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Nick Gillies, chief operating officer, repairs
The biggest challenge Sandra sees is getting the right staff although they were fully staffed at the time of this interview. “COVID has taught us to be more flexible with our staff, they spent time at home over lockdown with their families and en- joyed spending more time with their kids.
“At the moment we are all recycling
each other’s staff and there’s some wild
money being thrown around, especially
with borders closed. We’d love to have more apprentices but it’s difficult to find the right kids,” she said.
Other challenges are the same as every- one else dealing with the availability and price of parts but also a lack of van stock to increase the mobile fleet. IQBodygroup has now been able to source some and ex- pects to have 20 vans on the road by the end of the year.
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MOTORONE AUTOBODY
SITES: 6
EMPLOYEES: 180
TYPE OF WORK: Drive and non-drive ESTABLISHED: 2019 (in collision repair) NO OF APPRENTICES: 9
FUNDING: Australian privately funded SITES IN: NSW, VIC, QLD
MOTORONE WAS SET UP ON THE VOLUME
model but they aren’t exclusive to one in- surer and have a diverse portfolio of work providers. We talked to Nick Gillies, chief operating officer, repairs to find out more.
MotorOne has been around for almost 50 years specialising in surface protection, window tinting, cosmetic repairs and oth- er car care services. In 2019 the first colli- sion repair facility was purpose built in Brendale, Queensland. A year later Acacia
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