This post seems in the July version of 400 Lifetime Magazine.
If you requested Scott Muse exactly where he saw himself in 2021, way back again when he was very first pumping gasoline at an Amoco filling station in Lawrenceville proudly owning a 19-bay garage in Cumming wouldn’t be his very first guess. But, in hindsight, with his passion for difficulty-solving and compassion for men and women, possessing and running a successful automotive heart with an unmatched name was a pretty clear evolution.
That highway to running Scott’s Car Centre started when he was 16 a long time outdated. He pumped fuel and fixed tires during superior school, and finally started obtaining further into automobiles as a tech in a assistance garage. With piqued curiosity, he enrolled in night time college to earn market-normal ASE certifications.
– photo by Ben Hendren
He devoted himself to staying at the best of his activity, continuing his instruction every yr, turning out to be a Learn Tech, and building a deep enthusiasm for the ins and outs of a continually transforming trade. With professional expertise, good mentors and almost 30 yrs of palms-on working experience, the future move was to go out on his individual.
“I experienced been in the company for so extensive and labored for so lots of other individuals, so I understood that I could do it greater,” mentioned Muse. “I had a wife at residence, and two small children, so it was variety of a nuts selection, but I knew I just experienced to do it.”
In 2003, Muse opened a 1-person, a person-bay garage on Peachtree Parkway and wore each individual one hat to get as a result of that 1st year. Just after that year, he employed Dan Levan, his to start with tech, and at some point Bob Contreras as his No. 1 assistance advisor, who are still with him right now (alongside with most of his other staff, who have remained on staff because the working day they were being employed).
The trio labored for three several years out of that garage just before it was time for one more huge choice and in 2006, Muse set his existence discounts down on the corner across the avenue — wherever Scott’s Automobile Center still is these days — to give him a tiny much more home to increase. He designed 10 bays … but only had a few lifts and a couple of employees, so with it he experienced a whole great deal of hope.
“I am blessed, for the reason that it took about 18 months and then matters promptly commenced to adjust,” stated Muse, who, in 2007, included 4 bays to his unique 10-bay shop, then created an extra 5 bays in the rear of his assets, and quadrupled the workers by the close of that time frame. “I observed myself building the second constructing mainly because we grew genuinely rapid, and appropriate then I decided to surround myself with really superior people today and that I would take care of men and women as if they were being a loved ones member.”
And the staff at Scott’s Car is, in actuality, one massive family. Aside from organization journeys and Christmas get-togethers, the speedy charge of technological development and complexity of the fashionable auto tends to make continued instruction for his professionals a precedence.
In truth he sends them to related training courses, and in undertaking so made the basis for a resounding philosophy that their achievements does not occur from revenue. Basically place, they’re the ideal in the company. They correct difficulties other men and women just cannot.
