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A HEATED, standing-room-only Fl session on manufacturer/distributor relations highlighted the best attended National Building Material Distributors Association convention in ten years.

More than 930 NBMDA members and guests visited the Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, La., for the 37th annual meeting. And for the first time, all exhibit booths were sold out.

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National Building Material Distributors Association's 37th annual meeting draws huge crowd, sold-out exhibit hall

Keith Rust elected new President. next year: Oct. 28-31, Nashville. Tn.

"lmproving Relations Between Distributors & Manufacturers: What's In It For You?," panelists Robert Bartels, Celotex; H.A. "Doc" Eckstein, Celotex; Richard Passaglia, Sequoia Supply; J. Hays Wimsatt, Wimsatt Brothers, and A. Richard Kasper, Amerhart, Ltd., zeroed in on current problems like product promotions and performance measurements.

Other topics were misconceptions about millwork, computer linkage, credit, inventory control, OSHA regulations, sales management, education and UPC product coding. Speakers included Vaughn Hayes, Lowe's; (ilyn Jones, Canfor Ltd.; D. Bruce Merrifield, and Judge Robert H. Bork.

New offrcers elected at the Oct. 29-Nov. I general assembly: president C. Keith Rust. Roland & Roland, pres.-elect Steve Ellinwood, Building Material Distributors. v.p. George Bryson, Aetna Plywood; treas. A. Richard Kasper, Amerhart, and directors, William A. Ellis,

Reico l)istributors; C'. Dana Foster, Building Products Corp.; Paul W. llylbert, Sequoia Supply, and William L. Axline, Stanley Door.

The next NBMDA meeting will be Oct. 28-31, 1989, at the Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tn.

Trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds and operating in interstate commerce will be required to pass a safety inspection basecl on federal standards at least annuallv under a new Transl.lortation Department rule.

Taking effect in November 1989, the regulation is designed to ensure that trucks that are not stopped for roadside inspection "unclergo at least one comprehensive inspection each year," explained James Burnley, transportation secretary.

Inspection requirements can be nret by a state authorized inspection. scll-inspection in states that do not have inspection programs. roadside inspection or inspection by a garage or similar commcrcial business.

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