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MILLER INDUSTRIES INC /TN/ - Quarter Report: 2003 March (Form 10-Q)

Miller Industries, Inc. Quarterly Report

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 10-Q

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2003
Commission File No. 0-24298

MILLER INDUSTRIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Tennessee

62-1566286

(State or other jurisdiction of

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

incorporation or organization)

 

 

8503 Hilltop Drive

 

Ooltewah, Tennessee

37363

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:  (423)  238-4171

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

YES  X         NO __

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant's Common Stock, $.01 par value, as of April 30, 2003 was 9,341,436.

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INDEX

PART I.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Page Number

       
 

Item 1.

Financial Statements (Unaudited)

 
       
   

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets - March 31, 2003 and
December 31, 2002.


3

       
   

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

 
   

for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 and 2002

4

       
   

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

 
   

for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 and 2002

5

       
   

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

6

       
 

Item 2.

Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations


17

       
 

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

24

       

PART II.

OTHER INFORMATION

 
       
 

Item 1.

Legal Proceedings

25

       
 

Item 6.

Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

25

     

SIGNATURES

26

       
   

Certification:  Jeffrey I. Badgley

27

       
   

Certification:  J. Vincent Mish

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PART I.   FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1.     Financial Statements (Unaudited)

MILLER INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except share data)

(Unaudited)

   

March 31,
2003

 

December 31,
2002

ASSETS

       
         

CURRENT ASSETS:

       

             Cash and temporary investments

 

$

4,133 

 

$

2,097 

             Accounts receivable, net

 

39,144 

 

46,616 

             Inventories, net

 

32,958 

 

27,815 

             Prepaid expenses and other

 

2,493 

 

748 

             Current assets of discontinued operations held for sale

 

29,958 

 

32,366 

                                                Total current assets

 

108,686 

 

109,642 

PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT, net

 

22,424 

 

23,121 

GOODWILL, net

 

11,619 

 

11,619 

OTHER ASSETS, net

 

2,167 

 

2,378 

NONCURRENT ASSETS OF DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS Held for sale

 

13,821 

 

15,417 

   

$

158,717 

 

$

162,177 

         

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

       

CURRENT LIABILITIES:

       

             Current portion of long-term obligations

 

$

37,727 

 

$

35,244 

             Accounts payable

 

26,501 

 

25,213 

             Accrued liabilities and other

 

6,118 

 

6,147 

             Current liabilities of discontinued operations held for sale

 

46,060

 

53,212 

         

                                                Total current liabilities

 

116,406 

 

119,816 

         

LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS, less current portion

 

864 

 

1,214 

NONCURRENT LIABILITIES OF DISCONTINUED
          OPERATIONS HELD FOR SALE

 

1,372 

 

1,450 

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Notes 8, 9 and 11)

       

SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY:

       

             Preferred stock, $.01 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized, none issued or
                        outstanding

 


 


             Common stock, $.01 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized,
             9,341,436 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2003 and
             December 31, 2002, respectively

 



93 

 



93 

             Additional paid-in capital

 

145,088 

 

145,088 

             Accumulated deficit

 

(104,349)

 

(103,790)

             Accumulated other comprehensive loss

 

(757)

 

(1,694)

                                                Total shareholders’ equity

 

40,075

 

39,697 

   

$

158,717 

 

$

162,177 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated balance sheets.

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MILLER INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)

 

Three Months Ended
March 31,

 

2003

 

2002

       

NET SALES

$

40,742 

 

$

47,805 
       

COSTS AND EXPENSES:

     

Costs of operations

34,815 

 

40,911 

        Selling, general and administrative expenses

3,882 

 

4,206 

        Interest expense, net

754 

 

700 

        Total costs and expenses

39,451 

 

45,817 

       

INCOME FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS BEFORE
          INCOME TAXES


1,291 

 


1,988 

INCOME TAX PROVISION (BENEFIT)

333 

 

764 

INCOME (LOSS) FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS

958 

 

1,224 

       

DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS:

     

         (Loss) from discontinued operations, before taxes

(1,942)

 

(1,959)

         Income tax provision (benefit)

(425)

 

(500)

         (Loss) from discontinued operations

(1,517)

 

(1,459)

       

NET LOSS BEFORE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF CHANGE IN
          ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE:


(559)

 


(235)

                    Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

(21,812)

NET LOSS

$

(559)

 

$

(22,047)

       

BASIC INCOME (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE:

     

         Income from continuing operations

$

0.10 

 

$

0.12 

         Loss from discontinued operations

(0.16)

 

(0.16)

         Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

(2.34)

         Basic income (loss) per common share

$

(0.06)

  $

(2.36)

       

DILUTED INCOME (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE:

     

         Income from continuing operations

$

0.10 

 

$

0.12 

         Loss from discontinued operations

(0.16)

 

(0.16)

         Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

(2.34)

         Diluted income (loss) per common share

$

(0.06)

 

$

(2.36)

       

WEIGHTED AVERAGE SHARES OUTSTANDING:

     

         Basic

9,341 

 

9,341 

         Diluted

9,349 

 

9,341 

 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated statements. 

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MILLER INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(Unaudited)

   

Three Months Ended
March 31,

   

2003

 

2002

OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

       

     Net loss

$

(559)

$

(22,047)

     Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:

       
         

                    Loss from discontinued operations

 

1,517 

 

1,459 

                    Depreciation and amortization

 

1,258 

 

1,135 

                    Provision for doubtful accounts

 

49 

 

63 

                    Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

 

 

21,812 

                    (Gain) Loss on disposals of property, plant, and equipment

 

39 

 

(1)

                    Other

 

(38)

 

95 

                    Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

       

                              Accounts receivable

 

6,965 

 

1,377 

                              Inventories

 

(4,772)

 

(6,214)

                              Prepaid expenses and other

 

(1,694)

 

(1,552)

                              Other assets

 

(13)

 

                              Accounts payable

 

975 

 

4,552 

                              Accrued liabilities and other

 

(231)

 

1,372 

                    Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations

 

3,496 

 

2,058 

                    Net cash used in operating activities from discontinued operations

 

(3,317)

 

(881)

                    Net cash provided by operating activities

 

179 

 

1,177 

         

INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

       

     Purchases of property, plant, and equipment

 

(102)

 

(189)

     Proceeds from sale of property, plant, and equipment

 

39 

 

     Payments received on notes receivables

 

732 

 

47 

     Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities from continuing operations

 

669 

 

(136)

     Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities from discontinued operations

 

1,832 

 

(253)

     Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

2,501 

 

(389)

         

FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

       

     Net borrowings under senior credit facility

 

2,780 

 

963 

     Payments on long-term obligations

 

(699)

 

(933)

     Additions to deferred financing costs

 

(135)

 

(177)

     Termination of interest rate swap

 

 

(341)

     Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities from continuing operations

 

1,946 

 

(488)

     Net cash used in financing activities from discontinued operations

 

(3,318)

 

(3,679)

     Net cash used in financing activities

 

(1,372)

 

(4,167)

         

EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE CHANGES ON CASH AND TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS

 

667

 

(78)

NET CHANGE IN CASH AND TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS

 

1,975

 

(3,457)

CASH AND TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS, beginning of period

 

2,097

 

9,863 

CASH AND TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS-DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS,
          beginning of period

 

1,752 

 

-- 

CASH AND TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS-DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS, end of period

 

1,691 

 

-- 

CASH AND TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS, end of period

 

4,133 

6,406 

         

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

       

     Cash payments for interest

 $

1,193 

 $

1,778 

         

Cash payments for income taxes

 $

201 

$

240 

         

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated statements.

