Sport05 said "From what I have heard some Eastern employees are already telling customers that they will be handling Hyster as well as Yale"

Maybe Eastern employees are reading this forum?

Modern Handling's collapse is quite noticeable in the greater Philadelphia area.. I came into this business in the mid ninties, I never worked for them, but they were regarded as great company to work for or with. Many techs that I worked with left to go work there , I might have too, except that that I don't like working on hysters. I'm pretty sure none of those guys that worked with back then are still there, most of them were A+ techs too.

Since Yale and Hyster are pretty much identical these days I don't see any big advantages to having both under one roof, except for service and fleet contracts, but that is a big enough piece of the pie that I wouldn't turn it down.

IIf more dual dealers are in NMHGs future plans, it would make sense to make the model lines distinct, like one of the earlier posts suggested.