Like the title says I am working from home as if I have a full time job. I guess as a salesman it is a full time job that pays nothing until there is a sale. But since February their has been nothing. You see I sell commercial vehicles for a Ford/Lincoln dealer in the Tri-State area . 
But since all that has happened I have lost my draw salary (which I hated anyway) and now will only collect if some thing I sell is delivered.
Not a bad deal if the vehicles wanted are in stock, or can be factory ordered or swapped in. But these types of sales mean time waiting to get paid. Time lost by customer because they were not in stock or could not be found easily with the pool of dealers and upfitters. 
What should happen and what I need is a decent supply of vehicles in stock at the upfitters and on the ground configured correctly or close to their needs for the customers/prospects we are getting.
It is very hard to get a customer interested in doing business with you in the first place. But then to explain you have to either locate or factory order it makes it even harder on me and the customer as they always seem to wait to the last minute. Even when you have been talking for a while and you tell them don’t wait. If you plan out the purchases with my help we can have the vehicles around the time you are actually ready for them. But that requires a good track record and a level of confidence by the customer and the salesman making the pitch and explaining how things can be. You need to be telling the truth and be earnest that you are yes trying to get their business but also show them you care about the business and their needs. Once you get through and get the order then you have to put up and show you can do what you say if not more. 
like this rolling office /clinic I helped design and sold. Or for another customer I designed, pitched and sold this truck for their use to replace the original and now extinct E-series van and be able to still get in to the garages around town.
It was tough enough when I was able to go to their offices or meet someone in the dealership but now it is even more of a challenge. Gets really hard talking to a prospect with a mask on. I mean how do you show the right facial expressions? or how do you give that since of security that you’re a person they can deal with now and in the future? Mine is a business of relationships not someone buying on impulse or looking for cookie cutter family vehicle. I deal with people and businesses who need vehicles to get jobs done. 
Some times more than one and not all built or equipped the same. It is this that makes the job interesting and worth while too. Like I have said in the past I get quite a nice feeling when I see one of my vehicles on the road going to a job or parked somewhere with the technician out doing a job. I got him there and I got him in to the best or closest vehicle to accommodate his working environment. This why I get bummed sometimes when I cannot seem to get the help needed to get through to the prospects and or fulfill the needs of my current customers in a timely matter.
But like I always say I am 
(the one in the middle)Who is a car mechanic involved in with me, but alas he has moved down south and is supportive from afar right now. We still hope and pray he makes time a week here and there. 
this is the first tie I saw her. This is how she is right now.
Sad hiding from the public working on getting back in shape. Not wanting to face even the neighbors as they drive by. But this will soon change. I will keep you up to date as things get moving and new parts and upgrades are completed. Just need to come up with a nice personalized plate for her. Thinking about “f1nally”. Well like I always say Ford has the best saying and motto.
the car facing the worng way is my neighbor. I am standing now right in front of the house by my driveway where I was when it cracked and then fell. You cannot see it but across the street it started a hedge fire and burned it’s way into the street. It took Con-Ed about an hour to get the power off. This all happened at about 10:30 in the am. The rest of day no power and a great show of why we should be happy our police, Firefighters, Con-Ed, Verizon and Optimum are still on the job ready to act when needed. 
that were on the scene in driving and handling and performance. 
Let me tell you it is quite a thing to watch as they labored well in to the night and early morning to get a new pole in and everything hooked up and power restored. they had the power back about 12am. 
how many of you remember this type of car. It was one of my favorite cars to ride in. My mother was studying at Harlem Hospital school of nursing and by proxy I ended up with a whole lot of mothers. One of those mothers had one it had the rear window that went down and you know who was hanging out. (no car seats in the sixties and seventies). Fun times for me and my cousins. She was a student putting herself through school through the air force reserves. Something few minorities knew about back then. Sadly she past away at an early age from Cancer but some things you never forget.
this Ford Galaxy 500 my great grandmother brought home four different colors yelling up to the house on the 6th floor for everyone to look and decide which was best to get. Right after surviving an accident in a LTD which the steering knuckle collapsed and she went down Amsterdam Ave from 129thstreet to 125st street. She hit almost 6 cars and ended up with a full body cast on the her right side. Saying all the time I love ford and I love that LTD, never bought anything but a #Ford all her life. Then the age of the Station wagon came about and I can remember another time when we all got into my Uncle Joe’s wagon and he’d take all us kids crabbing or to the movies or a cotillion for 2 of my cousins. you had the preverbal don’t touch me your sitting on my hand move over I need room don’t lean on me. then you heard don’t let me have to turn this car around or don’t let me have to pull over. Again all you younger older people no car seats or seat belts for that matter. You sat if you could get in a lap driving down the road thinking hey I am cool. Of course as you got older the term shot gun became like playing tag or musical chairs to get the window seat in front or at one of the doors in the back.
then the Ford Torino from Starsky and Hutch was another one always thought this was a cool crime fighting machine and loved the sweaters they wore in the show.
the movie was about a cop named Bullitt played by the Late great Steve McQueen. Of course some of you may not know who he is but that’s okay. Cause the car speaks for it’s self. And lets us not forget okay this is the last one I promise but I feel The show that stars David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight and a 1986 Camaro called KITT(KNIGHT INDUSTRIES TWO THOUSAND). A TALKING INDESTRUCTIBLE AI CAR IS COOL FOLKS right!!!
Insite of a Commercial Sales and Fleet Manager in NYC TRI-STATE AREA 
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