 

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MILLER INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)

1.          Basis of Presentation

The condensed consolidated financial statements of Miller Industries, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") included herein have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations.  Nevertheless, the Company believes that the disclosures are adequate to make the financial information presented not misleading.  In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are of a normal recurring nature, to present fairly the Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flows at the dates and for the periods presented.  Cost of goods sold for interim periods for certain entities in the towing and recovery equipment segment is determined based on estimated gross profit rates.  Interim results of operations are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the fiscal year.  These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002.

2.          Going Concern

The towing and recovery equipment manufacturing and towing services industries are highly competitive. Certain competitors may have substantially greater financial and other resources than the Company. These industries are also subject to a number of external influences, such as general economic conditions, interest rate levels, consumer confidence, and general credit availability. Demand for the Company's equipment has been negatively impacted by cost pressures facing its customers. Continuation of these pressures could impact the Company's ability to service its debt.

At December 31, 2002 the Company’s financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the settlement of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.  As more fully described below, subsequent to December 31, 2002, the Company was in default of certain covenants under its senior (“Senior Credit Facility”) and subordinated (“Junior Credit Facility”) credit facility agreements, and its subordinated credit facility matures on July 23, 2003.  The senior and subordinated credit facility agreements contain certain cross-default provisions and provide for acceleration of amounts due as well as other remedies in the event of default.  These circumstances raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. 

The Junior Credit Facility matures on July 23, 2003, under which $13.8 million was outstanding March 31, 2003.  There is no assurance that the Company will be able to repay or refinance the outstanding principal and interest under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date thereof.  If the Company fails to repay all outstanding principal, interest and any other amounts due and owing under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date, such failure will constitute an event of default under the Junior Credit Facility and will also trigger an event of default under the Senior Credit Facility cross-default provisions.  A total of $42.0 million (continuing and discontinuing operations) was outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility at March 31, 2003.  In such case, the junior lender agent would be prevented from taking any enforcement action against the Company, its subsidiaries or their respective assets in respect of such event of default until the earlier of:  (i) the date which is 120 days (subject to extension to 270 days by notice from senior lender agent to junior lender agent) after the date upon which the junior lender agent gives notice of enforcement to the senior lender agent pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement; (ii) the acceleration of the maturity of the obligations of the Company under the Senior Credit Facility by the senior lender agent, and (iii) the commencement of any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding against the Company or certain of its subsidiaries.  The resulting event of default under the Senior Credit Facility if the Company does not repay all of the obligations under the Junior Credit Facility could result in the acceleration of the amounts due under the Senior Credit Facility as well as other remedies if not waived by the senior lenders.   There is no assurance that the Company will be able to obtain such a waiver from the senior lenders or a waiver from the junior lenders of any event of default that would occur as a result of the failure by the Company to repay or refinance the outstanding principal and interest under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date.

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Subsequent to December 31, 2002, the Company was in default under certain covenants under its Senior and Junior Credit Facility agreements.  While the Company has on several occasions negotiated amendments to its credit facilities that waived certain defaults and brought the Company back into compliance, waivers typically require payment of substantial additional fees, and there can be no assurance that the lenders will agree to any future waivers or amendments.  The Company’s bank facilities are collaterized by liens on all of the Company’s assets.  The liens give the lenders the right to foreclose on the assets of the Company under certain defined events of default and such foreclosure could allow the lenders to gain control of the operations of the Company. 

On September 13, 2002, the Company entered into the Third Amendment to Credit Agreement in connection with its Senior Credit Facility. Pursuant to the Third Amendment, the amount of the mandatory periodic reductions in the RoadOne revolving loan commitment amount, as established in the April 15, 2002 Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, were increased by amounts calculated based on updated asset appraisals completed in September 2002. Consequently, the Company will need to repay outstanding loans and permanently reduce the RoadOne loan commitment under its Senior Credit Facility over the life of the loan and prior to the maturity date. Pursuant to the terms of the Second and Third Amendments, the failure by the Company to repay outstanding loans and to reduce the RoadOne revolving loan commitment by the amounts and the times required pursuant to these amendments will result in increased interest rates on the senior loans and/or the occurrence of an event of default under the senior credit agreement.

In addition, pursuant to the Third Amendment, the amount of availability that can be generated for used inventory considered as eligible inventory for collateral purposes was limited to $4.3 million (subject to downward adjustments upon certain sales of sales of assets and stock by the Company and certain of its subsidiaries) through February 28, 2003 and reduced to $0 thereafter. The Sixth Amendment (discussed below 2003 Amendments) lowered the $4.3 million limit and eliminated the further requirement for reduction to $0 after February 28, 2003.

On November 14, 2002, the Company entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Credit Facility, which granted waivers from the Senior Lenders of violations of certain financial covenants for the quarter ended September 2002. There were no violations under the Junior Credit Facility. The Amendment also reduced the level of certain financial covenants for future periods, basing them strictly on the results of the towing and recovery equipment segment for those periods. In addition, the amendment revised the Road One revolving commitment amount based on the plan to sell all remaining towing service operations, reducing the commitment amount to $15.0 million at November 30, 2002, $12.0 million at December 31, 2002, $9.0 million at January 31, 2003, $6.0 million at February 28, 2003 and reducing to zero as of March 31, 2003.

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On February 28, 2003, the Company entered into the Fifth Amendment to the Credit Agreement. Pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, the date upon which the amount of certain used inventory taken in trade for collateral purposes is reduced to $-0- was extended from February 28, 2003 to March 31, 2003. In addition, the Fifth Amendment revised the RoadOne revolving commitment reducing the amount to $9.0 million at February 28, 2003 and $-0- as of March 31, 2003.

On April 1, 2003, the Company entered into the Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement.   The Sixth Amendment among other things, revised the RoadOne revolving commitment, extending by one year the time for the reduction thereof to $-0- from March 31, 2003 to March 31, 2004.  The amount of availability that can be generated for used inventory considered as eligible inventory for collateral purposes was reduced to $2.7 million with no further required reductions. 

Meeting the new repayment schedule will require that the Company sell its remaining towing services businesses according to its contemplated schedule on acceptable terms. While the Company believes its timetable for sales is achievable, there can be no assurance that the schedule can be met. Failure to achieve the Company's timetable for such sales or cash flow projections could result in failure to comply with the amended debt service requirements. Such non-compliance would result in an event of default, which if not waived by the lending groups, would result in the acceleration of the amounts due under the credit facility as well as other remedies. In such case, the Company would seek to refinance the remaining balances, but there is no assurance that the Company would be able to obtain any such refinancing. If the Company were unable to refinance the credit facility on acceptable terms or find an alternative source of repayment for the credit facility, the Company's business and financial condition would be materially and adversely affected.

Prior to making the determination to sell all of its remaining towing services operations, the Company had focused on cost reduction and expense control, as well as other opportunities for improving operating cash flows to improve liquidity. The Company had also disposed of certain underperforming RoadOne assets and operations in order to improve liquidity and to reduce expenses and debt. As described in Note 3, in October 2002, the Company decided to sell all remaining towing services operations.  During 2002, the Company sold 39 towing services locations for proceeds of $23.5 million, which have been used to reduce the RoadOne revolver.  The Company also made the decision in the fourth quarter of 2002 to divest of the operations of the distribution group of the towing and recovery equipment segment.  The Company may also be subject to inefficiencies, management distractions, additional expenses and uncertainties resulting from the rapid wind down of the infrastructure that was developed to provide support to the over 100 towing services locations and nine distribution locations.  Administrative services such as insurance and surety bond coverage must be maintained for all remaining Company operations, but such services could become more expensive to maintain as the size of the remaining operations decrease.  Although the Company believes that it can manage the wind down effectively, there can be no assurance that such will be the case.  Even if the Company is able to manage the wind down effectively, it may nevertheless have an adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations.

