I decided to get out of the forklift business working for a dealer in November here in SC. I saw the customers already switching in the repair ideals (fix it to quote), plants going into slow down or shutting, coupled with the decisions (at the customers) going from business sound to only the cheapest. Our work week was shrinking rapidly from wide open, work what you want (typically 50+ hrs a week) too trying to find 40. Couple this with the upper managements decision to keep adding techs, bill them out - even if they are not trained (so they get the gravy work), made me decide that it was time to change companies (though still in the repair world.