My father decided that he was going to come up here and work. When Robert realized retirement was the better option, Jeff ended up negotiating a purchase agreement for the business and become sole owner of Jet Service. Fla. Blow spends a lot of time on the phone, but reserves a third of his work day for the plant. Average orders are in the ballpark of 22,000, though smaller orders of 500 to 2,500 are the company's bread and butter. Competitive bidding constitutes up to 70 percent of the workload, a marked change in the way the company does business compared to 20 years ago.
Most clients are in New England, heavily weighted toward Vermont.
Blow cites potential loss of quality control as the reason he runs just one shift. If it's not right, then the customer's not coming back. He took up go-cart racing two years ago. On the quarter-mile asphalt at Thunder Road we'll turn laps between 65 and 70 miles per hour. His three carts that compete in 16 Saturday events run by the Northeast Cart Club bare the Jet Service logo.