How the 2024 election impacts business and family moves. “This is about the stupidest year I’ve seen."
By Megan Luther
South Dakota News Watch
MITCHELL, S.D. – It’s a rare sight to see Tim Allen in the wood-paneled office space just off of Mitchell’s Main Street. Sitting behind the counter on a Monday in October, he calls a customer.
“This is Tim with Tobin's. Guys should be there probably about 3:00, 3:30 to move the stuff out of the basement. Okay. Yep. Thank you. You bet. Bye.”
Allen, one of the owners of North American moving company Tobin Transfer, is usually on the road, driving cross-country with a semitrailer full of people’s possessions.
But this year is a presidential election year and without fail (2020 doesn’t count because of the pandemic), business slows down. His cross-country shipments are down 7% so far this year.
“This is about the stupidest year I’ve seen,” Allen says.
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