I am totally out of it today. I was out of the office for three days and came back to a mess on my desk. Not a good way to start your morning. Mail is piled up, phone messages, faxes and daily book work. Guess [...]
My daughter played her first ice hockey game last week. She plays left wing on an adult coed team’s first line. It’s difficult to express how proud I am of her. For years, she was a swimmer, swimming on a club team and on her [...]
Lloyd worked as a wrecker driver for Paul Lezina, who was a faithful Holmes tower in New Orleans. In fact, Paul was the one who finally convinced the City of New Orleans to purchase a handful of Holmes wreckers to quickly clear double parked cars [...]
Advertising expense is always a tough nut to crack. What will provide the best value for our dollar? If I had a staff of analysts and a crystal ball, I could probably make an informed decision about how to advertise. At least, I would feel [...]
Jimmy and his wife Mary came from the sand hills of Monahans, Texas, where he was a “non-permitted” tower. But they both rose to the level of national prominence by who they were and what they did. Mary was very active as the semi-permanent treasurer [...]
This Sunday is a special day to celebrate our moms — Mother’s Day. In a way, I really think all women are mothers — whether they have given birth to a child or not. One definition of “mother” is a female parent. Case in point: [...]
My first job in towing was working for my dad at the tow yard at age 15, answering phones, rearranging debris, shooting hoops inside the shop and being bored out of my mind for long stretches — 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., weekdays, $200 monthly [...]
As previously reported, long before the Dover acquisition, the Ernest Holmes Company tiptoed around the idea of promoting a “first responder” status for T & R. Bill Jackson sold us on air bags not only for uprighting a heavy trailer but also for shoring an [...]
Modern technology has helped a lot to present a clear picture or story about even minor incidents at a truck accident scene. With smartphones and digital cameras, photos can be taken and video can be recorded at the scene and sent directly to the company [...]
ESPN started a documentary series in 2012 called 30 for 30, which was originally meant to be 30 documentaries covering the 30 years that ESPN has been on the air. Has it been that long since ESPN first came on the air? Hard to imagine [...]
