Noticed more and more companies filing or getting ready to file bankruptcy protection - Have also noticed an increase in lawsuits by Unions against concrete pumping companies for failure to pay pension and healthcare benefits.   I would suggest if you work for a union company you should contact the union directly to see if the company you work for is paid up to date.   So the question is - are things improving?

I believe it is.  It's just a measure of how deep the hole is that we're trying to climb out of.  Compared to 2-3 years ago it's easily 50-75% better from my outlook.  And it is continuing to grow on a month to month, year over year perspective.  It's only baby steps but yes, it is getting better.  What the next two quarters bring will show if it is going to flatten or sustain the incremental growth.  The B/K's are more an indication of poor pricing to be competitive with other poor survival pricing.  I guess it's just a heck of a lot of fun to pump concrete because there doesn't seem to be a lot of posts about doing it with grand financial results.

To make a small fortune pumping concrete, you must first start with a large one.   

Down south it is slowing while everybody else was slow the last couple of years I stayed pretty busy its about half of last year.But I do small stuff anyway.

 It is to a point. But it will take as much as 10 years for some of these companys to buy new equipment so you had better take good care of what you run now. Its really hard to climb out of that hole. just wait and watch what happens.