The racks right here. What we have, this is our biggest impact we've had. The Z-racks right here. So we buy all the material roll or the material comes out of the [Inaudible] to thin the Z-racks. So they roll it, cut it to length for us, we weld it up, panel, and then we ship off to tire distribution centers.
We had gotten our storage in the racks business doing our distribution fee. So in order, what of these would be about 150 truckloads of racks, 30,000 racks. That --
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Thirty thousand. It makes us about two shifts, uh, about four to six months, depending on what other orders we have.
Oh, I see.
That totally went away around 2015. Our costs were, our costs were just unbearable. And --
So this gentleman has a now great company. He was in big trouble two years ago, and then I put on the tariffs and now he's going round the clock, making the racks, making the steel, making everything that he makes. Uh, and it's just amazing what's happened. That anybody can be complaining about tariffs. He just said, "I'd give you a big hug if the press wasn't out here", because the tariffs have really, uh, been a big, big difference.
It's been a game changer. We were competing with China. They had taken all of them. They were producing racks at $90 a piece. Our cost alone is 150. You've leveled it. The playing field's back.
So when I came in and did what we had to do to save all these businesses, uh, you [Inaudible] right?
We did. Our quotes, our orders, we're so busy now we're, we don't know what to do. My lead time now on an order is 36 weeks. We were at a point in time of our Ratch division. We were laying off, we were laying off workers. We were working one shift three days a week begging for work. Now we're, it's the exact, it's the exact opposite.
And he's turning work away.
We're turning work down, which is a position that, that nobody wants to be in, but it's the reality of what your tariffs have done.
[Inaudible] You've got thousands of businesses all over the country. The same.
All, yeah. All --
They were taking it away. They were ripping us off. Every country in the world was ripping us off. And to think that we have to beat before the Supreme Court on the thing like this. Here's a man virtually going out of business and now he's got a thriving business. Hiring people, can't get enough people and it's all because of tariffs.
I had Novartis come in yesterday, big drug company. They're building 11 factories, 11 drug plants for prescription drugs in the United States. I said, "Why are you doing that?" He said, "One reason, tariffs". And we have to be between the Supreme Court with China-centric people suing us, people from China, suing us. They're all China-centric, and people from outside of our country to get rid of tariffs.
And it's making our country rich and it's a disgrace. That we even have to talk about this up there.
It's striking.
That's like, that's like men playing in women's sports. It's like, uh, you know, the tariff is the greatest thing that's happened to this country. We're making a fortune. But more importantly, all of these factories are booming now and they were all dead.
Evident.
Alright, I hope you take it down. I hope you show 'em that we have to be seriously, that we have to be before the Supreme Court of the United States to justify tariffs which are making every one of these businesses thrive. And without of all these buildings are closed like they have been before I got here.
Thank you very much.