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In addition, the Company has experienced difficulty in maintaining its insurance and surety bond coverage primarily as a result of disruption in these markets resulting from the events of September 11th, 2001, general economic conditions and the Company’s operating results.  Prospective purchasers of towing services and distribution businesses have also experienced these difficulties, which could have an adverse impact on the ability of such purchasers to affect business acquisitions at prices satisfactory to the Company.

The Company received a tax refund of approximately $4.2 million during the quarter ended June 30, 2002, which was used to reduce the RoadOne revolver and cured the over-advance position that existed at that time.  An additional tax refund of $4.6 million was received during the quarter ended September 30, 2002, with proceeds used to further reduce the borrowings under the RoadOne revolver. 

3.          Discontinued Operations

During the fourth quarter of the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company’s management and board of directors made the decision to divest of its remaining towing services segment, as well as the operations of the distribution group of the towing and recovery equipment segment. 

During the quarter ended March 31, 2003, the Company disposed of assets in six markets underperforming towing service markets, as well as assets in other markets of its towing services segment.  Total proceeds from the sales were $1.7 million which included $1.5 million in cash and $0.2 million in notes receivable.  Losses on the sales of discontinued operations were $1.0 million.  

During the quarter ended March 31, 2003, the Company sold one distributor location with total proceeds of approximately $1.9 million in cash and $0.8 million subordinated notes receivable.  The Company had entered into agreements for the disposition of two of the eight remaining locations of the distribution group. 

In accordance with SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets”, the assets for the towing services segment and the distribution group are considered a “disposal group” and are no longer being depreciated.  All assets and liabilities and results of operations associated with these assets have been separately presented in the accompanying financial statements at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002.  The statements of operations and related financial statement disclosures for all prior years have been restated to present the towing services segment and the distribution group as discontinued operations separate from continuing operations.  Results of operations for the towing services segment and the distribution group reflect interest expense for debt directly attributing to these businesses, as well as an allocation of corporate debt based on intercompany balances.

The operating results for the discontinued operations of the towing services segment and the distributor group for the quarters ended March 31, 2003 and 2002, were as follows (in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended
March 31, 2003

 

Three Months Ended
March 31, 2002

 

Dist.

 

Towing

 

Total

 

Dist.

 

Towing

 

Total

                       

Net Sales

$16,615 

 

$11,419 

 

$28,034 

 

$22,497 

 

$34,029 

 

$56,526 

                       

Operating income (loss)

(34)

 

(959)

 

(993)

 

(140)

 

(419)

 

(559)

                       

Loss from discontinued operations

(775)

 

(742)

 

(1,517)

 

(888)

 

(571)

 

(1,459)

            The following assets and liabilities are reclassified as held for sale at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 (in thousands):

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  March 31, 2003   December 31, 2002
 

Dist.

 

Towing

 

Total

 

Dist.

 

Towing

 

Total

Cash and temporary investments

$

1,355

 

$

336  

$

1,691  

1,443  

$

309

 

$  

1,752
   

 

 

               

Accounts receivable, net

5,212

 

3,846

 

9,058

 

2,604

 

4,894

 

7,498

 

 

 

                 

Inventories

15,223

 

--

 

15,223

 

19,559

 

--

 

19,559

                       

Prepaid expenses and other current
assets

486

 

3,500

 

3,986

 

170

 

3,387

 

3,557

 

  

                   

Current assets of discontinued
operations held for sale

22,276

 

7,682

 

29,958

 

23,776

 

8,590

 

32,366

 

 

                   

Property, plant and equipment

--

 

11,893

 

11,893

 

--

 

13,368

 

13,368

 

 

                   

Other long-term assets

--

 

1,928

 

1,928

 

        --

 

2,049

 

2,049

 

 

                   

Noncurrent assets of discontinued
operations held for sale

--

 

13,821

 

13,821

 

           --

 

15,417

 

15,417

 

 

                   

Current portion of long-term debt

11,735

 

9,142

 

20,877

 

12,632

 

11,484

 

24,116

 

 

                   

Accounts payable

3,407

 

8,160

 

11,567

 

5,710

 

7,841

 

13,551

 

 

                   

Accrued liabilities and other


4,019

 


9,597

 


13,616

 

4,169

 

11,376

 

15,545

 

 

                   

Current liabilities of discontinued
operations held for sale

19,161

 

26,899

 

46,060

 

22,511

 

30,701

 

53,212

 

 

                   

Long-term debt

--

 

1,372

 

1,372

 

       --

 

1,450

 

1,450

 

 

                 

Noncurrent liabilities of discontinued
operations held for sale

$

 --  

$

1,372  

$

1,372  

$

        --  

1,450  

$   

1,450

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4.          Net Income (Loss) Per Share

Basic net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding.  Diluted net income (loss) per share is calculated by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common and potential dilutive common shares outstanding.  Diluted net income per share takes into consideration the assumed conversion of outstanding stock options resulting in 8,000 and 100 potential dilutive common shares for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.

5.          Inventories

Inventory costs include materials, labor and factory overhead.  Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market, determined on a first-in, first-out basis.

Inventories for continuing operations at March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 consisted of the following (in thousands):

   

March 31,
2003

 

December 31,
2002

         

Chassis

 $

3,269

$

1,316

Raw Materials

 

11,793

 

10,993

Work in process

 

7,812

 

7,746

Finished goods

 

10,084

 

7,760

 

$

32,958

$

27,815

6.          Special Charges and Other Expenses

The Company periodically reviews the carrying amount of the long-lived assets and goodwill in both its towing services and towing equipment businesses to determine if those assets may be recoverable based upon the future operating cash flows expected to be generated by those assets.  As a result of such review during the year ended December 31, 2002 and eight months ended December 31, 2001, the Company concluded that the carrying value of such assets in certain towing services markets and certain assets within the Company’s towing and recovery equipment segment were not fully recoverable.

Impairment charges of $10,778,000 were recorded in the eight months ended December 31, 2001 to write-down the goodwill in certain towing services markets to their estimated fair value.  Additionally, charges of $1,553,000 and $2,644,000 were recorded for the year ended December 31, 2002 and the eight months ended December 31, 2001 to write-down the carrying value of certain fixed assets (primarily property and equipment) in related markets to estimated fair value.  The Company determined fair value for these assets on a market by market basis taking into consideration various factors affecting the valuation in each market.

The Company also reviewed the carrying values of goodwill associated with certain investments within its towing and recovery equipment segment.  This evaluation indicated that the recorded amounts of goodwill for certain of these investments were not fully recoverable.  Impairment charges of $1,480,000 were recorded to reduce the carrying amount of goodwill to estimated fair value at December 31, 2001.  The Company recorded $1,637,000 and $1,770,000 of additional costs related to the write-down of the carrying value of other long-lived assets of its towing and recovery equipment segment for the year ended December 31, 2002 and the eight months ended December 31, 2001.

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7.          Goodwill and Other Long-Lived Assets

In June 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141, “Business Combinations” and SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets” (collectively the “Standards”).  The Standards were effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2001.  Companies with fiscal years beginning after March 15, 2001 could early adopt, but only as of the beginning of that fiscal year and only if all existing goodwill was evaluated for impairment by the end of that fiscal year.  SFAS No. 141 requires companies to recognize acquired identifiable intangible assets separately from goodwill if control over the future economic benefits of the asset results from contractual or other legal rights or the intangible asset is capable of being separated or divided and sold, transferred, licensed, rented, or exchanged.  The Standards require the value of a separately identifiable intangible asset meeting any of the criteria to be measured at its fair value.  SFAS No. 142 requires that goodwill not be amortized and that amounts recorded as goodwill be tested for impairment.  Annual impairment tests have to be performed at the lowest level of an entity that is a business and that can be distinguished, physically and operationally and for internal reporting purposes, from the other activities, operations, and assets of the entity.

