Central Coast Truck Middle turning into vacation spot service, buy hub | Chamber Highlight

Gary Ruskauff, normal supervisor of CCTC, mentioned that the brand new Santa Maria location, 1400 W. Stowell Highway, employs 47 individuals however that the situation was designed to develop with will increase in enterprise. 

“We constructed this constructing to develop. We’re repeatedly including to our employees as our enterprise will increase,” Ruskauff mentioned.

The brand new 40,000-square-foot Central Coast Truck Middle facility opened in July 2021 and gives a number of providers together with truck gross sales, each new and used, together with a completely staffed service division with professionally skilled technicians doing every thing from oil adjustments to engine adjustments.

Ruskauff mentioned that though CCTC is a Freightliner and Western Star dealership, the middle has components for a number of different producers.

“So, we will do all of it right here. We’re a full service dealership,“ he mentioned.

Offering superior service and help to the native trucking business is a spotlight and fervour for Ruskauff and CCTC, however in addition they present top-quality service for leisure automobiles, industrial and even some sorts of private automobiles. 

“College buses, cellular houses, over-the-road vans, dirt-hauling vans, there’s not so much that we don’t service right here,”  Ruskauff famous.

Whereas gross sales and servicing of huge long-haul vans is a major focus for CCTC now, the 9-acre property has been developed in a means that permits the enterprise to develop into utterly new providers and markets. One of many projected additions is a truck leasing and rental service for native companies. Ruskauff identified that the rental service would permit farms so as to add wanted delivery and supply vans throughout harvest instances. 

That enlargement will give new companies in Santa Maria and the Central Coast the chance to obtain the high-quality service that Ruskauff feels they deserve, service that he mentioned was doable due to the employees at Central Coast Truck Middle. 

“I really like with the ability to help my staff,” he mentioned. “All of us work actually laborious, all of us work very well with one another, creating a superb atmosphere not just for one another however for the trucking business on this space, because it has been underserved for thus lengthy. We owe it to them.”

Ruskauff additionally mentioned that the doorways to CCTC are open to everybody, and that if you’re curious concerning the providers provided, go to the middle to get a tour of the power and study what they do. 

Search present components inventories, discover extra details about providers provided whereas studying extra about Central Coast Truck Middle and their California Truck Facilities accomplice areas at californiatruckcenters.com

This text was produced in partnership with the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce, from an interview between CCTC Common Supervisor Gary Ruskauff and Molly Schiff, director of member and neighborhood engagement with the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce.