In Oregonian Business today... About Pick 'n Pull Yards

["Ralph Ausmann" <ralph.ausmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe this is informative to some of you...  I suppose many of us on the AMC
List were well aware of the pick-n-pull networks for parts and how the
individual yards are working.  Anyway here is a couple of articles I read in
our Sunday paper today.  You may have to patch these URL's to get to these
articles, or else just search from www.oregonlive.com.

Profits in parts
Sunday, February 06, 2005
BRENT HUNSBERGER
SACRAMENTO -- Decked in a grease-stained, gray wool jacket and a black
Pick-n-Pull cap turned backward, Ray Thompson pushes a rented wheelbarrow
down the aisle of Pick-n-Pull's neat rows of junked cars. More...  click on
below:

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1107608197300720.xml


For sale: Everything but the tire squeal
Sunday, February 06, 2005
BRENT HUNSBERGER
SACRAMENTO -- Pick-n-Pull makes high profit margins by buying lots of
vehicles, tracking their fate by computer, moving them through junkyards
quickly and squeezing every ounce of revenue it can possibly get out of
them.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1107608124300720.xml

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