Ep. 33 | Inside Autocar with Cory Roberson on Building Trucks That Keep America Moving on The Hub with Michael Allen

Most people see the trucks. They don’t see the people, process, or precision behind them.

On this episode of The Hub with Michael Allen, we sit down with Cory Roberson, General Manager at Autocar in Hagerstown, Indiana, to break down what really goes into building the work trucks that keep distribution centers moving and refuse routes running across the country.

Cory takes us inside Autocar’s vocational lineup, from the ACTT terminal tractor, the yard dog moving trailers nonstop, to the ACMD cab-over platform built for refuse and specialized applications. We get into what’s produced in Hagerstown versus Alabama, and why Autocar has built its reputation on listening to customers and delivering true customization instead of cookie-cutter builds.

We also dive into how the industry has evolved. More technology, more options, and more pressure to keep trucks running at all times. From telematics and safety systems like collision mitigation to the realities of sourcing and rising costs after COVID, Cory explains how the operation adapts while still building a hands-on product where no two trucks are the same.

If you’re considering a career in manufacturing, this episode gets real about what Autocar looks for in new hires, how training works on the floor, and why mindset and reliability matter just as much as experience.

This episode of The Hub with Michael Allen is brought to you by Manpower Eastern Indiana, connecting people with opportunities across Richmond, New Castle, Portland, and surrounding communities. (Manpower Richmond)

Watch and listen now at mpeasternindiana.com and follow @thehub_pod on YouTube and Instagram for more conversations with the people driving growth across eastern Indiana.

Transcript

Welcome, Sponsor, And Guest

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Behind every growing business is a team of great people. This is the Hub Podcast sponsored by Manpower Eastern Indiana. I'm your host, Michael Allen. Each episode we connect with the people helping build stronger companies and communities across eastern Indiana. Hello and welcome to the hub. I am your host, Michael Allen, and today I'm uh I have Corey Roberson with me. Uh Corey is the general manager at AutoCAR in Hagerstown, Indiana. Corey, welcome to the hub.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Hey, thanks for having me, Michael.

Corey’s Career Journey

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Hey, so glad to have you here. I I wanted mainly want to talk about autocar, but before we get into that, I do want to just share with our followers a little bit about yourself, kind of where you're from, family, ending up at AutoCAR.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

So Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Uh again, Corey Roberson. Um I'm I'm a Huger. Um been here for uh uh sorry. No, keep going. You're fine. Um again, yeah, Corey Roberson, uh a Hugier. Um grew up near Kokomo, Indiana.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

Uh went to a little school called Tri Central um years and years ago, but uh went to Purdue University. Uh actually heading there tomorrow to do some recruiting uh as well. And um yeah, just been in the automotive industry for uh uh close to what 28 years now. And uh got back uh I was up in Michigan, had a chance to get back to Indiana with AutoCAR uh 23 years ago. So I've been there 23 years.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

So you're uh Purdue grad, and uh when you went when you came to AutoCar, what was your original, what was your first position that you had there?

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Yeah, it's been uh it's been quite an experience. Um AutoCAR has allowed me to grow uh uh as an employee and and sort of a professional. Um but I started um on the floor um uh in a supervisor role, um, worked that uh sort of to an operation manager role, and then um from there started learning the entire different sides of the business. So uh spent some time in sales, uh, spent some time in service, uh, spent some time with engineering, just a number of different things just to try to learn all different facets of the business, as well as purchasing and procurement, um, and then uh kind of culminating here with this uh general manager, right? So um we have uh two facilities, uh one here in Indiana, uh obviously Hagerstown. We also have one in Alabama, uh in Birmingham, Alabama. And so the one here in Alabama or the one here in Indiana, um I'm the general manager uh and I handle everything on the operations side. So um, you know, plant engineering, um uh supervision, uh materials, production, um, all the assembly, uh sort of the flow of material in and out with uh uh planning and procurement. So a number of different things. Um we just try to say, you know, everything with within the four walls, uh we kind of do uh uh you know under under our guidance.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

So what was your uh what was your field of study at Purdue when you first decided to go?

