Calhoun auto repair shop ranks as top 100 facility | Mclean County

Joe’s Transmission & Automobile Maintenance, a restore store positioned on Kentucky Freeway 1046 in Calhoun, was recently honored by Jasper Engines & Transmissions as a person of the prime 100 unbiased repair facilities.

Joe Butterworth, operator, and his son and technician Dallas Butterworth ended up excited to get the information.

“It feels quite good,” Dallas Butterworth, 24, explained. “(We want) to go up however. That’s our target. …We’re blessed for the place we’re at.”

The shop was beforehand in the best 100 in 2019 and 2020.

The shop has also gained a selection of awards for spending $25,000 well worth of Jasper Engines & Transmissions pieces and merchandise for repairs, even with the enterprise coming down to cook dinner the team steak dinners and have been rated shop of the month given that November for their providing district.

For the adhering to many years forward, Dallas Butterworth hopes to eye a top 15 placement.

The store opened up in May 2003 soon after Joe Butterworth, 57, concluded up functioning at the Ford dealership in Livermore for 20 years wanting to test some thing different but did not anticipate the shop’s success.

“All I required to do when I opened up this area was to be all-around to greet the young children when they received off the college bus and that was it,” Joe Butterworth said. “I definitely didn’t see anything at all like this, interval. And all of the sudden, it (took off).”

“There’s not a lot of counties we really do not do below,” Dallas Butterworth reported.

The Butterworths mentioned most of the greater ranking stores are located in Texas because of to the dimension of assignments and repairs they perform on.

And Joe’s Transmission & Vehicle Maintenance is composed of four workforce — the Butterworths, together with John Butterworth’s brother Jack Butterworth and Trevor Wood.

Joe Butterworth also owns a tire store in Calhoun that his other son Dylan Butterworth runs though helping out with tiny repairs.

“When you glance at the quantity of staff we have versus some of the other retailers, and wherever we’re at — I suggest, we’re rural — I signify, it’s a major offer,” Joe Butterworth explained. “…We have bought a good crew. These fellas really don’t get off they really don’t go household sick they never simply call in they are constantly in this article early, preventing it (and) keeping late. …I could not make it with out them.”

“The recognition is deserved, especially for as quite a few hours that we all set in,” Dallas Butterworth claimed.

Joe and Dallas Butterworth experience that the store has been equipped to obtain these accolades and interest based mostly on core values they aim on.

“Honesty and … answering the cell phone,” Joe Butterworth claimed. “ ‘I’m on the mobile phone six (to) 7 hrs a working day and I’m continually using messages …. I’m definitely significant about answering the cellular phone and contacting men and women again.”

Joe Butterworth also stated the shopper provider and the top quality of function are critical components to the shop’s ongoing good results.

Joe Butterworth reported he has strategies for Dallas Butterworth to get above the store sometime, who has been with his dad’s store due to the fact he was younger.

“When he started off, most of it was mechanical and not electrical,” Dallas Butterworth claimed. “Now it’s grow to be so a lot software program and whatnot …. It’s just the reality that the understanding curve for each of us and (we) get to study collectively is just great ….”

Nonetheless, Dallas Butterworth plans to have Joe Butterworth adhere all over.

“…I don’t want to see him go wherever,” Dallas Butterworth explained. “This is his toddler.”

Regardless of how the shop ranks in the coming decades, Joe Butterworth is thankful of the support that the shop has continued to acquire.

“I enjoy what the community does below and what everyone does,” Joe Butterworth stated. “I value their loyalty and them coming back again.”