Before it became Kubota of Lynchburg, it was known as Farm Service Company, a complete agriculture equipment dealership founded in 1940 and run by the same family for over 70 years. They were also one of the oldest Kubota dealerships in the country, having acquired Kubota very early on. In 2017, the dealership came under… Read more »
Before Kelly Angelette was the owner of Southern Trailer Works, you could find him sprint car racing on dirt tracks across the southern United States. Frustrated with the lack of custom trailer options available to him, he became a dealer himself in 2000, leveraging his industry knowledge. Working alongside his wife, Jody, they started small,… Read more »
In the first part of our chat with Hilary Demos, R-Equipment’s Financial Controller, she shared the various challenges their dealership encountered in the two months that they were with CDK’s Intellidealer and why they came back to ASPEN. In this second part, Hilary talks about Charter’s ASPEN business management system and how it was able… Read more »
R-Equipment is a family-owned and operated dealership through and through. In 1996, lifelong farmer, Ed Reichling, and his wife, Tammy, founded R-Equipment from their family farm. At the time, they were only selling used equipment, but quickly noticed a niche for bottom hopper commodity trailers in the grain belt of Illinois. They expanded to a… Read more »