitors when I was out selling, I sold on merit. You can't win every sale so losing a sale never bothered me. As far as Toyota selling more forklifts than anyone else, they do, because of their national account program. Toyota gives forklifts away to snag up national accounts so they have a guaranteed number of forklifts every year that will be purchased from them. They take this lost money that they lose on national accounts and add it back into the selling price of their forklifts for the customers who are not national accounts. So, smaller accounts may be paying upwards of $5,000 extra to finance the Toyota national account program. Sort of a crap on the little guy to help out the giants. Not a very good philosophy, but Toyota's number one!

Batman,

I guess life is tough since Toyota has been #1 since 2002. And by the way Toyota
(cars and lifts) has never laid off an emplyee in their 40+ years in the US.

Batman, if you tried positive selling rather than negative you might get some more business! Sell you fine attributes of your product rather than trying to say that Toyota builds a bad product. There are not too many people that think Toyota is a bad manufacturer, (you're embarrassing yourself!).

I heard it's due to Wal-Mart's halt in buying trucks. Since Wallyworld is one of, if not the largest Crown cutomer, it hurts them badly. Bad enough to let people go.

I read the article, but am not sure about the facts. Is is possible Crown is laying of because they are doing more outsourcing?

Toyota is always hiring qualified scam artists who want to sell their forklifts.

I visited the TOYOTA factory in Columbus, In. about 3 weeks and there was a sign out front "now hiring".

I saw the newpaper article about 3 weeks ago. They laid off about 200-300 people just in time for the hilidays.

Crown has a full line of Class 2 trucks when just about everyone else has spent the entire year scrambling to complete their own lines and Crown lays off workers? If they can't sell their trucks now good luck trying to sell them when everyone else catches up and has a full line to offer.

Crown lays off employees.......Crown to manufacture their own line of IC trucks in US. Something doesn't sound right to me.

I think it is a joke