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Title: The Best Place in Town to Take a Leak
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Broadway Used Tires
URL Source: http://www.broadwayusedtires.com/
Published: Feb 14, 2009
Author: me, who else?
Post Date: 2009-02-14 18:32:41 by Critter
Keywords: None
Views: 962
Comments: 59
Or Critter's hedge against the depression... 1st full week in business, no advertising, no grand opening, no nothing, cept 52 tires sold, average sale $40 a tire, average cost per tire, $8. Yes sir, I picked the right place at the right time. There is gold in that there used rubber. :) I expect that this shop will do 150 tires a week by summer. If you're looking for a good biz for the coming depression, this is it. It's hard, dirty work, but it pays good.
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#4. To: Critter (#0)
Whenever I'm at a junkyard I'll look around for a good tire. Most are gone, but occasionally I'll find a car with a Michelin or a Goodyear with most of the tread still on the tire. I consider such a find to be free gold.
My nephew owns ProTire Repair in Geneseo, Ny. He started out in 1987 repairing those great big tires you would find on excavating and mining equipment. He sometimes runs across damaged tires, gets them free, repairs them and sells them sometimes for thousands of dollars. Now that is free gold! I know he repaired a tire that was over 9 feet tall when standing up and it had a hole in it big enough to put his head through. Someone took his picture with his head thru that hole. That repair job cost the customer over $7,000 dollars. I told him someone must be crazy to pay that much for a tire repair. He took me over to the tire catalog which is about 6 inches thick, found the tire he repaired and the retail price for a new one was over $24,000. The tire he repaired had about 80% of the tread left and he guareenteed his work for one year. He employs 6 people at present. Incidentally, his first year in the business he did about $14,000 worth of business. Now he is doing nearly 7 figures worth. I built his shop out of an old farm fertilizer building and designed and built all of his tire lifting equipment here in Meadville,Pa in my garage. I gave him his first lifting machine as a wedding presnt in 1990. In 2001 I designed a large all hydraulic lifting machine that weighs about 2 tons and is rated to lift 15,000 lbs. I designed and built it in 4 weeks. I also built him 4 work stations that can accommodate a variety of sizes up to and including tires weighin over 3 tons. Everytime he and I talk he thanks me and says he can not ever repay me for what I have done for him. Anyone up in Geneseeo, NY can stop in and see how a big tire repair is made. It is very fascinating. He is the only one who guareentees his work for one full year against failure and he has a one week turn-around on his work. One week turn around means he picks up your tire, say on a monday, and returns it repaired the next monday. Or course he probably works close to 80 hours a week.
Yeah, there's big money in those big tires. My younger brother did those for years. He didn't actually do the repairs, but he did the changing. Hard work too. I'm thinking about running a truck tire road service truck out of this shop soon too. I am 1/4 mile off of I890 and about 3 miles from the NYS throughway.
#50. To: Critter (#28)
Running a truck tire road service truck is definitely hard work. Good money however. My nephew doesn't have to mount or dismount the tires he repairs. The dealers do that and he picks them up there. He just bought a brand new Peterbilt flat bed straight axle with a sleeper cab and a 30 ton crane. That set him back about $225,000. He has 2 trucks on the road and also a dual wheel tandem trailer to haul tires. He goes into Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, Albany, and Poukeepsie, NY and into Massachussetts to pick up tires. He has even gone to the harbor in NYC and picked up tires sent by ship from France and repaired them He'll wear that truck out in about 4/5 years. His other truck is a Mitsubishi with a 22 foot bed and a tailgate lift. He has a 60' X 100' main shop and an 60' X 80' shop he uses to fill tires with foam which he just started doing the last couple of years. Then he has an office building and a scale to weigh his truck loads. The scale accommodates 18 wheelers. He got to protect himself from those overload fines. Some of his vulcanizing machines cost about $150,000 each and he has three of them and two thermal presses which cost about $80,000 each. Add a couple of forktruck and an old Rochester Gas & Electric boom truck and you have a pretty good idea of what he has. He also stores tires in a few barns in the area as he rents them. His shop is about 12 miles off of I390 and about 22 miles from I- 90. He does some truck tire repair when it slows down in the off construction months. He always is finding those golden freebies. Some dealers can't always determine if a tire can be repaired and sometimes they scrap repairable tires after selling the customer a new tire. He has hundreds of tires and I mean hundreds. Some of them are really rare and hard to come by and he gets top dollar for those.
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#22. To: Turtle (#4)
Whenever I'm at a junkyard I'll look around for a good tire. Most are gone, but occasionally I'll find a car with a Michelin or a Goodyear with most of the tread still on the tire. I consider such a find to be free gold.
#28. To: LACUMO (#22)
Replies to Comment # 28. I'm thinking about running a truck tire road service truck out of this shop soon too. I am 1/4 mile off of I890 and about 3 miles from the NYS throughway.
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