The first year of business has been a rousing success at Dex in Floyd County’s BranwickCenter. Dex receives used heavy trucks from Volvo and Mack test centers and from Arrow Truck Sales. What were once hulking remnants of rust are fully reused, recycled, or remanufactured taking thousands of pounds out of the waste stream.
“We take ‘end of life’ trucks, harvest as many parts as possible and sell them to dealers,” Isom extrapolates. “The Mack and Volvo engines are sent to the Mack remanufacturing center to be remanufactured.” What’s left, he adds, is then recycled. “Nothing is wasted, everything is used again.”
Isom was a Volvo employee for 30 years. He traveled all over the world for Volvo including assignments in China, Sweden and the United States. In 2006, he was a project manager for Dex and was then appointed manager of its Floyd operation when it opened in January 2007. The business made its first sale in February of last year.
The Dex warehouse in Floyd is the company’s only U.S. operation, though it has others in Australia and Brazil. Floyd is the only one selling used truck parts. In its first year of operation here, the firm took apart 100 trucks. It is capable of processing two trucks a day.
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