Philip;
Thanks for the info, I contacted Interstate Signs, & we dealt w/ Blake Yoder, a pretty stand up guy in my opinion - Interstate, has a pretty sweet deal, where if they fab your DOT signs, & you tell them what order you will be installing the signs, they have a really neat trailer that has your signs already loaded & in the order you specify, they bring you the trailer, you hook the trailer up to your truck & go to the first stop & remove old sig, pull new sign off of trailer & install, then proceede to next stop. No crating to remove & dispose of. You are allowed two weeks use of trailer for no charge, after that, they charge a fee. Like I said, the trailer pretty ingenious, reminds me of when we use to load stuff on board ships - stuff you need first is loaded last - stuff w/ least importance loaded first.
I had one sign company from the list here submit a bid, plus Interstate, I sent a request to Zumar, (quite a few requests) but recieved nothing back from them, & we had a few locals
submit bids also. I think we are done looking for quotes, as I found out we have submitted our bid, but I do not know if the Salesman is still looking for any other quotes. When I see the Salesman in charge of this project today, I will ask him, & post it to the board.
I greatly thank everyone for there support & help. Hopefully we will be awarded this project from the City of Austin, but who knows, as there was a tremendous amount of paperwork & other hoops that we had to jump thru & hurdle over. Only the good Lord knows, if we will be awarded the project.
Thanks Everyone.
Very Respectfully,
J. Gary Bodnar
Senior Designer
Lewis Sign
Buda, Texas
512-312-4555
gary@lewissign.com