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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.8

                            Option to Ownership Plan
                              dated August 23, 2000



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                                   ABLEST INC.

     Option-to-Ownership Plan

         1.       This Option-to-Ownership Plan (the "Plan") has been adopted by
the Board of Directors of Ablest Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
effective October 9, 2000.

         2.       The persons eligible to participate in the Plan are those
employees of the Company listed on the attached Exhibit A (the "Employees") who
hold options for common stock of the Company ("Options").

         3.       Pursuant to the Plan, each Employee may surrender all (but not
less than all) of his or her Options by no later than December 31, 2000, in
return for the opportunity to purchase common stock of the Company on the terms
and conditions set forth in the Plan.

         4.       The number of shares of common stock that each Employee may
purchase pursuant to the Plan shall be determined as follows: the value of the
options surrendered by such Employee as determined by the Black-Scholes method
and as indicated on the attached Exhibit A, divided by the fair market value of
a share of common stock of the Company as of the date of adoption of the Plan
(i.e., $4.25 per share).

         5.       Each Employee participating in the Plan will execute a
promissory note in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the
"Note") in connection with the sale of the shares to such Employee.

         6.       The shares may not be sold or transferred by the Employee
until the Note is satisfied in accordance with the Plan. Each Employee will
execute a pledge agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
C (the "Pledge Agreement") to secure satisfaction of the Note. The Company will
hold the certificate for the shares of each Employee until such Employee
satisfies his or her Note. Each certificate for shares shall bear a legend
referring to the foregoing restrictions.

         7.       The Company intends to forgive an Employee's Note if and when
such Employee completes one year of service as an employee of the Company, in
which he or she performs his or her job consistent with past performance. Upon
the forgiveness of a Note, the Pledge Agreement will be terminated and the
certificate for the shares such Employee has purchased will be delivered to him
or her.

         8.       If an Employee becomes disabled or dies before the end of the
first year after issuance of the shares to him or her, the Note will
automatically be forgiven and the shares and certificate therefor delivered to
such Employee's estate or him or her, as the case may be.

         9.       The total number of shares that may be issued pursuant to the
Plan is 55,314.


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