Shepparton business celebrates 70 years of success

KEEP THOSE WHEELS TURNING...Central Tyre Service established themselves in 1952 as a key community business that helps keep every other organisation on the road and the wheels of regional industry turning. Pictured, owners and business partners, Rod Poliness and Timothy Webb. Photo: Kelly Carmody
KEEP THOSE WHEELS TURNING...Central Tyre Service established themselves in 1952 as a key community business that helps keep every other organisation on the road and the wheels of regional industry turning. Pictured, owners and business partners, Rod Poliness and Timothy Webb. Photo: Kelly Carmody
KEEP THOSE WHEELS TURNING...Central Tyre Service established themselves in 1952 as a key community business that helps keep every other organisation on the road and the wheels of regional industry turning. Pictured, owners and business partners, Rod Poliness and Timothy Webb. Photo: Kelly Carmody
KEEP THOSE WHEELS TURNING…Central Tyre Service established themselves in 1952 as a key community business that helps keep every other organisation on the road and the wheels of regional industry turning. Pictured, owners and business partners, Rod Poliness and Timothy Webb. Photo: Kelly Carmody

Over the past seventy years, Shepparton has made dynamic changes as the food bowl of Australia. In that time, numerous small businesses have grown and prospered providing a level of service that meets the needs of the local community.

One of those dynamic businesses is Central Tyre Service who are involved in one such industry that has established themselves in 1952 as a key community business that helps keep every other organisation on the road and the wheels of the regional industry turning.

With support from Goodyear Tyres in the early days, the company has seen the transfer of ownership stay within the business. Current directors, Rod Poliness and Tim Webb have both spent the larger part of their working life, Rod at 33 years, Tim at 15 years, with Central Tyre Service to reach the point where they became the current owners. The 20 staff members doing all the work in the shop and on the road have an average of 15 years tenure with the business.

With the workshop constantly working on jobs at hand, the company has invested in fully equipped mobile service vehicles, two utilities and a truck, that can provide onsite service and backup to the region’s transport and agricultural industries, from cars to trucks and tractors by taking the tyre changing service to the field when needed.

Our Goulburn Valley magazine salutes this great local business that has stood the test of time by providing excellent customer service.