Upon adoption of SFAS No. 142 in January 2002, the Company ceased to amortize goodwill.  In lieu of amortization, the Company is required to perform an initial impairment review of goodwill in 2002 and an annual impairment review thereafter.  As a result of impairment reviews, the Company wrote-off goodwill of $2,886,000 in the towing equipment segment and $18,926,000 in the towing services segment during the three months ended March 31, 2002.  The write-off has been accounted for as a cumulative effect of change in accounting principle to reflect application of the new accounting standards.

8.          Long-Term Obligations

2001 Credit Facility

In July 2001, the Company entered into a new four year senior credit facility (the "Senior Credit Facility") with a syndicate of lenders to replace the existing credit facility. As part of this agreement, the previous credit facility was reduced with proceeds from the Senior Credit Facility and amended to provide for a $14.0 million subordinated secured facility. The Senior Credit Facility originally consisted of an aggregate $102.0 million revolving credit facility and an $8.0 million term loan. The revolving credit facility provides for separate and distinct loan commitment levels for the Company's towing and recovery equipment segment and RoadOne segment, respectively. At March 31, 2003, $31.9 million and $7.6 million, respectively were outstanding under the towing and recovery equipment segment and RoadOne portions of the revolving credit facility. In addition, $2.5 million was outstanding under the senior term loan, and $13.8 million was outstanding under the subordinated secured facility.

Availability under the revolving Senior Credit Facility is based on a formula of eligible accounts receivable, inventory and fleet vehicles as separately calculated for the towing and recovery equipment segment and the RoadOne segment, respectively.  Borrowings under the term loan are collateralized by the Company's property, plant, and equipment.  The Company is required to make monthly amortization payments on the term loan of $167,000.  The Senior Credit Facility bears interest at the option of the Company at either the rate of LIBOR plus 2.75% or prime rate (as defined) plus 0.75% on the revolving portion and LIBOR plus 3.0% or prime rate (as defined) plus 1.0% on the term portion.

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The Senior Credit Facility matures in July 2005 and is collateralized by substantially all the assets of the Company. The Senior Credit Facility contains requirements relating to maintaining minimum excess availability at all times and minimum quarterly levels of earnings before income taxes, depreciation and amortization (as defined) and a minimum quarterly fixed charge coverage ratio (as defined). In addition, the Senior Credit Facility contains restrictions on capital expenditures, incurrence of indebtedness, mergers and acquisitions, distributions and transfers and sales of assets. The Senior Credit Facility also contains requirements related to weekly and monthly collateral reporting.

The subordinated credit facility (“Junior Credit Facility”) is by its terms expressly subordinated only to the Senior Credit Facility. The subordinated secured facility matures on July 23, 2003 and bears interest at 6.0% over the prime rate. The Company is required to make quarterly amortization payments on the Junior Credit Facility of $875,000 beginning not later than May 2002 provided that certain conditions are met, including satisfying a fixed charge coverage ratio test and a minimum availability limit. The Junior Credit Facility is collateralized by certain specified assets of the Company and by a second priority lien and security interest in substantially all other assets of the Company. The Junior Credit Facility contains requirements for certain fees to be paid at six month intervals beginning in January 2002 based on the outstanding balance of the subordinated secured facility at the time. The Junior Credit Facility also contains provisions for the issuance of warrants for up to 0.5% of the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock in July 2002 and up to an additional 1.5% in July, 2003. The number of warrants which may be issued would be reduced pro rata as the balance of the Junior Credit Facility is reduced.  On July 23, 2002, the Company issued 47,417 warrants for the purchase of common stock in conjunction with these related provisions.

The Junior Credit Facility contains, among other restrictions, requirements for the maintenance of certain financial covenants and imposes restrictions on capital expenditures, incurrence of indebtedness, mergers and acquisitions, distributions and transfers and sales of assets.

There is no assurance that the Company will be able to repay or refinance the outstanding principal and interest under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date thereof.  If the Company fails to repay all outstanding principal, interest and any other amounts due and owing under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date, such failure will constitute an event of default under the Junior Credit Facility and will also trigger an event of default under the Senior Credit Facility cross-default provisions.  In such case, the junior lender agent would be prevented from taking any enforcement action against the Company, its subsidiaries or their respective assets in respect of such event of default until the earlier of: (i) the date which is 120 days (subject to extension to 270 days by notice from senior lender agent to junior lender agent) after the date upon which the junior lender agent gives notice of enforcement to the senior lender agent pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement; (ii) the acceleration of the maturity of the obligations of the Company under the Senior Credit Facility by the senior lender agent, and (ii) the commencement of any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding against the Company or certain of its subsidiaries.  The resulting event of default under the Senior Credit Facility if the Company does not repay all of the obligations under the Junior Credit Facility could result in the acceleration of the amounts due under the Senior Credit Facility as well as other remedies if not waived by the senior lenders.  There is no assurance that the Company will be able to obtain such a waiver from the senior lenders or a waiver from the junior lenders of any event of default that would occur as a result of the failure by the Company to repay or refinance the outstanding principal and interest under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date.

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2002 Amendments

The Company was in an over-advance position under its credit facility during the first quarter of 2002. On February 28, 2002 the Company entered into a Forbearance Agreement and First Amendment to its Senior Credit Agreement with the lenders under the Senior Credit Facility, as amended by that certain Amendment to Forbearance Agreement dated as of March 18, 2002 and that certain Second Amendment to the Forbearance Agreement dated as of March 29, 2002 (as so amended, the "Forbearance Agreement"). As a result of a revised asset appraisal conducted by the senior lenders, the senior lenders determined that the amounts outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility should be lowered below the amount then outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility, causing the Company to be over-advanced on its line of credit which resulted in the occurrence of an event of default under the Senior Credit Facility and a corresponding event of default under the Junior Credit Facility. The Forbearance Agreement and subsequent amendments waived the Company's overadvance under the Senior Credit Facility and amended the terms of the credit agreement to, among other things, (i) permanently reduce the commitment levels to $42.0 million for the towing and recovery equipment segment and $36.0 million for the RoadOne segment portion of the revolving credit facility and $6,611,000 for the term loan facility, (ii) eliminate the Company's ability to borrow funds at a LIBOR rate of interest, and (iii) increase the interest rate to a floating rate of interest equal to the prime rate plus 2.75%.

On April 15, 2002 the Company amended the Senior Credit Facility, pursuant to which, among other things: (i) the senior lenders waived the overadvance event of default and other events of default, (ii) interest on advances will be charged at the prime rate (as defined) plus 2.75% on the revolving portion and the term portion, subject to substantial upward adjustments in the interest rate on and after certain specified dates based on the amounts outstanding under the revolving loan commitment relating to RoadOne (escalating at generally quarterly intervals from prime plus 4.50% as of October 1, 2002 to prime plus 14.00% as of April 1, 2005) and (iii) the revolving loan commitment amount relating to RoadOne is subject to mandatory reductions over time commencing August 12, 2002, which reductions will require a mandatory repayment of portions of outstanding loans at specified dates and the failure to timely make such repayments shall result in an event of default under the bank credit agreements. The RoadOne revolving commitment amount, which was set at $36.0 million through the April 15, 2002 amendment, is scheduled to be reduced as follows: August 12, 2002- to $34.0 million; October 2, 2002 - to $30.0 million; March 31, 2003 - to $27.0 million; thereafter- quarterly reductions of $3.0 million through June 30, 2005. On April 15, 2002 the Company also amended the Junior Credit Facility, pursuant to which, among other things, (i) the junior lenders waived the events of default, and (ii) extended the time for payment of certain scheduled amortization payments. On April 15, 2002, the junior lender agent, the senior lender agent and the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement, pursuant to which, among other things, subject to certain terms and conditions, the junior lenders have agreed to defer the required payment of amortization payments under the Junior Credit Facility until November 20, 2002, April 5, 2003 and May 20, 2003.

