Container garages at petrol stations will open soon, and the rest is also abroad
With the Quick Stop Car car service, it took on a real form, in Chrudim they built the first container, in which there is a complete car service for less than fifty meters, which can accommodate an van. The first module introduced took place in Prague, where the container service was put into operation in an hour.
Zukal wants to have the first twenty services open in the holidays, there should be one hundred and twenty by the end of the year, and three hundred by 2024.
We are convinced that a large service, with quality equipment and qualified staff, priced between authorized and men’s garages, in the Czech Republic errors. This is true both in big cities and especially in those men. This project was therefore intended to fill a still open gap in the market, says Marek Zukal. According to the company’s executive, there is space on the Czech market and 1,500 new services. People have tried to repair their cars themselves, points to the complex and inexpensive service of modern cars.
Services under the Quick Stop Car banner should be established evenly throughout the country. Later, the company wants to expand to other countries in the Visegrad region, saying that it wants to go to Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, now it is Croatia, Slovenia, and Marek Zukal is talking about Bosnia.
We should enter the Slovak market in the second half of 2023 and in the first wave we perform dozens of service units. In Poland, it should be operational by the middle of 2024, and one hundred, in Hungary, about a dozen, adds Zukal.
This indicates that, in addition to their own, the demand for external is fully entering into the strategy of the new Czech project. He tried to negotiate the location of his service boxes with petrol operators, in addition to smaller Czech filling stations, as well as large foreign oil companies. And MOL and Orlen (the owner of the Benzina brand) themselves offer Zukal to spread his project to Hungary and Poland.
The road to independence
The business model is clear: Quick Stop Car builds the services and offers them to hire a franchise from the partners who will run the service at the gas station (sometimes to park the shopping center). Quick Stop Car rents a box at the petrol station (for 20 years with an option for another decade), builds the box (there are three modules), including three modules), and contracts for the supply of debts from the LKQ partner with additional spare parts under the Auto Kelly signs. Elite.
Let’s not look for employees, but let’s look at those who want to do business. Now, for example, they are in a big service and want to become independent, Zukal explains. He emphasizes that a mechanic does not need a large equity to start such a business. We will want to pay a deposit of 50 thousand, the rent of the service itself is under 800 euros per month, he describes. In order for the business to be meaningful, such a service city needs to pay 170 thousand for the city, after paying the cost, according to Zukal, the service manager spent around 45 thousand months. According to Zukal, one of his service boxes can be operated by one mechanic.
The production of one module, including equipment for service and tire service, will cost Quick Stop Car 2.2 million without tax, according to Marek Zukal, this is the price before the current healthy. The module with a jack has a clear height of three meters and a meter, so that deliveries can also be serviced in it. The total size of the service is eight meters.
Zukal’s company has a designed form of its service container. It is made by a supplier, then it can be installed literally on a green field in an hour. The service unit can be relocated to another city with minimal costs, Zukal describes. There are solar panels on the main box and a lot of energy in three batteries.
Quick Stop Car will function as a full-fledged service provider, customers will order, long-term service will be available, online access to the Auto Kelly and Elite databases and other services. For example, it pays for customers waiting for repairs. The main delivery will be orders within the centralized center.
The same prices will be available
He tried a lot of reliance on leasing companies, which usually do not transport their fleet of cars from operating leases to repair signs. We say that 65 percent of customers will be fleeting, he says. Typically, the fleet manager will order a car for an oil change and have provided regular service to the sales representative in his country, instead of the practice of fully fulfilling the specific contract service, the company told. According to Zukal, it will be as easy as one invoice within the Quick Stop Car. Prices will be the same in all branches, for example in the Czech Republic.
As well as independent experts, Marek Zukal dealt most with the question of whether there will be enough people in the project, whether there will be enough people who will want to run the service at the gas station. We had a huge demand after the first days they reported on the project. Contact us, he describes the fact that personal and uninteresting people have grown to worry. Addressed us around a hundred people, uvd. The current contract is 60 specific cities, of which 40 are submitted for a building permit and they are completed.
Zukal umv heads fully to put the shift of the whole project. Box service handles most mechanical work, from storing oil and filter to chassis service and you can change clutches. They can’t handle bodywork and repair after accidents. According to Zukal, a center under the head of Quick Stop Car should be established within a few years, where the first body and paint shops would gather.
The general partner of the project and also the main supplier of the complete equipment will be the American company LKQ. The Czech branch of the company is the largest domestic supplier of construction debts and accessories for the automotive market. LKQ will also help Quick Stop Car within the training staff.
Franzanti will operate the individual services on the basis of a detailed manual, at the same time the operator will have to complete basic training courses and each year of kneeing in LKQ.
Dalm, due to the fact that LKQ CZ established cooperation with QSC, was a potential expansion of the project to neighboring countries in which LKQ operates. We will supply Quick Stop Car with several garov equipment and more than one needed for vehicle repairs, that is, from the log cabin to the trucks, air conditioning, geometry, diagnostics and jacks, the form of cooperation Jaroslav Pospil from LKQ CEE is approaching.
LKQ includes one of the unauthorized partner car service Auto Kelly or Elit. He gave a large independent tire service and car service is BestDrive.