36 | TRANSPORT Auto Technics Growth drives expansion plans Virginia Wright Auto Super Shoppe Morrinsville services and repairs truck and trailer fleets, light commercials and cars. to page 38 PROUD PARTNER OF AUTO TECHNICS We stock a complete range of trade consumables, hand & power tools Come see us in store Unit 2/144 Thames St, Morrinsville P: 07 889 7681 www.tradezonemvlle.co.nz Ace Electrical Services Ltd 71 Anderson Street Morrinsville www.aceelectrical.nz Phone: 0800 889 6123 For all your farming electrical requirements: • Milking systems • Water pumps • Effluent systems Ace Electrical Member MASTER ELECTRICIANS Twenty-six years ago, Allan Clark left his job as workshop foreman for what was then the New Zealand Dairy company to start a new business with his wife, Penny. With plans to specialize in the servicing and repair of light commercial diesel vehicles, farmers’ utes and the like, they set up in a small workshop in Anderson Street in Morrinsville and called themselves Auto Technics. It wasn’t long before satisfied customers started bringing their other petrol-driven cars in as well and, as their clientele slowly extended to heavier transport, they then built a larger truck-focused workshop with a service pit in it alongside the original workshop. The Clarks always knew there was the potential for growth in Morrinsville and the surrounding area and, as they hoped and planned for, Auto Technics has grown along with the region. “Penny and I have worked together in the business from the beginning, working as a team to build it into what it is today” says Allan. Auto Technics carry out the service and repair work on truck and trailer fleets for many different companies and continue to do the light commercial vehicles that was their initial point of difference, and the petrol cars that soon joined them. “One of our best business decisions was joining the Auto Super Shoppe group around 14 years ago and we now trade as Auto Super Shoppe Morrinsville. We benefit from national advertising and receive a huge amount of support and information from the group,” says Allan. For some years they’ve wanted to expand their premises without being able to find the buildings they could adapt to suit their needs, or the land to build on. This changed two years ago and in six or seven months they hope to be moving into their new workshop at 91 -95 Avenue Road, just 200 metres down the road from their current site in downtown Morrinsville. Allan and Penny had been thinking about what they needed in new premises for long enough to have a sheaf of ideas and plans ready to take to the experts once the 6000m² section they bought on newly released industrial land became available. “We sat down with Kelvin Lalich Builders, Waikato Sheds and the engineers and worked out the finer details and how things would work on-site.” Now they’re looking forward to working in spaces designed to meet their specific needs, to having all the room to move they could ask for, and above all enjoying all the efficiencies their new premises will bring. “The building on our new site is going to be 1560m² in size, 52 metres long and 30 metres wide,” says Allan. “It’s as big as the total size of our current site’s land and buildings.”
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