Creative Steel Solutions That Save Money and Time

Finding certain pipe sizes in the surplus market can be challenging if you don’t have the right network to execute. We have spent countless hours building relationships and investing dollars advertising so that we can find opportunities in the surplus market to help our customers find quality products and low costs. One thing I want to add as well is the value of working with a supplier that has great trucking relationships as well to help find great freight rates to minimize those costs as well. Reliable trucking companies are key as well to ensure you can find trucks when you need them as well. This past I received a call from a customer needing 160 ft of 36” pipe x .750” wall. I didn’t have any in my current stock, however I was offered several loads recently from a current surplus vendor of ours. The trucking was a little bit of a challenge because of where the material was located. Sometimes trucking capacity can be an issue in smaller towns. In this circumstance the customer needed the pipe ASAP so I had to work with a carrier with a large network of truckers to get a truck because timing was crucial. So in this scenario I was able to not only use my steel relationships to help our customer save money , but we also used our trucking relationship to get the pipe to our customer when they needed it. Saving customers time and money is a huge component to our their success and our success as well.