John Muzii, Senior Product Sales Manager, answers: For our remarketing business there are three main things that we continually look at when we are evaluating the life of trailers - usage, maintenance history, and financial considerations. In fact, we often advise our Customers when its time to trade-up with newer trailers, or when acquiring quality used trailers may be a good option.

For our own GE fleet we also need to constantly evaluate our own asset portfolio of 135,000 trailers. As it turns out, many of the things we need to look at are also the same things our customers need to look at… so we are pretty good at giving advice.

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Congratulations to Andrew Mier of Swift Transportation in Phoenix, AZ who was selected from over 1,000 entries gathered in the trucking industry as grand prize winner of our 2005 Stay Ahead of the Game sweepstakes.

The grand prize includes a 4 day trip for two to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy this February - with air, hotel, hospitality and tickets to Olympic Games events.

"I have never won anything this exciting in my life and two being an athlete myself participating in marathon's, triathlon's and Ironman events," said Mier. "It will be awesome to see world class athletes participate in the various events. Thanks to GE this will be a trip of a lifetime and I am looking forward to it".

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