SPEAKER_00 3:19

Yeah. Uh studied uh industrial management with a miner in manufacturing engineering.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

So so really you've you kind of got into what you thought you would. I mean, as far as Yeah, I mean it's you went into a field that you had envisioned when you first started.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

Yeah, yeah. Now I I when I when I first started at at Purdue, um I thought I want to be an electrical engineer, and then and then I switched over into this industrial management type role and um uh kept a little bit of the engineering with the manufacturing engineering. And uh yeah, I since then I all the jobs I've ever had, I'm sort of in the automotive or um that sort of realm, if you will.

Detasseling Corn Lessons

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Yeah. Well, I'm gonna take just a quick step back, and we always like to ask on this podcast, uh if you can recall what your very first job was.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Uh so you're talking like teenage years?

SPEAKER_01 4:14

Yeah, just when you when they took when they when the government decided they were taking taxes away from you.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Uh well, I did I detasseled corn, uh, my very first job. Uh very first day, didn't understand uh um didn't understand you know how much energy and whatnot you would need. So I got up. Uh I remember this like it was yesterday. Got up, uh my mom, you know, woke me up when I was you know 13, you know, and they uh she drove me to uh uh to the location, I think it was for a pioneer on that first summer. And uh all I had was a nutty bar for uh breakfast. And uh by 10 o'clock in the morning, I was dead. Uh just dead. And I and I literally thought I wasn't gonna make it. Um even our crew boss didn't think I was gonna make it. But then the next day, you know, I come back, had a full uh breakfast in my stomach, and um, before you knew it, uh I love detasseling. The next summer I was, you know, a crew boss of driving the tractor, if you will, of the machine.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Do they still detassel?

SPEAKER_00 5:13

I don't you know, I don't know if they still do that as much anymore because it's automated. I've seen that where they, you know, they have the automated cutters that go out there and grab and so all the engineering and stuff they do in agriculture. Every now and again you'll see a crew of uh you know kids out there detastled, but it's it's not not like it was.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Are you being pulled like on on like a I don't know how's that how do you do how's that work?

SPEAKER_00 5:34

I don't know what that piece of equipment is called, but it's basically a you know a tractor that has um baskets in it, like long arms that come cantilever out from the middle, and then they have baskets that hang down, and then like two people sit or stand in a basket, and one's on this side, one's on this side detasseling the corn, right?

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Yeah, that sounds kind of dangerous. A little bit.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Yeah, I don't know if they do that anyway, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah, well, I mean that's that's interesting because I think I had some friends like when I was, you know, high school, whatever, that would do that um uh during the summer.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

And it was a good summer job back back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

So long hours and I was more of a lawn mowing type of guy uh uh back in the day, and and I'm still mowing yards to this day. Is that right? Well, at home. At home, yeah. So uh you told us a little bit about your current role, and you've been with the company uh 23 years. So give us a little bit of an overview of uh the org of autocar in general, you know, the products that you make, and kind of start there, I guess.

What Autocar Builds

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Absolutely. Um you know, we started uh uh here in Hagerstown in 2003 with production. Um and uh early on we we made a product called the WX that evolved into the ACX. This is used in the refuse, refuse industry. Uh-huh. Actually, the city of Richmond um was uh probably about the second year we were we were there, probably 05. Um we sold the city of Richmond a handful of uh uh units, for example. Richmond Recycling Center has has one of the uh ACXs that's been on the road for 20 plus years. Um but anyways, the uh uh started with the refuse side, and that's sort of the core of our business. And we've just expanded from then uh from there. Uh I think it was 2008. We started the ACTT, which is the terminal tractor, and uh that's what we build currently in Hagerstown.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

