From what I have heard some Eastern employees are already telling customers that they will be handling Hyster as well as Yale. I could see NITCO coming down to the 6 lower counties of New York state which Modern currently covers as they already come down to Westchester county, NY which abuts the Modern counties.
Joe McEwen (the founder of Modern) must be rollling over in his grave if all of this occurs! At one time Modern was one of Hyster's best and biggest dealers! NACCO has really destroyed Hyster's name and lost so much of the share Hyster used to have. At one time Hyster was second best in terms of market share to Clark!