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Hughie's Collision

Name: Hughie's Collision
Uploaded: 2016-01-13T03:10:12+00:00
Duration: 1 min 50 s
Channel: Shaun Whynacht
Description: In this interview, Huey Sampson, owner of Huey's Collision Centre in Port Hastings, outlines the shop's evolution and current operations. He notes that…

13 Jan 2016 · 2 min

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In this interview, Huey Sampson, owner of Huey's Collision Centre in Port Hastings, outlines the shop's evolution and current operations. He notes that the business has been operating since 1989 and relocated to a larger facility in 2009 to accommodate growth. The centre specializes in collision repair, with the majority of work coming from insurance-related claims, though some customer‑pay jobs are also handled. Sampson emphasizes the importance of staying current with technology and industry changes, highlighting support from the Central Business Development Centre (CBDC) that helped fund a new paint booth and the move to the larger building. Looking ahead, he aims to continue growing despite the area's modest population by investing in staff training, maintaining technological upgrades, and ensuring job security for employees. Additionally, the centre offers a courtesy and rental vehicle service directly from the shop, allowing accident‑involved customers to receive a replacement vehicle immediately, which he views as a competitive advantage.

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Hi, I'm Huey Sampson from Huey's Collision Centre in Port Hastings. I've been in business since 1989. We moved to this location in 2009, which is a larger building that we needed to expand. Huey's Collision Centre is a shop that repairs vehicles that have been in collision. We mainly do insurance repairs, some customer pay, but majority of our business is insurance related. In any business, it's very challenging. We like to keep up with technology and changes, so it's something that it's never-ending. With the CBDC, they helped us out with moving to this location. Because it's a much bigger building and we needed a better paint booth to do the quality of work that needed to be done in the industry. So it has kept us in business basically because we had to change with the changing of the times, I guess. Well, our future is to try and keep growing. We're in an area that's not hugely populated, but we still have to keep up with technology and keep our people trained, and it guarantees and secures their, their position here. We are targeted in the collision aspect. We have a courtesy and rental business that we operate out of our own shop, which is convenient for our customers. We can put them in a vehicle immediately if they are involved in an accident, so it's a bonus, I think, for our business.