They call those yard dogs, yard dogs, yard mules, um, number of different things. But uh yeah, so they're used at distribution centers and whatnot to uh move freight uh you know on a trailer versus you know a semi, just you know, they call them shunt trucks.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Yeah, there's several in town. You see see quite a few of them.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Yeah, it's funny, like you uh uh you know you have big fleet customers that might have, you know, an order of 100, 200, 300, but 50% of that market is is one onesie twosies. Um so they're they're kind of all over the place. Um I think it was 2012 we started with the ACMD, which is kind of a little brother, if you will, of the ACX. So it can be used in the refuse uh industry as well. These are the refuse trucks that we build are both are cab over. So the cab sets over the engine. So that lets you do like the front loader where the arms come down in front and it picks up and goes over the back of the truck. All right. Uh you can do a side loader, do a rear loader as well, but um the cab over is kind of our niche. And um we have uh uh the ACMD, like I say, is a smaller version of that. Also used for like Elgin sweepers. And then recently uh in 2019, we started the DC. So that's more the conventional truck uh that you would see like for a dump truck, um, you know, a concrete uh uh mixer, uh, for example. Um and that those lat are that that one is built in Alabama exclusively. All right. The first three that I talked about, we used to we built them all here in Hagerstown. Currently, we just build the ACTT and the ACMD here in Hagerstown.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

But there's a that's a pretty big market, isn't it, for those? I mean, for for what we oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

Uh you know, for our ACTT, we have we have been as high as almost, well, we've been over 3,000 trucks in a year um that we've built. The market itself is probably somewhere around 8,000 trucks or so a year. All right. Um, you know, again, it that that that that varies, sometimes 7,000, sometimes you know, 10,000, but somewhere around 8,000 of those trucks a year, probably.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

So you're not making the units currently that um the way like the waste management trucks or whatever. Did is waste management with Eric were they or are they a client? Absolutely. Okay, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

So so we we make all those four trucks that I just talked about. Our plant in Hagerstown makes the ACTT and the ACMD. The other two products are made in Alabama. Um those are larger trucks, bigger trucks. Both of our, we have uh we have two buildings there on on the campus, and both of them are about 500,000 square foot. Uh here in in Hagerstown, um, you know, we do a lot, but we do a lot in 120,000 square foot.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

So it's quite a bit different. And uh we just as as we grew um and as as we've grown as a company, kind of needed to expand.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of uh in Wayne County, you know, that was a your building was perfect circle, yeah. At one time, and which was a huge employer in this uh community years ago, and there's there's a lot of buildings that have been repurposed, and you can get into those buildings fairly inexpensively, but then you know you there's limitations because you didn't build them specifically for that purpose.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Exactly right. And that's why our our assembly line looks a little bit the way that it looks, like uh, you know, now you would you would build it all in a straight line or just a U shape, but because we've had to cram this in here, ours kind of looks like a paper clip.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

Yeah, I mean it's uh times that I've been there and seen everything, though. I mean, it's as old as it is, it's pretty nice building.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Oh, our building works really well for us, right? Like again, the the it lends itself to that the smaller trucks. I mean, if you talk about wheelbase, um, you know, the the ACX is you know, can be 209 all the way to uh you know 250, 54 inches. Our trucks that we build are like, you know, uh 116.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

You know, so it's it's it's smaller, right? So so it lends itself to to the trucks that we build here at Hagerstown pretty well.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Yeah. When you weren't doing the uh yard dogs, yard mules, um when you were making like the other vehicles, normally it was just a chassis and then the cabin, and then they would the other part would be put on in a note somewhere else, right? Is that like that would hold a refuse or whatever? Is that true? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

The body. So yeah, we would we would build a truck and ship it to and we still do this again in in Alabama, but we would build the truck, ship it to uh you know, Heil or whatnot. But now we've uh sort of evolved the industry um to bodybuilder integration, and there's certain refuse uh trucks that we build and we essentially mount everything. So there's roll-off trucks, and uh we have the ability now in our Alabama plant that uh if you want a roll-off truck, for example, um we can build it and with a partnership with some of the different body companies, we'll mount that piece of equipment there on the truck and send it directly to the customer.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

So how many um how many employees do you have in uh Hagerstown at this around? Approximately about how many do you have there now?

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Approximately so yeah, so um well on the floor, we're trying to get back to 85 um and uh um you know possibly we'll we'll be even higher than that by the end of the year. Yeah. Um but um uh and then uh with the salary folks there, you know, it just depends. We we have um uh service and warranty and you know some procurement and uh planning um that all work out of that building, but a lot of the a lot of those jobs can be done remotely, and they also support both plants, so it's hard to say at any given time how many exact people are in the building. Um but there's about another 50 or so salary, uh salary employees that work throughout.

