If you've driven by lately, you noticed that the Maintainer South plant is fully enclosed now! The paint booth construction will finish this week, and the office construction was started this week. Air compressor installation will start next week. We are receiving more equipment every day and are still planning on production beginning before the end of the year!
by Shelley Morris - Later this month we will be hosting our annual Dealer Council meeting via the web. We rotate between onsite meetings and webinars. Dealer Council started over 20 years ago as a means to gain insight into the successes and…
by Shelley Morris - As you know, we are currently working through year-end railroad orders. Railroads (and many of our other customers), have year-end deadlines to meet. All of the railroads operate as publicly-traded companies, with firm annual…
by Shelley Morris - There is evidence that the economy is slowing, even though it has not trickled down to affect the work truck industry much. Fiscal Year 2019 orders were down slightly, but still extremely strong when compared to our capacity. It…
by Archie England - I had mentioned in the last newsletter that we may be fortunate enough to have Dr. Rajan Suri, the creator of the QRM principles (and author of numerous books on the subject), provide training for Maintainer. Well, it has been…
by Archie England - This month I will be spotlighting a department that has a lot of daily interactions with many departments in the company. So, you will likely know their faces, even if you may not know what they do.The Product Engineering…
by Ray Waite - Wow, I cannot believe that 2019 is coming to an end so soon. This year certainly went by fast and the holiday season is a certain reminder that we will be starting a new year soon. I'm sure many of us will be traveling for either…
by Clark Davidson - Every year, the bad guys take advantage of innocent taxpayers, like you, who are patiently waiting on their tax return. Last year, the IRS noticed a significant increase in phishing attempts to steal money or tax data, therefore…
by Tom Leckband - Recently we shipped out two trucks to the Moraga Orinda Fire District, just 20 miles east of San Francisco. This fire district is tasked with protecting much of the woodland area on the southern edge of the Napa Valley wine area.…
We had one new employee join us in October We are all really excited to welcome you to our team! We look forward to working with you and seeing you achieve great things at Maintainer.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 BBQ Contest! All the entries were delicious! Thank you to all the contestants for taking the time to prepare all of the barbecue for the rest of us to enjoy. It is always a good time!
ONE-POT AUTUMN HERB ROASTED CHICKEN WITH BUTTER TOASTED WILD RICE John Onken submitted one of his and Adele's favorite fall dishes to make together. John and Adele have been married just over one year, and enjoy splitting up the cooking…
Some of the employees really got into the spirit of Halloween: Josh Davidson was Mr. Incredible, Jaimie Marra was an inmate, Shane Dickson was a deer, Kathy King was a pumpkin, and Lori Lange was a big bad lion! I heard the lion handed out a lot…
UPCOMING EVENTS: Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule: Maintainer will be closed November 28 and 29 in observance of the holiday. All full time employees will receive 16 hours of holiday pay for November 28 & 29. NOTE: Employees must report to work the…
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