On September 13, 2002, the Company entered into the Third Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility.  Pursuant to the Third Amendment, the amount of the mandatory periodic reductions in the RoadOne revolving loan commitment amount, as established in the April 15, 2002 Second Amendment to Senior Credit Agreement, were increased by amounts calculated based on updated asset appraisals completed in September 2002.  Consequently, the Company will need to repay outstanding loans and permanently reduce the RoadOne loan commitment under its Senior Credit Facility over the life of the loan and prior to the maturity date.  Pursuant to the terms of the Second and Third Amendments, the failure by the Company to repay outstanding loans and to reduce the RoadOne revolving loan commitment by the amounts and the times required pursuant to these amendments will result in increased interest rates on the senior loans and/or the occurrence of an event of default under the Senior Credit Facility.

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In addition, pursuant to the Third Amendment, the amount of availability that can be generated for used inventory considered as eligible inventory for collateral purposes was limited to $4.3 million (subject to downward adjustments upon certain sales of sales of assets and stock by the Company and certain of its subsidiaries) through February 28, 2003 and reduced to $0 thereafter.  The Sixth Amendment (discussed below 2003 Amendments) lowered the $4.3 million limit and eliminated the further requirement for reduction to $0 after February 28, 2003.

On November 14, 2002, the Company entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility, which granted waivers from the Senior Lenders of violations of certain financial covenants for the quarter ended September 2002. There were no violations under the Junior Credit Facility. The Amendment also reduced the level of certain financial covenants for future periods, basing them strictly on the results of the towing and recovery equipment segment for those periods. In addition, the amendment revised the Road One revolving commitment amount based on the plan to sell all remaining towing service operations, reducing the commitment amount to $15.0 million at November 30, 2002, $12.0 million at December 31, 2002, $9.0 million at January 31, 2003, $6.0 million at February 28, 2003 and reducing to zero as of March 31, 2003.

2003 Amendments

On February 28, 2003, the Company entered into the Fifth Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility.  Pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, the date upon which the amount of certain used inventory taken in trade for collateral purposes is reduced to $-0- was extended from February 28, 2003 to March 31, 2003.  In addition, the Fifth Amendment revised the RoadOne revolving commitment reducing the amount to $9.0 million at February 28, 2003 and $-0- as of March 31, 2003. 

On April 1,2003, the Company entered into the Sixth Amendment to Senior Credit Facility.  The Sixth Amendment, among other things, revised the RoadOne revolving commitment, extending by one year the time for the reduction thereof to $-0- from March 31, 2003 to March 31, 2004.  The amount of availability that can be generated for used inventory considered as eligible inventory for collateral purposes was reduced to $2.7 million with no further required reductions. 

Meeting the new repayment schedule for the RoadOne revolving commitments as described above under 2002 Amendments to Senior Credit Facility and 2003 Amendments to Senior Credit Facility will require that the Company sell its towing services businesses according to its contemplated schedule on acceptable terms. While the Company believes its timetable for sales is achievable, there can be no assurance that the schedule can be met.

Subsequent to April 1, 2003, the Company was in default under certain covenants under its Senior and Junior Credit Facility agreements.  Accordingly, amounts outstanding under these Facilities are presented as current liabilities in the accompanying December 31, 2002 and March 31, 2003 consolidated balance sheet.  Waivers of such covenants typically require payment of substantial additional fees, and there can be no assurance that the lenders will agree to any future waivers or amendments. The Company's bank facilities are collateralized by liens on all of the Company's assets. The liens give the lenders the right to foreclose on the assets of the Company under certain defined events of default and such foreclosure could allow the lenders to gain control of the operations of the Company.

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The Company could be required to find alternative funding sources, such as sale of assets or other financing sources. If the Company were unable to refinance the credit facility on acceptable terms or find an alternative source of repayment for the credit facility, the Company's business and financial condition would be materially and adversely affected. There is no assurance that the Company would be able to obtain any such refinancing or that it would be able to sell assets on terms that are acceptable to the Company or at all.

Prior to making the determination to sell all of its remaining towing services operations, the Company had focused on cost reduction and expense control, as well as other opportunities for improving operating cash flows, to improve liquidity. The Company has also disposed of certain underperforming RoadOne assets and operations in order to improve liquidity and to reduce expenses and debt. As described in Note 3, in October 2002, the Company decided to sell all remaining towing services operations. The Company received a tax refund of approximately $4.2 million during the quarter ended June 30, 2002, which also reduced the RoadOne revolver and cured the overadvance position that existed at that time. An additional tax refund of approximately $4.6 million was received during the quarter ended September 30, 2002, with proceeds used to further reduce the borrowings under the RoadOne revolver.

9.          Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities

 SFAS No. 133 "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities", establishes accounting and reporting standards requiring that every derivative instrument (including certain derivatives embedded in other contracts) be recorded in the balance sheet as either an asset or liability measured at its fair value. SFAS No. 133 requires that changes in the derivatives fair value be recognized currently in earnings unless specific hedge criteria are met.  Special accounting for qualifying hedges allows a derivative's gains and losses to offset related results on the hedged item on the income statement, and requires that the Company must formally document, designate, and assess the effectiveness of transactions that receive hedge accounting.

In October 2001, the Company obtained interest rate swaps as required by terms in its Credit Facility to hedge exposure to market fluctuations.  The interest rate swaps covered $40.0 million in notional amounts of variable rate debt and with fixed rates ranging from 2.535% to 3.920%.  The swaps expire annually from October 2002 to October 2004.  Because the Company hedges only with derivatives that have high correlation with the underlying transaction pricing, changes in derivatives fair values and the underlying pricing largely offset.  The hedges were deemed to be fully effective resulting in a pretax loss of $12,000 recorded in Other Comprehensive Loss at December 31, 2001.  Upon expiration of these hedges, the amount recorded in Other Comprehensive Loss will be reclassified into earnings as interest.  Subsequent to year end December 31, 2001, the borrowing base was converted from LIBOR to prime, which rendered the swap ineffective as a hedge.  Accordingly, concurrent with the conversion, the Company prematurely terminated the swap in February 2002 at a cost of $341,000.  The resulting loss was be recorded in Other Comprehensive Loss in February 2002 and reclassified to earning as interest expense over the term of the Senior Credit Facility.

As described in Note 8, the subordinated secured debt facility contains provisions for the issuance of warrants of up to 0.5% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock on July 2002 and up to an additional 1.5% in July 2003.  The warrants were valued as of July 2001 based on the estimated relative fair value using the Black Scholes model with the following assumptions:  risk-free rate of 4.9% estimated life of 7 years, 72% volatility and no dividend yield.  Accordingly, the Company has recorded a liability and makes periodic mark to market adjustments, which are reflected in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations in accordance with EITF Issue 00-19, “Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to, and Potentially Settled in, a Company’s Own Stock”.  At March 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002, the related liability was $359,000 and $362,000, respectively, and is included in accrued liabilities in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

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10.        Stock-Based Compensation

The Company accounts for its stock-based compensation plans under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees". The Company has adopted the disclosure option of SFAS No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation". Accordingly, no compensation cost has been recognized for stock option grants since the options have exercise prices equal to the market value of the common stock at the date of grant.  There were no grants in the three months ended March 31, 2003 or 2002.

