ARTICLE: Spartan Buys Factories for Army Trucks, AP

Tom forwarded this commentary from a reader:

This is a company I have watched for over 10 years. I first found them when I was getting my Masters in a class to try to predict a 5 and 10 year investment outlook. Unfortunately, I never invested in them.

What Spartan does is make large truck type frames for fire trucks and motor homes (my interest back in the 90's was Boomers buying motor homes as they retire).

What we are seeing right now is a company rapidly expanding into the defense/peacekeeper market making the truck frames for bomb resistant trucks.

I think this fits your pattern of many new ways to make money from the SysAdmin role in old fashioned, hard, manufacturing industries.