AVB, is Piggs (ref. to management) still pumping out their engines today or are they a sinking ship who'll drag Victa down with them?
This is what happens when a company gets too big and cocky. Managers should be in a prison camp or made to repay their salaries from when the rot set in.
From what I get gather it was and is management fault that Briggs is failing. When they filed Chapter 11 they were sold to an investment company. They are just milking Briggs dry before they dump them in my opinion.
Everything from seems to harder to get and if things don't turn around soon they maybe beyond saving. Many equipment OEMs cant get engines from Briggs for their newly manufactured equipment so they are having to source other engines and rework the equipment setups. Briggs did take a broadside shot so the rats are headed to lifeboats. Many of their vendors are probably not wanting to work them again after stabbed them in the back by filing bankruptcy and not paying them what was already owed.
But it seems that every company is using Covid-19 as an excuse too. I got one distributor that saying they are so overworked that they cant keep up with the orders. So I giving them a break by not ordering a single thing from them until at least the end of the year.
Another distributor is starting to charge a surcharge for me to use my credit card to pay them as I place orders. It may be only 1-1/2% but it is principal of the fact they are punishing us credit credit users. Yes I can just pass it along but that not the point. So with them I stopping placing order as of Wednesday until they let me know my options and make them available to me online. At least the business here is currently slow so I can ride this out for a while as I hunt new vendors.
What we have is a vaccine available but here in my areas only 30% of the local have gotten it. Personally I have but many of my customer base refuse to get it. It takes four weeks for it to fully effective at 90+%. They realize too late that they needed it when they get the Covid strain and about to die. I just cant feel sorry for those had a chance but refused. We are yet again approaching 200,000 cases a day here in the states.