How Trucks And Work Changed

SPEAKER_01 13:56

How is um so I mean I think you're still a pretty young guy. But you may I mean you've been there 23 years. That's a pretty good body of work. And so how how have things changed just in your like two decades that you've been there from you know when you're there on on the line? And I mean, how how has the vehicles changed or or has or maybe it's not changed that much? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

I mean, what's uh you know it's uh it's a great question. Um how we've built them has changed a little bit to where we've uh it's a little bit more technology or newer, you know, new new tools and whatnot that we use. Um but that that's pretty much stayed the same. I'll say what what has changed the most is probably two things. The the amount of customization, okay, um, and and you know, all the uh technology that we're putting on these trucks now, um to where you know it's some of it's quite advanced. Um you have um uh you know um a number of different things to where we're trying to, you know, um what's the right word? Uh collision mitigation, okay, for example, um all the way through uh telematics and whatnot, so that uh uh you know you can you can see how that truck is doing um you know 24 hours a day, seven days a week, how it's running, uh a number of different things there. Um just all the new products that have come out that uh help our customers from you know fuel mileage to hard breaking events to you you you name it. Um we we put it on trucks. So that's changed quite a bit. I would say the other thing is is again just COVID and the pricing structure and the pricing uh and cost um structure. Uh you know, always trying to look at um just uh creative ways to source things.

SPEAKER_01 15:53

It's funny I I can't tell, you know, I've done several of these podcasts now, and it's it's always interesting how COVID uh worked its way into the conversation because it's it really it really changed the employment picture dramatically, I think, especially in our area a lot in a negative way. And I just think we're just still trying to recover from that uh quite a bit. You mentioned stuff about the customization. I mean, you kind of tout that I I was kind of just looking at the website, and and that's that's a selling point that autocar makes, I believe, if I read right, you know, the the customization that you can do for your clients and you're willing to do that. Yeah. And so I'm sure that's a niche that that you're able to fill.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

It's probably our biggest uh selling point to say, you know, we everything that we do is custom and custom built, and also just the fact that we listen to our customers, right? Like uh we joke all the time, you know, our uh one of our uh owners um and president Jimmy Jimmy Johnson, who used to live here in Richmond. Yeah, um, you know, if you wanted a wood grain steering wheel, you'd get a wood-grained steering wheel. You know what I mean? And and uh so it's one of those things that that we take a lot of pride in is being custom built. Um also our service and our service network, uh, and just sort of our mantra of always up, uh, meaning, you know, we never want the truck to be down in the field uh to where it can't run. Um so we uh we do a lot there uh from a direct standpoint, you know, um call us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we'll help you get the truck back up and going.

Who Autocar Wants To Hire

SPEAKER_01 17:26

So right right now, you know, you're locally you're on a kind of an upward trend as far as you know your production needs and whatever. And so I guess what are if you're interested in working at auto car, what are the kind of things that you're looking for for an employee to bring them in the door? I I assume right now those are gonna be more production, those are gonna, well, I'm not assuming those are gonna be more production roles, but kind of just share with us kind of what are some of the things that you feel are important for somebody that when you're looking for someone to come in and put them out on the floor and and do the work, some of the qualities and uh skill sets that that you feel is necessary for these folks.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Yeah, absolutely. I'd say one of those is you know the ability to learn. Um, and uh what I mean by that, just to be clear, you know, we we only build a handful of trucks each day. I mean, even if we're at our peak at 10 or 12 a day, that cycle time is still you know 40, 40 minutes. Um right now we're building about uh five a day, you know, so it's like an hour and twenty minutes or so, an hour and ten minutes. Um so so so if you can think about that, that station and where that person was working at, there is a lot that they do in that hour and ten minutes. It's not a factory job to where you'll you know push a butt, you know, push a button, install something, push another button, right? It's uh much more uh hands-on. Um and there's you know uh 3D models, um uh videos, 3D models, a number of different things that we use to help guide those employees through to say, hey, install this, install that, do this, do that, torque this, whatnot. Um so the ability to learn is a is a big one um because it uh uh which which I love because um combined with the customization, like no true, no two trucks are ever the same. So you're never bored there, right? It's not it's not the same mundane task of you know doing the same thing over and over, right? So um I think that's one um sort of a willingness to grow. Um uh you know, there's there's times where you know maybe you you'll you'll work in a station uh you know, whatever, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks before uh ever even learning another station. But we like to try to rotate uh people through so they learn more than just you know one station, if you will, or one job. Um and then uh you know show up ready to work, having have have sort of a winning attitude. Um and uh and and I say that because you know we're a small company. Um we compete against Peterbilt, Mac, Capacity, Calmar. These are large companies that we're competing against. So um sort of this uh winning attitude or or or trying to win um is huge for us because we're competing against the big guys each and every day.

