"We needed a more reliable truck that could give us dependable service."īarbour said he found a solution, thanks to a 1-800-PACK-RAT franchise in North Carolina that had begun buying Kenworths - having great success with uptime and fuel economy. "What we were running then was really limiting us in servicing our customers - we couldn't go 40,000 miles before a problem would crop up," recalled Barbour. Kevin Barbour, senior vice president of operations for 1-800-PACK-RAT, is shown with one of the company's Kenworth T370s.Īccording to Barbour, the company began standardizing with the Kenworth T370 medium duty truck several years ago after moving from another brand truck due to reliability issues. This patented system is what launched our business." That means items in the container stay put and valuables don't shift or break with gravity. Instead of moving the container at an angle, which is common in the industry, the lift moves the container straight up. "It's a weatherproof unit, plus a lift system that can place an 8,500-pound container on a truck bed without swaying or shifting the contents. "Our founder jokingly called what he developed a "pack rat" because of the container's ability to store everything," recalled Kevin Barbour, senior vice president of operations for 1-800-PACK-RAT, the company's actual official name. That's exactly what a North Carolina entrepreneur did 13 years ago when he examined the home and commercial "container storage" industry, where household and commercial goods are stored in containers and then moved elsewhere for temporary housing. Take an existing idea, and improve upon it. For many businesses, the key to success is to build a better mousetrap.
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