I wrote this earier today,

Death of David Warren & Son

Today we lost our family company which this year marked 50 years in business. The company was started with my Great Grandpa in Illinois. My Grandpa then took over the company and watched it grow. It moved down to Florida in 1961. Though the years it grew into one of the largest trucking company’s in central Florida. It had 3 divisions over the years, DEWCO, which was a union oriented company, Daleon, which was a construction company which was latter almost shut down due to bad management, and Midland Leasing, which gave the drivers a chance to purchase the trucks and become there own boss, Midland also ran the shop. The company slowly was in a decline when the state of Florida passed a law that made it to where you must have minority certification to bid state jobs. My Mom then got into the business in 2001 and started her company C-RO-ANN. She got minority certified and it looked like the company was going to have a chance to grow to its former strength. This summer business got slow. We weren’t getting jobs like we had been before and we still tried to pay the drivers for 40hrs even though we only had the trucks going out 3 days a week. Then time for insurance renewal came up. We got the quote and it was high, way high. Too much to be able to afford on the amount of jobs we had running. My Grandpa decided to shut the company down. It hurt many people, to most it was there life. It is a shame that company’s have to go down this way. I guess that it could be due to the economy, or perhaps it was due to happen. Whatever it was, it is life, and that is something that we can’t change. Today, Daleon is now running again and has the shop under it. It will also become the primary company and try to grow. Hopefully, it will succeed and we will see it soar into the future.

-Jamey McKinley
9/29/2006

 

Im sorry to hear of your family misfourtion,It's sad to see(have) a family buss after so many years of profit,rewarding & good times sink beacuse of the falling economy.
It just to bad & it seems as it's the signs of the current time.

I worked for a small co. (of about 40 employes) for 11 years,it was doing very well for our size but every year it seems as though everything was on the incline,but our pay.Any way, at the height of our profits the owner it sold out to a knuckle head and I mean a real idiot!!!!!!
Well he ran the co right into the ground!For me and the others it sucks I have a wife,2 kids a house & 2 cars which = monthly $$$$
Well we all got our vaca pay and that was it.Some times these doors close for a reason & we need to find out how strong we are & hopoefully realize you gotta do what you gotta do,put your nose to the stone & do whats best for you & your family.


Best reguards


Blu_

I had a complete carrer change

 

Sorry to hear the bad news man! I myself am looking to start my own business but afraid to do so. However, need to bid on the jobs in NOLA, they cant find enough people to rebuild there. Best of luck!!

 

join the airforce, its better than college. just kidding. but when im done i'll be working for the government as a translator and starting out at 200K a year. your business doesnt go down the hole when you are part of the government/FBI.

 

Sorry to hear that. Must be hard for your grandpa after 50 years. Wish your family the best of luck!

Mantis

 

Thanks guys, I almost went into the air force after high school. In high school I did 4 years of AFJROTC but my Grandpa talked me out of it and is now paying for my college.

 

ditto. good luck to you and yours.

 

200k a year? For the government? Nice. Does the president even make that much?

Hope it works out!

 

LoL sorry tucky it doesn’t work that way. I just got out of the AF after 7 years as a commissioned officer. Linguists (even separated military) do NOT make that much. You will be a 1NXXX AFSC in the AF. I keep in touch with all my linguist friends I served with in the middle east, were talking really sharp people with Yankee white clearances and they make no where near that. Two of them are retired colonels with over 20 years experience. Please do not listen to your recruiters!!! My suggestion is go to college and get a commission, I did both I was enlisted then I did my masters did 1 year rotc then I got commissioned. I was a Manpower analyst working at AFDW (Air Force district of Washington [reports directly to the Pentagon]) and know the ins and outs of the majority of the career fields incase my knowledge of this subject is in question. Anyway best of luck and serve honorably!

PS President makes 200k a year but all the bonuses that go along with it is worth more. Also the Pres draws the full pay until he dies, just like senators do.



PSS Gov't work is based on funding, you can lose your job in the gov't even the military. I was part of Force Shaping that eliminated 4K positions, including my own! The AF over the next 2 years is loosing 40K positions to meet the congressional quota it has been over in years. I welcomed it because it paid me well to get out. People dont understand how govt is paid and think Oh I get a govt job I have job forever, sorry not the case EVEN in the FBI or any Gov't agency. Just stating the facts...

 

that sucks, the company i work for has been in bussiness 102 years and they almost went under for the same reason, they needed to get minority certified to get jobs. not just any jobs, but jobs from the state. it is a local printing shop with 26 employees, and we started getting jobs from local high schools and various colleage, if it wasnt for there media sports guides we would have been in the hole. and yes there could be better management running the show. comming from a shop that had one hundred million in sales to a small shop that has six million in sales is a big step. dont know what i would do if i ever got a pink slip