unknown 20:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Any other ability to learn and you know dependability, reliability. I mean, those are those seem like they're pretty given, but they're you know, it can be tough. Yeah. Those qualities of people I sort of personal experience dealing with just hiring people every day. Um and uh I I I think Hagerstown's a great little town and everything's great there, but I I would think that amazingly transportation is kind of a big issue for people. And so that's you know, to be able to to work in at autocar, you're gonna have to be able to physically drive there. It's not like, you know, in town we have uh there are different cab services and pick people up and take people around the Richmond area, but you know, having reliable transportation is really kind of a big component to be able to come to work every day there.

SPEAKER_00 21:31

That's a good point. Yeah. I mean, you know, we do have some employees that live there in Hagerstown that that just ride bike, for example. Um we do have uh a number of employees, employees that uh sort of ride share.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

Um and so you know, that's the one good thing, too, about being small. Um, you know, our everybody can get together and talk and say, Hey, can you give me a ride this day? You know, those kind of things. Um, one of the other things I forgot to mention, I I I would really say um, you know, anytime they they can. And bring excuse me, new ideas to the table. Um we're always looking to figure out, hey, is there, you know, a different way to skin the cat, if you will. Um so uh you know, fostering that sort of uh culture with new ideas and whatnot is important to us as well.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

There's not a lot of uh unless you go drive maybe an hour or so away from our region, there's not a lot of, I don't believe, companies that do the same kind of work that you do. Right. Now, if you had the old carpenter and Wayneworks, whatever, they probably those when they were making buses here in town, if you had somebody at the background like that, they probably could have some really good carryover skills to bring if they weren't there for whatever reason. But that industry's been gone so long that there's really not that there's not a pool of people that work there that you know. I mean, my dad worked there and he's eighty, gonna be eighty-two this year. Is that right? So I mean it's not you know, it's not you know, that that that workforce is aged and moved on, they're not they're not part of the pool that we can uh take from. So if is there some type of uh work that somebody's done that in this area there or the work experience that they have that would be applicable to what you do locally if if it's like, hey, if you have this kind of experience, I think you ought to apply to come work for us because I think we you've got the skill set that can carry over to us. Yeah, and maybe I'm hopefully I'm saying that.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

No, I I yeah, I I got you. I understand uh, you know, the question um there's there's so many different things uh from a manufacturing standpoint that uh you know other companies do that you know we do we do similar, right? We do very similar work as well. Um but I also think that uh so so yeah, so if if if someone has previous experience at uh you know any sort of automotive or any sort of manufacturing, we can figure out a way to use that. Um but I also think that uh uh you know uh here in May, you know, we've got uh uh uh a number of people getting ready to join the workforce, workforce uh coming from high school.

unknown 24:19

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

And uh some of the some of those characteristics that I'm talking about, some that you mentioned, the dependability, reliability, you know, we we look at it like we'd love to teach uh someone new um these sort of skills. Um and I'm talking about the manufacturing side of things once once they were to get started. So I think there's a number of different uh things to pull from there. Um the the uh the uh uh Wayne uh bus company you just spoke about, actually, our uh uh first employees came from there. I'm sure uh our we used to call them the the dirty dozen, like the first the first 12 uh employees that we started with, uh a number of them, probably six or eight of them came from there. So uh we were very fortunate starting out that we had a lot of that experience or had a lot of uh similar ideas like that uh um you know from from from people's previous employee employment. Um but I think there's things that are out there now that'll translate over to what we do, especially like I say, the um you know the ones coming straight from high school. A lot of what we do uh is just working on the computer, working to find the 3D models and those kind of things that I think those those guys uh might be a little bit better at than than some of the others.