Had compensation cost for stock option grants been determined based on the fair value at the grant dates consistent with the method prescribed by SFAS No. 123, the Company's net loss and net loss per share would have been adjusted to the pro forma amounts indicated below:

 

Three Months Ended

 

March 31, 2003

 

March 31, 2002

Net loss available to common stockholders, as reported

$  (559)        

 

$  (22,047)        

     Add:  Stock-based employee compensation expense
          included in reported net loss, net of related tax effects

--          

 

--          

     Deduct:  Total stock-based employee compensation
          expense determined under fair value based method for all
          awards, net of related tax effects

(82)        

 

(229)        

Net loss available to common stockholders, pro forma

$  (641)        

 

$  (22,276)        

Loss per common share:
     Basic and diluted, as reported
     Basic and diluted, pro forma

$ (0.06)        
$ (0.07)        

 

$ (2.36)        
$ (2.38)        

 

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11.        Commitments and Contingencies

The Company is, from time to time, a party to litigation arising in the normal course of its business. Litigation is subject to various inherent uncertainties, and it is possible that some of these matters could be resolved unfavorably to the Company, which could result in substantial damages against the Company. The Company has established accruals for matters that are probable and reasonably estimable and maintains product liability and other insurance that management believes to be adequate. Management believes that any liability that may ultimately result from the resolution of these matters in excess of available insurance coverage and accruals will not have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position or results of operations of the Company.

12.        Income Taxes

At December 31, 2002, the Company recorded a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax asset from continuing and discontinuing operations totaling approximately $18.0 million.

13.        Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In April 2002, the FASB issued SFAS No. 145, “Rescission of SFAS Nos. 4, 44, and 64, Amendment of SFAS No. 13, and Technical Corrections as of April 2002.” This Statement rescinds SFAS No. 4, “Reporting Gains and Losses from Extinguishment of Debt”, and an amendment of that Statement, SFAS No. 64, “Extinguishments of Debt Made to Satisfy Sinking-Fund Requirements”. This Statement also rescinds SFAS No. 44, “Accounting for Intangible Assets of Motor Carriers”. This Statement amends SFAS No. 13, “Accounting for Leases”, to eliminate an inconsistency between the required accounting for sale-leaseback transactions and the required accounting for certain lease modifications for sale-leaseback transaction and the required accounting for certain lease modifications that have economic effects that are similar to sale-leaseback transactions. SFAS No. 145 will be effective for fiscal 2003, which begins January 1, 2002. Management does not expect the adoption of this statement to have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations of financial position. 

FASB has issued SFAS No. 146, “Accounting for Exit or Disposal Activities”. SFAS No. 146 addresses the recognition, measurement, and reporting of costs that are associated with exit and disposal activities, including costs related to terminating a contract that is not a capital lease and termination benefits that employees who are involuntarily terminated receive under the terms of a one-time benefit arrangement that is not an ongoing benefit arrangement or an individual deferred-compensation contract. SFAS No. 146 supersedes Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 94-3, “Liability Recognition for Certain Employee Termination Benefits and Other Costs to Exit an Activity (including Certain Costs Incurred in a Restructuring)” and requires liabilities associated with exit and disposal activities to be expensed as incurred. SFAS No. 146 will be effective for exit or disposal activities of the Company that are initiated after December 31, 2002.

 

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Item 2.   Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

             Recent Developments

             Going Concern

The Company’s financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the settlement of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.  Subsequent to December 31, 2002, the Company was in default of certain covenants under its Senior and Junior Credit Facility Agreements, and its Junior Credit Facility matures on July 23, 2003.  The Senior and Junior Credit Facility Agreements contain certain cross-default provisions and provide for acceleration on amounts due as well as other remedies in the event of default.  These circumstances raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Discontinued Operations

During the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company’s management and its board of directors made the decision to divest of its remaining towing services segment, as well as the operations of the distribution group of the towing and recovery equipment segment. In accordance with SFAS No. 144, "Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets", the assets for the towing services segment and the distribution group are considered a "disposal group" and the assets are no longer being depreciated. All assets and liabilities and results of operations associated with these assets have been separately presented in the accompanying financial statements. The statements of operations and related financial statement disclosures for all prior years have been restated to present the towing services segment and the distribution group as discontinued operations separate from continuing operations. The analyses contained herein are of continuing operations, as restated, unless otherwise noted.

             Results of Operations--Three Months Ended March 31, 2003 Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2002

             Continuing Operations

Net sales for continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2003, decreased 14.8% to $40.7 million from $47.8 million for the comparable period in 2002.  Net sales decreased as demand for the Company’s towing and recovery equipment continued to be negatively impacted by the cost pressures facing its customers and the tightness of the current credit markets.  In addition, the war with Iraq during the quarter had a negative impact on sales.

Costs of operations for continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2003, decreased 14.9% to $34.8 from $40.9 million for the comparable period in 2002 reflecting the aforementioned decrease in sales.  Costs of operations decreased slightly as a percentage of net sales from 85.6% to 85.5%. 

Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2003, decreased to $3.9 million from $4.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002, reflecting the Company’s ongoing focus on operating cost control.

Net interest expense increased $0.1 million to $0.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 from $0.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 due to stable levels of debt and stable interest rates.

The provision for income taxes for continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2003 reflects a combined effective U.S. federal and state tax rate of 38%, net of a tax benefit related to the Company's foreign tax liability.  The provision for the three months ended March 31, 2002 reflects a similar effective U.S. federal and state rate plus additional taxes on foreign income for the period.

            Discontinued Operations

Net sales from discontinued operations decreased to $28.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 from $56.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002.  Net sales of the distribution group were $16.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 compared to $22.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002. Revenues for the distribution group were negatively impacted by cost pressures facing its customers and current tightness in the credit markets.  Net sales for the towing and recovery services segment were $11.4 million for the three months ended March 11, 2003 compared to $34.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002.  Revenues of the towing services segment were affected by the Company’s ongoing efforts to sell or close discontinued operations.

Cost of sales as a percentage of net sales for the distribution group was 93.5% for the three months ended March 31, 2003 compared to 92.2% for the three months ended March 31, 2002.  The increase is primarily the result of decreases in sales volume as explained above. Cost of sales for the towing services segment was 78.0% for the three months ended March 31, 2003 compared to 82.7% for the three months ended March 31, 2002.  Decreases result from the impact of the continuing disposal of towing services operations.

Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales was 6.7% for the distribution group and 21.7% for the towing services segment for the three months ended March 31, 2003 compared to 8.5% and 18.6% respectively, for the three months ended March 31, 2002.  The decrease for the distribution group reflects the Company’s ongoing focus on operating cost control.  Increases for the towing services segment were primarily the result of increased insurance costs for the remaining operations.

Net interest expense of discontinued operations decreased $0.4 million from $1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2002 to $1.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 as a result of decreased borrowings under the Company’s RoadOne revolving credit facility. 

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             Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash provided by operating activities was $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003, compared to $1.2 million for the comparable period of 2002.  The cash provided by operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2003 was primarily the result of an increase in accounts receivable and accounts payable, partially offset by an increase in inventories.

Cash provided by investing activities was $2.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003, compared to $0.3 million used in investing activities for the comparable period in 2002.  The cash provided by investing activities was primarily due to the sale of towing services operations.

