It has been 30 years since Stakemill started in Largo Florida to supply land surveyors with a quality stake. Quite a bit has changed since then, no one pulls a chain any more, data collectors have WiFi and Bluetooth, surveyors are just as accurate as when they were done with just a level, of course you can survey much faster now. One thing that still remains the same is that Stakemill has maintained more of its core customer base than most other stake companies claiming to be the oldest or one of the longest established. One hard hitting fact of 2008 is the diesel prices reaching over $4.40 a gallon, just five years ago they were under a buck fifty. Lumber is a commodity and diesel fuel is needed to log the lumber, truck the lumber to the mill and truck it both to our production facility and back out to our customer. What does this mean to the surveyor and contractor? Be sure to use a centraly located producer of wood stakes, we can reach more major markets in two to three hours than any other producer that claims to have been established as long as Stakemill has.
We have mentioned this before, and seen it recently hit the Ft Myers market and are also seeing it start to take place in a market just north of us. What is it you ask? The drive time it takes to get to customers from the mill cannot exceed more than half the work day, truck drivers by law can only be on the road for a select amount of hours per day, so how can a supplier near the pan handle cater to customers below the Skyway bridge or near Orlando? They simply cannot do this efficiently and without passing the costs onto the customer. We maintain a fleet of newer diesel trucks that unfortunately only get single digit fuel economy and have adhered to a very effective delivery schedule around the state of Florida. For those outside of our delivery area or those in need we can arrange lift gate service with UPS or FedEx delivery services for additional costs. We have also implemented most markets to having two different days a week for delivery service, but we do ask customers take an amount that will hold them for at least a 2 week time period.
Will the delivery truck of the future be a small electric vehicle? Only time will tell, but Stakemill plans on being your preferred supplier of today and of tomorrow.