What Training Looks Like

SPEAKER_01 25:32

So I I'm hired to come in and work on the line. I'm I'm new. So what's the kind of the first couple of days gonna look like for me? Potentially where might where on the line might you put me since I'm new today, and and what's those first couple days gonna look like?

SPEAKER_00 25:50

Yeah. Well, it it it depends. Um if if we're hiring in a big group, if we're hiring in a big group, we have a training center that we'll put you through for the first uh day and a half to two days, uh, where you just learn how to use a torque gun, for example. Um, you'll learn the different parts of the truck, you know, this is the frame rail, this is the cab, this is this, those kind of things. Um if it's just sort of a onesie twosie uh type hire, um, we will put you on the line um with another employee um that has been there for a while, and we'll go through, okay, you know, here's here's how you find the bill of material, here's how you work the computer, here's what you do to click on to get this image uh to pop up. And then slowly but surely, you know, hey, here's how you do, you know, here's how you install this fuel filter. And what what is torque? Well, we explained torque, and then it's you know, use this gun, it'll shut off when it reaches torque, you know, those kind of things. Um there'll be some quality inspection that's done. Um, but slowly but surely get you up to speed. Again, like I say, some of these jobs, like I say, are hour, hour and ten minutes, so it's not like you can learn um everything in one day. Yeah. Um, so it's kind of like piecemeal, right? Um, so that's why, you know, it'll be a I'd say it'll be a good three or four days before you'll do the entire job the first time by yourself.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Great. And there'll be someone there with you.

Pay, Benefits, And Next Steps

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Uh what are to kind of wrap things up, what are some of the the the benefits of being an autocar employee? I mean, uh as far as you know, besides just having a great place to work and and uh kind of making kind of a cool product, uh as far as uh the benefits and that kind of stuff, what what are those like for for auto car?

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Yeah, uh well currently we're starting out pay at$18.50.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

I mean obviously that goes up based on uh tenure and such uh with the company. And then uh, you know, your standard um just like a number of other emplo employers, um, you know, we have insurance um with vision, dental, uh, et cetera. Uh and then um uh you know, again, like I say, great place to work, uh sort of a good community atmosphere. Um and uh you know, I like say I've been there 23 years, some somewhere you can you can you know establish a career and and the longevity of of auto car. Auto car is the oldest nameplate in the trucking industry, uh started in 1897. So um, you know, we've been around forever, uh, and and that's our goal is to to keep uh keep things here in Wayne County as well as our our plant in Alabama.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Yeah, absolutely. Uh any other may I may have missed something. Anything else that you want to share about the company or or about opportunities there? Or it may not be, but I just want to make sure we just catch something if there is.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Uh, you know, just check out our website. Um we do have uh, like I say, we're working with Manpower currently on some of the uh hourly and production folks that we're looking for. I think I mentioned earlier I'm heading to uh Purdue uh tomorrow. Do some recruiting for so for some salary positions. Um and uh so there's plenty of opportunity there for uh for anyone uh listening, um, and we'd love to have you.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Yeah, great. Well, thank you for sharing that. Yeah, if it's autocartruck.com, right? Or is it autocar.com. I get confused sometimes. Yeah, the website.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Name of the company is autocar, but the website is autocartuck.com.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Yeah, so uh they've got a lot of good for information on there, so check that out. Uh Corey, thank you for sharing. You did a great job today. You've got a great voice uh for this venue. Uh I do appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

Yeah, no, I really appreciate you uh uh having me on here, and hopefully this helps uh uh helps manpower, helps auto car.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Yeah, yeah. Well, appreciate what you're doing in auto car and so hey, whatever platform you're watching or listening to, uh please uh help spread the word. Like, share, and subscribe. Thank you very much. Thanks for listening to the Hub Podcast sponsored by Manpower Eastern Indiana. If your business needs great people or you're looking for your next opportunity, contact Manpower Eastern Indiana today.