Cash used in financing activities was $1.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2003 and $4.2 million for the comparable period in the prior year.  The cash was used primarily to reduce borrowings under Company's credit facilities and other outstanding long-term debt and capital lease obligations.

The Company’s primary capital requirements are for working capital, debt service, and capital expenditures.  Since 1996, the Company has financed its operations and growth from internally generated funds and debt financing.

 

 

 

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2001 Credit Facility

In July 2001, the Company entered into a new four year senior secured credit facility (the “Senior Credit Facility”) with a syndicate of lenders to replace the existing credit facility.  As a part of this agreement, the previous credit facility was reduced with proceeds from the Senior Credit Facility and amended to provide for a $14.0 million subordinated secured facility.  The Senior Credit Facility originally consisted of an aggregate $102.0 million revolving credit facility and an $8.0 million term loan.  On July 25, 2001, the Company borrowed $85.0 million under the new Senior Credit Facility ($77.0 million under the revolving credit facility and $8.0 million under the term loan).  Availability under the revolving Senior Credit Facility is based on a formula of eligible accounts receivable, inventory and fleet vehicles as separately calculated for the towing and recovery equipment segment and the RoadOne segment, respectively.  Borrowings under the term loan are collateralized by the Company’s property, plant, and equipment.  The Company is required to make monthly amortization payments on the term loan of $167,000.  The Senior Credit Facility bore interest at the option of the Company at either the rate of LIBOR plus 2.75% or prime rate (as defined) plus 0.75% on the revolving portion and LIBOR plus 3.00% or prime rate (as defined) plus 1.00% on the term portion.

The Senior Credit Facility matures in July, 2005 and is collateralized by substantially all the assets of the Company.  The Senior Credit Facility contains requirements related to maintaining minimum excess availability at all times and minimum quarterly levels of earnings before income taxes, depreciation and amortization (as defined) and a minimum quarterly fixed charge coverage ratio (as defined).  In addition, the Senior Credit Facility contains restrictions on capital expenditures, incurrence of indebtedness, mergers and acquisitions, distributions and transfers and sales of assets.  The Senior Credit Facility also contains requirements related to weekly and monthly collateral reporting.

The $14.0 million Junior Credit Facility is by its terms expressly subordinated only to the Senior Credit Facility.  The Junior Credit Facility, under which $13.8 million was outstanding at March 31, 2003, matures on July 23, 2003 and bears interest at 6.0% over the prime rate.  There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to repay or refinance the outstanding principal and interest under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date thereof.  If the Company fails to repay all outstanding principal, interest and any other amounts due and owing under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date, such failure will constitute an event of default under the Junior Credit Facility and will also trigger an event of default under the Senior Credit Facility cross-default provisions.  A total of $42.0 million (continuing and discontinued operations) was outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility at March 31, 2003.  In such case, the junior lender agent would be prevented from taking any enforcement action against the Company, its subsidiaries or their respective assets in respect of such event of default until the earlier of: (i) the date which is 120 days (subject to extension to 270 days by notice from senior lender agent to junior lender agent) after the date upon which the junior lender agent gives notice of enforcement to the senior lender agent pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement; (ii) the acceleration of the maturity of the obligations of the Company under the Senior Credit Facility by the senior lender agent, and (ii) the commencement of any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding against the Company or certain of its subsidiaries.  The resulting event of default under the Senior Credit Facility if the Company does not repay all of the obligations under the Junior Credit Facility could result in the acceleration of the amounts due under the Senior Credit Facility as well as other remedies if not waived by the senior lenders.  There is no assurance that the Company will be able to obtain such a waiver from the senior lenders or a waiver from the junior lenders of any event of default that would occur as a result of the failure by the Company to repay or refinance the outstanding principal and interest under the Junior Credit Facility on the maturity date.

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The Junior Credit Facility is secured by certain specified assets of the Company and by a second priority lien and security interest in substantially all other assets of the Company.  The Junior Credit Facility contains requirements for certain fees to be paid at six month intervals beginning in January, 2002 based on the outstanding balance of the facility at the time.  The Junior Credit Facility also contains provisions for the issuance of warrants for up to 0.5% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock in July, 2002 and up to an additional 1.5% on July 23, 2003 with an exercise price equal to the then fair market value of the Company’s common stock.  The number of warrants which may be issued would be reduced pro rata as the balance of the Junior Credit Facility is reduced.  On July 23, 2002, the Company issued 47,417 warrants for the purchase of common stock in conjunction with these related provisions.

The Junior Credit Facility contains requirements for the maintenance of certain financial covenants and imposes restrictions on capital expenditures, incurrence of indebtedness, mergers and acquisitions, distributions and transfers and sales of assets.

2002 Amendments to the Credit Facility

On February 28, 2002 the Company entered into a Forbearance Agreement and First Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility with the lenders under the Senior Credit Facility, as amended by that certain Amendment to Forbearance Agreement dated as of March 18, 2002 and that certain Second Amendment to the Forbearance Agreement dated as of March 29, 2002 (as so amended, the “Forbearance Agreement”).  As a result of a revised asset appraisal conducted by the senior lenders, the senior lenders determined that the amounts outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility should be lowered below the amount then outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility, causing the Company to be over-advanced on its line of credit which resulted in the occurrence of an event of default under the Senior Credit Facility and a corresponding event of default under the Junior Credit Facility.  The Forbearance Agreement and subsequent amendments waived the Company’s overadvance under the Senior Credit Facility and amended the terms of the credit agreement to, among other things, (i) permanently reduce the commitment levels to $42.0 million for the towing and recovery equipment segment and $36.0 million for the RoadOne segment portion of the revolving credit facility and $6,611,000 for the term loan facility, (ii) eliminate the Company’s ability to borrow funds at a LIBOR rate of interest, and (iii) increase the interest rate to a floating rate of interest equal to the prime rate plus 2.75%.

On April 15, 2002 the Company entered into the Second Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility, pursuant to which, among other things: (i) the senior lenders waived the overadvance event of default and other events of default, (ii) interest on advances will be charged at the prime rate (as defined) plus 2.75% on the revolving portion and the term portion, subject to substantial upward adjustments in the interest rate on and after certain specified dates based on the amounts outstanding under the revolving loan commitment relating to RoadOne (escalating at generally quarterly intervals from prime plus 4.50% as of October 1, 2002 to prime plus 14.00% as of April 1, 2005) and (iii) the revolving loan commitment amount relating to RoadOne is subject to mandatory reductions over time commencing August 12, 2002, which reductions will require a mandatory repayment of portions of outstanding loans at specified dates and the failure to timely make such repayments shall result in an event of default under the bank credit agreements.  The RoadOne revolving commitment amount, which was set at $36.0 million through the April 15, 2002 amendment was scheduled to be reduced as follows:  August 12, 2002 – to $34.0 million; October 2, 2002 – to $30.0 million; March 31, 2003 – to $27.0 million; thereafter – quarterly reductions of $3.0 million through June 30, 2005.  At the same time, the Company also amended the Junior Credit Facility, pursuant to which, among other things, (i) the junior lenders waived the events of default, and (ii) extended the time for payment of certain scheduled amortization payments.  On April 15, 2002, the junior lender agent, the senior lender agent and the Company entered into an Amended and Restated  Intercreditor and Subordination Agreement (the “Intercreditor Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, subject to certain terms and conditions, the junior lenders have agreed to defer the required payment of amortization payments under the Junior Credit Facility until November 20, 2002, April 5, 2003 and May 20, 2003. 

