David Justice has been an auto care professional for over 30 years. He grew up in the family business working for his father. At, a young age David purchased his father’s business and went on his own. Over the years David had multiple Shell Gas stations.
In 2001, David got out of the gasoline business and bought an old closed BP station with 3 bays. Within a short time, he added 5 more bays and did $1.8M. (Parkway Auto Care). In 2009, David built an 8500 square foot store in a neighboring city from the ground up producing over $1 million in the first 12 months. Then in 2012, he built a 10,000 square foot store again from the ground up in another neighboring city producing over $1.2 million in just 12 months’ time. The 3 stores were Express Tire locations and grossed over 5 million a year. David was elected and served a 2-year term on the NAPA National Auto Care Advisory Council from 2012-2013.
In search of a way to better manage labor hours, David created Labor Profit Management. LPM is a web-based time management system for the service professional. In June of 2013 NAPA launched Dave’s LPM solution nationally and since then David has been helping shop owners across the country create more net labor profits by having them measure and manage their labor dollars with his product.
David was a featured speaker at the NAPA National expo event held in Las Vegas. David presented 5 seminars to over 3500 people on how to manage your labor factor.
In 2016 David received an offer from the largest automotive chain in the industry and sold his 3 stores in September of 2016.
Once again David had the opportunity to follow his passion of helping people and created Repair Shop Of Tomorrow with Stan Aten an electronic marketing social media expert/website designer. RSOT is a completely comprehensive program for the independent automotive repair facilities encompassing done for your marketing, SOP, and labor tracking complete with accountability coaching that creates real-world results.
David has been happily married for over 22 years to his wife Tracy. He is the proud father of 5 children and a grandfather of three.
Key Talking Points:
Wants to Give Back, Do More
3 Legs to the Stool
Marketing Pieces vs. Marketing Programs
Other Points
Major Pivot
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