well Rick it is business, do not know if I would want to be stuck in a contract with one distributor, 3 or 4 would do better, as far as the thought that someone had about home depot or lowes, I really do not think they carry too many heavy duty construction materials, but trust me I travel from construction job to road job constantly in the good weather months, and they get their products from somewhere, and I have never seen a BlueLinx truck, even though there is a warehouse 5 miles from me.