Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. We'll now begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator instruction). Our first question comes from Trey Grooms with Stephens Inc. Please go ahead.
Trey Grooms - Stephens Inc.
Good morning.
Michael Harlan
Morning, Trey.
Trey Grooms - Stephens Inc.
Just real quick, could you elaborate a little bit more on the assets that you are talking about, possibly divesting, like what markets are you focusing on there? And if you could maybe elaborate a little bit more on that please.
Michael Harlan
Trey, it's Michael. We'll be just putting out a press release when we complete these and as I mentioned, probably the larger of the two transactions should be closed in the next few days. So, we probably preferred not to specifically identify markets. I will tell you that they are non-core market areas. So, they are not any of our five major market areas. And I think Robert, generally, the annual revenue from these is --
Robert Hardy
It's around $50 million to $60 million and it will come out of our revenue base. And as Michael mentioned, it will be accretive to us on a continuing basis both on the margin line and the EPS line, excluding the impact of the sale itself.
Trey Grooms - Stephens Inc.
Okay. That's very helpful. Thank you. And then on your comments about '08 volume being down slightly, does this play much of a role in that at all, these divestitures?
Robert Hardy
No. When Michael was referring to volumes being down, those would be assets that we would compare ourselves in '08 to '07. So, we will be down even with these assets out of the equation.
Michael Harlan
That would be same store sales decline, Trey.
Trey Grooms - Stephens Inc.
Okay. That's helpful. And then as far as the bad debt expense that you said was one of the reasons for the increase in SG&A, are you seeing this kind of become a problem with more of your customers at the end markets trying to continue to deteriorate?
Michael Harlan
I think that there's couple of ways that we are evaluating this. Our DSO is up slightly. But there are certain markets that we incurred a write-off in those markets, one in New Jersey and several in Michigan. And I think it's fair to say as the economy slows that our customers are becoming more slow payers and a couple of bright notes so as we look at it, as far as charges go, is that, we are typically the first ones or one of the first ones on site and we have quite a bit of what we call lean rights, which means we secure our ability to collect and be the first ones onsite, typically we're pretty close to getting paid first. But we're seeing some more focus if you will on extension of terms and so forth that we're trying to bring in from a collection standpoint.
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