New service center grand opening brings community together for celebration
Murphy – Valley River Chevrolet will be celebrating the grand opening of their multimillion-dollar medium-duty truck and RV service center facility at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The event will provide guests with free hot dogs, with vendors serving beverages and snow cones, and free raffle giveaways to
celebrate the accomplishment. In addition, Bryan Tiller, owner of Valley River Chevrolet, is passionate about helping animals, so he has invited Valley River Humane Society to bring animals up for adoption.
“Mr. Tiller really likes to get people together anytime he can and wants to bring the community together,” said Joey Gutierrez, an associate with Valley River Chevrolet.
Part of the event will feature a demonstration of the new service building and ARI-Hetra mobile column lifts, using trucks provided by the Ranger Volunteer Fire Department.
This facility will be the only one of its kind in the region, designed to cater to the service and repair of larger trucks and trailers, tow trucks, ambulances, recreational vehicles, fire trucks, etc. Other shops in the area a limited by weight, height or length, but this facility was built with these potential limitations in mind.
“The shop is 80 feet by 100 feet, giving us 8,000 square feet to work with,” Gutierrez said.
Height is another limiting factor.
“At the lowest point, the ceiling is 22 feet and goes up from there with 16-foot-tall garage doors, with most medium/heavy duty
trucks topping out at 14 feet tall,” Gutierrez said.
He added that their lifts are capable of holding up to 32,000 pounds per axle, ensuring that weight won’t limit what vehicles they’re able to work on.
The building isn’t meant to only service Chevy vehicles and will service any vehicle that is considered medium/heavy duty, regardless of the make or brand.
“We plan to service mostly class 6 vehicles, but can service up to class 8,” Gutierrez said. “Our owner recognized there was a need for this service, and he wanted to fill it.”
Details: Visit valleyriverchevrolet.com.