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

Joe’s Transmission & Auto Mend, a mend shop situated on Kentucky Highway 1046 in Calhoun, was just lately honored by Jasper Engines & Transmissions as one particular of the prime 100 unbiased restore services.

Joe Butterworth, proprietor, and his son and technician Dallas Butterworth ended up thrilled to receive the information.

“It feels rather good,” Dallas Butterworth, 24, said. “(We want) to go up although. Which is our intention. …We’re blessed for exactly where we’re at.”

The store was earlier in the best 100 in 2019 and 2020.

The store has also received a selection of awards for expending $25,000 truly worth of Jasper Engines & Transmissions elements and merchandise for repairs, even with the company coming down to cook the personnel steak dinners and have been rated shop of the month due to the fact November for their providing district.

For the pursuing many years ahead, Dallas Butterworth hopes to eye a best 15 placement.

The shop opened up in May well 2003 after Joe Butterworth, 57, completed up doing the job at the Ford dealership in Livermore for 20 years wanting to consider anything distinct but did not anticipate the shop’s accomplishment.

“All I required to do when I opened up this area was to be all around to greet the young ones when they obtained off the school bus and that was it,” Joe Butterworth mentioned. “I truly did not see just about anything like this, period. And all of the sudden, it (took off).”

“There’s not a lot of counties we don’t do here,” Dallas Butterworth reported.

The Butterworths explained most of the bigger position retailers are located in Texas owing to the sizing of tasks and repairs they perform on.

And Joe’s Transmission & Auto Repair is composed of 4 staff — the Butterworths, along 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 operates even though helping out with little repairs.

“When you seem at the sum of staff we have versus some of the other retailers, and in which we’re at — I indicate, we’re rural — I suggest, it’s a big offer,” Joe Butterworth mentioned. “…We have obtained a good crew. These guys really don’t get off they don’t go household sick they do not simply call in they’re often listed here early, fighting it (and) staying late. …I couldn’t make it without the need of them.”

“The recognition is deserved, primarily for as several hours that we all set in,” Dallas Butterworth explained.

Joe and Dallas Butterworth feel that the shop has been able to acquire these accolades and notice based on main values they target on.

“Honesty and … answering the cell phone,” Joe Butterworth mentioned. “ ‘I’m on the mobile phone six (to) seven several hours a day and I’m consistently getting messages …. I’m actually massive about answering the cellular phone and contacting persons again.”

Joe Butterworth also said the client services and the excellent of operate are key parts to the shop’s ongoing achievements.

Joe Butterworth claimed he has plans for Dallas Butterworth to consider about the store someday, who has been with his dad’s shop given that he was young.

“When he started, most of it was mechanical and not electrical,” Dallas Butterworth stated. “Now it’s grow to be so a great deal software and whatnot …. It is just the point that the mastering curve for both of those of us and (we) get to learn alongside one another is just brilliant ….”

Having said that, Dallas Butterworth plans to have Joe Butterworth stick all over.

“…I do not want to see him go everywhere,” Dallas Butterworth explained. “This is his infant.”

No matter of how the store ranks in the coming several years, Joe Butterworth is thankful of the aid that the shop has continued to get.

“I enjoy what the group does here and what every person does,” Joe Butterworth claimed. “I take pleasure in their loyalty and them coming back again.”