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On September 13, 2002, the Company entered into the Third Amendment to Credit Agreement in connection with its Senior Credit Facility.  Pursuant to the Third Amendment, the amount of the mandatory periodic reductions in the RoadOne revolving loan commitment amount, as established in the April 15, 2002 Second Amendment to Senior Credit Agreement, were increased by amounts calculated based on updated asset appraisals completed in September 2002.  Consequently, the Company will need to repay outstanding loans and permanently reduce the RoadOne loan commitment under its Senior Credit Facility over the life of the loan and prior to the maturity date.  Pursuant to the terms of the Second and Third Amendments, the failure by the Company to repay outstanding loans and to reduce the RoadOne revolving loan commitment by the amounts and the times required pursuant to these amendments will result in increased interest rates on the senior loans and/or the occurrence of an event of default under the senior credit agreement.

In addition, pursuant to the Third Amendment, the amount of availability that can be generated for used inventory considered as eligible inventory for collateral purposes was limited to $4.3 million (subject to downward adjustments upon certain sales of assets and stock by the Company and certain of its subsidiaries) through February 28, 2003 and reduced to $0 thereafter.  The Sixth Amendment (discussed below under 2003 Amendments) lowered the $4.3 million limit and eliminated the further requirement for reduction to $0after February 28, 2003.

On November 14, 2002, the Company entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility, which granted waivers from the senior lenders of violations of certain financial covenants for the quarter ended September 2002.  There were no violations under the Junior Credit facility.  The Amendment also reduced the level of certain financial covenants for future periods, basing them strictly on the results of the towing and recovery equipment segment for those periods.  In addition, the amendment revised the RoadOne revolving commitment amount based on the plan to sell all remaining towing service operations, reducing the commitment amount to $15.0 million at November 30, 2002, $12.0 million at December 31, 2002, $9.0 million at January 31, 2003, $6.0 million at February 28, 2003 and reducing to zero as of March 31, 2003.

2003 Amendments to Credit Facility

On February 28, 2003, the Company entered into the Fifth Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility.  Pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, the date upon which the amount of certain used inventory taken in trade for collateral purposes is reduced to $-0- was extended from February 28, 2003 to March 31, 2003.  In addition, the Fifth Amendment revised the RoadOne revolving commitment, reducing the amount to $9.0 million at February 28, 2003 and $-0- as of March 31, 2003.

On April 1,2003, the Company entered into the Sixth Amendment to the Senior Credit Facility.  The Sixth Amendment, among other things, revised the RoadOne revolving commitment, extending the time for the reduction thereof to $9.0 million from March 31, 2003 to March 31, 2004 and extending the time for reduction to $-0- from March 31, 2003 to March 31, 2004.  The amount of availability that can be generated for used inventory considered as eligible inventory for collateral purposes was reduced to $2.7 million with no further required reductions.  The Sixth Amendment also extended the time for required delivery of the Company’s annual financial reports for fiscal year ended December 31, 2002 and certain related items from March 31, 2003 to April 30, 2003.

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Meeting the new repayment schedule for the RoadOne revolving commitments as described above under Amendments to the Credit Facilities, will require that the Company sell its towing services businesses according to its contemplated schedule on acceptable terms.  While the Company believes its timetable for sales is achievable there can be no assurance that the schedule can be met.

The Company is currently in default under both the Senior and Junior Credit Facility as a result of the “going concern” explanatory paragraph included in the auditors’ report as well as the failure to file this Annual Report prior to April 30, 2003.  Additionally, the Company is in default of the EBITDA covenant under the Junior Credit Facility only for the first quarter of calendar 2003.  The Company is currently not pursuing a waiver of the default or an amendment to the Credit Facilities to cure the default.  The Company has had informal discussions with its creditors indicating that the creditors will not take action against the Company as a result of the default.  However, there can be no assurance that to the creditors will not pursue action in the future as a result of this default or any other default under the Credit Facilities.

Failure to achieve the Company’s revenue and income projections, or to sell towing services operations for the prices and on the timetable contemplated, could result in failure to comply with the amended debt service requirements.  Such non-compliance would result in an event of default, which if not waived by the lending groups, would result in the acceleration of the amounts due under the Senior Credit Facility as well as other remedies.  Under these circumstances the Company could be required to find alternative funding sources, such as sale of assets or other financing sources.  If the Company were unable to refinance the Senior Credit Facility on acceptable terms or find an alternative source of repayment for the Senior Credit Facility, the Company’s business and financial condition would be materially and adversely affected.  There is no assurance that the Company would be able to obtain any such refinancing or that it would be able to sell assets on terms that are accepted to the Company or at all.  If the Company is not successful in its efforts to refinance or extend the maturity date of the Junior Credit Facility, the Company would likely be required to seek bankruptcy court or other protection from its creditors.

In addition to the borrowings under the senior and junior credit facilities described above, the Company had approximately $5.0 million of mortgage notes payable, equipment notes payable and other long-term obligations at March 31, 2003.  The Company also had approximately $18.2  million in non-cancellable operating lease obligations, $17.6 million of which relates to truck and building leases of discontinued operations. 

Certain statements in this Form 10-Q, including but not limited to “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” may be deemed to be forward-looking statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Such forward-looking statements are made based on management’s belief as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management pursuant to “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  The Company’s actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements due to, among other things, the risks referenced herein and the risk factors set forth under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on May 22, 2003, and in particular, the risks associated with the wind down of the towing services segment and the risks associated with the terms of the Company’s substantial indebtedness.  The Company cautions that such factors are not exclusive.  The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by, or on behalf of, the Company.

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Item 4.   Controls and Procedures

Within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report, the Company carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), of the effectiveness of the design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-14(c) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  Based upon this evaluation, the Company’s CEO and CFO have concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act are recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms.

There were no significant changes in the Company’s internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of this evaluation.

 

 

 

 

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PART II.   OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1.   Legal Proceedings

The Company is, from time to time, a party to litigation arising in the normal course of its business. Litigation is subject to various inherent uncertainties, and it is possible that some of these matters could be resolved unfavorably to the Company, which could result in substantial damages against the Company. The Company has established accruals for matters that are probable and reasonably estimable and maintains product liability and other insurance that management believes to be adequate. Management believes that any liability that may ultimately result from the resolution of these matters in excess of available insurance coverage and accruals will not have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position or results of operations of the Company.

Item 6.   Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

(a)        Exhibits.

(b)        Reports on Form 8-K – No reports on Form 8-K were filed by the Registrant during the three months ended March 31, 2003.

 

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SIGNATURES

            Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Miller Industries, Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

MILLER INDUSTRIES, INC.

   
   
 

By:   /s/ J. Vincent Mish                                

 

     J. Vincent Mish

 

     Executive Vice President and

 

     Chief Financial Officer

 

Date:    May  22, 2003

 

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CERTIFICATIONS

 

     I, Jeffrey I. Badgley, certify that:

  1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Miller Industries, Inc.
     
  2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
     
  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
     
  4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:
  1. designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entitles, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
     
  2. evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”); and
     
  3. presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date;
  1. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
  1.  all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and
     
  2. any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls; and
  1. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. 

Date:    May 22, 2003

 

/s/ Jeffrey I. Badgley                                   

 

Jeffrey I. Badgley
President and Chief Executive Officer

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CERTIFICATIONS

 

     I, J. Vincent Mish, certify that:

  1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Miller Industries, Inc.
     
  2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
     
  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
     
  4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have:
  1. designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entitles, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
     
  2. evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this quarterly report (the “Evaluation Date”); and
     
  3. presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date;
  1. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
  1.  all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and
     
  2. any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls; and
  1. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. 

Date:    May 22, 2003

 

/s/ J. Vincent Mish                                   

 

J. Vincent Mish
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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