|
|
Post by Mort on Aug 14, 2008 22:06:33 GMT -5
biz.yahoo.com/bw/080804/20080804005630.html?.v=1Well, this sounds like it will do one of three things. 1. Put Cemex out of business 2. When (we) realize the error of (our) ways, the price will stabilize somewhere where it was, but a lot of customers will have gone elsewhere. 3. It will make it alright for everybody else to raise their prices by $25 a yard. Full disclosure: I am a Cemex driver, but this was on Yahoo! News, so I post here with a clear conscience.
|
|
|
|
Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Aug 15, 2008 20:37:30 GMT -5
biz.yahoo.com/bw/080804/20080804005630.html?.v=1Well, this sounds like it will do one of three things. 1. Put Cemex out of business 2. When (we) realize the error of (our) ways, the price will stabilize somewhere where it was, but a lot of customers will have gone elsewhere. 3. It will make it alright for everybody else to raise their prices by $25 a yard. Full disclosure: I am a Cemex driver, but this was on Yahoo! News, so I post here with a clear conscience. Sounds like by raising their prices by 25$ they're bascially tacking on the a unwritten fuel surcharge. Their fuel bill must be in the millions. So that means out here in cali we are going to get a lot of there customers then. Who's going to want to pay 25 dollars more when they can get mud cheaper somewhere else. Especially now that times and money are tight. |
|
|
|
Post by Mort on Aug 15, 2008 23:21:57 GMT -5
Well, if Cemex raises the price by $25, whats stopping everybody else from raising their prices by, oh, $15? Its still $10 less, but they're $15 ahead as well.
It'll all even out in the end.
|
|
|
|
Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Aug 16, 2008 10:19:33 GMT -5
Well, if Cemex raises the price by $25, whats stopping everybody else from raising their prices by, oh, $15? Its still $10 less, but they're $15 ahead as well. It'll all even out in the end. Our company is now owned by Mitsubishi Materials. OUt here they are cornering the market on powder. At the same time we have dropped our prices a lot. We have also begun to sell raw material to our competitors. Something that never would have happened prior to Mitsubisi taking over. |
|
gant
Junior Member
Posts: 12
|
Post by gant on Aug 16, 2008 18:40:39 GMT -5
we are primarily known for commercial but the company is starting to take over residential as well.. we are the largest in MO and have alot of trucks sitting not making money so they lowered the price and the little guys are starting to hurt around here.. while everyone else is closing doors and laying off we are buying brand new trucks..this week was the best week I've had in about 4 months.. i got 44 hours.. 10 of that was overtime and 3.5 was St. Louis overtime at $43 an hour
|
|
|
|
Post by BillyCement on Aug 16, 2008 19:44:15 GMT -5
[quote 10 of that was overtime and 3.5 was St. Louis overtime at $43 an hour[/quote]
Yeehaw!!! $43 an hour? Holy s h i t!! I would shovel out abortion clinics for that kind of money.
|
|
|
|
Post by dwfnga on Aug 17, 2008 9:55:05 GMT -5
we are primarily known for commercial but the company is starting to take over residential as well.. we are the largest in MO and have alot of trucks sitting not making money so they lowered the price and the little guys are starting to hurt around here.. while everyone else is closing doors and laying off we are buying brand new trucks..this week was the best week I've had in about 4 months.. i got 44 hours.. 10 of that was overtime and 3.5 was St. Louis overtime at $43 an hour I know what your saying we must be doing something right we are just a local (NWGA) company but while USA, Lafarge and most the other ready mix companies are laying off we are hiring, buying new equipment and building new plants. Plus our hours are thru the roof over 50 every week for the last 6. |
|
gant
Junior Member
Posts: 12
|
Post by gant on Aug 17, 2008 11:30:18 GMT -5
this is gonna be a nice check..
|
|
|
|
Post by lafargeslave on Oct 17, 2008 22:42:35 GMT -5
yah well some bozo in Lafarge did an analysis and said concrete was too cheap in Atlanta, so we jacked our prices. we are upwards of $140 a yard and still have scheduled increases coming. same time USA (backed by CEMEX) lowered their prices and Thomas stayed the same. Lafarge assumed all would move in step and raise also. wrong answer. we have been laying off heavily was 50 drivers in the city, now 24. was 300 in the overall area, now overall about 200. Bozo management definately made a wrong choice. we have brand new mixers in a lot, with no drivers or work for them. wow. cutting down to 16 total plants to get by. USA is 20 million in the hole by shipping concrete at a loss. we are less than 2.5 million in the hole for the year. new rumor is that we are waiting for USA to go under, and we will pick up their jobs. we hear alot of complants from the pump operators that they are starving them. jobs wait up to 2 hours between trucks (in the middle of large slabs can u say "cold jiont")
|
|
|
|
Post by Mort on Oct 19, 2008 2:33:08 GMT -5
The way I see it, Cemex didn't become the #1 cement producer in the world by being idiots. If they see the need to raise prices by $25 per yard, the market must be able to accept it. If the market doesn't, they will adjust their strategy. But they won't let themselves go under.
|
|
|
|
Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Oct 20, 2008 0:47:43 GMT -5
The way I see it, Cemex didn't become the #1 cement producer in the world by being idiots. If they see the need to raise prices by $25 per yard, the market must be able to accept it. If the market doesn't, they will adjust their strategy. But they won't let themselves go under. Cemex makes most of their money off power VS ready mix. They'll never go under. |
|
