Pictured above: Johan Stolt
Leading recovery vehicle bodybuilder Roger Dyson Group has
strengthened its team by signing a new international star
player!
Swedish-born Johan Stolt has joined the Droitwich-based company
as Aftersales Manager and brings a wealth of experience to his new
post.
Johan will now be using the management skills he has developed
in his previous positions with much larger organisations, and
introducing new processes to improve the efficiency of the Dyson
operation.
"The service team here have been doing a great job but there's
definitely huge potential to grow this side of our business," he
says. "We want operators to understand that we don't just sell them
equipment and then forget about them - we will do everything we can
to help our customers keep their vehicles and equipment working
productively throughout their life.
"So customers should watch out for a range of new initiatives
from Roger Dyson, including 'package deal' service contracts, and a
'one-stop shop' arrangement whereby we'll not only service and
maintain their recovery equipment, but the truck chassis on which
it's mounted too. We'll also be highlighting the fact that our
mobile teams can service and maintain vehicles at the operator's
premises, to remove the hassle of bringing a truck to our Droitwich
workshop."
Born and raised on the east coast of Sweden, near Gothenburg,
Johan came to England as a teenager, with his merchant seaman
father, in 1985. He decided to stay and tried his hand at various
jobs before joining a plant hire company, starting out as a
mechanic and rising to become Service Manager.
His cv also includes a spell as a sales engineer with a
hydraulic systems manufacturer whose main customers were the Royal
Air Force and Royal Portbury Dock, and another with plant machinery
manufacturer Komatsu, for which he ran a team of field service
engineers providing maintenance and repair cover for excavators,
diggers and dumpers across the country.
In 2004 Johan was 'head-hunted' by Exel Engineering, to look
after its fleet of trucks working from a network of depots in the
midlands, and a year later he transferred to leading Volvo truck
dealer Hartshorne, when the company acquired Exel's engineering
division.
"I enjoyed my five years with Hartshorne and Volvo but it was
time for a change, and I can put my experience of both the truck
and hydraulics industries to good use for Roger Dyson," he
explains.