{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dig","title":"Dealer disaster response with Pete Store's Greg Arscott","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1129,"description":"Johnnie: Welcome to The Dig, where Equipment Finance News editors connect with industry leaders and dealers to discuss news analysis, market trends, tips, and more. I am Johnnie Martinez II, Senior Associate Editor of Equipment Finance News, the one news source for both dealers and lenders. \r\n\r\nJohnnie: At this time, I'd like to introduce today's guest, Greg Arscott, president of Peterbilt Dealer the Pete Store. What is the Pete's Store and what area of coverage do you guys have at your dealership? \r\n\r\nGreg: All right, so we are – we have 30 locations, and those locations go from Miami in Florida up to Boston, Massachusetts.\r\n\r\nJohnnie: Gotcha, okay, and so with the main topic of the conversation being around the hurricanes, you are all up and down the coast.\r\n\r\nGreg: Yeah. We had a unique perspective. We were hit multiple stores in different ways. With – to your point, with the – both Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton impacting your stores, differently, I guess for starters, how did you guys prepare for the hurricane season, just to try to get your story as wide as possible? Yeah, well, we have six locations in Florida, and unfortunately, we're pretty good at responding to hurricanes because it seems like, once or twice a year we're being impacted some years even more in really active seasons. \r\n\r\nSo we get the opportunity to run those bases quite frequently. So what we – I mean, what we've done is we have generators that are on standby. We store them at a central location, and we will – and we have pallets of water and food supplies that we keep stationed in a central location. And so then when we have an issue – we also have, like, things like window air conditioning units, right, so for employees – because generally what happens is we have generators at all of our locations. So we have power at our store, but it's our employees that are impacted generally the most, right, because the residential grid takes longer to get up. And in the case of Haleen,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JyKr4xU9r7F_ZHV3lyzf-er5CQgYjOmQLgEUbPPNf8U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YTE4/NDQzOWZlOGY5OGI2/MTVkNTA0ZTNlOGEy/MjVjYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}