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Along with medium- and heavy-duty trucks, the company works around the clock to service emergency vehicles and motor homes.īowen, 61, spoke recently with The Oklahoman about his professional and personal life.
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The company expects to hit $300 million in annual revenues this year, with sales of some 2,500 new Freightliner, Sterling and Western Star trucks, plus American LaFrance emergency vehicles and more than 3,000 used trucks.ĪTC's parts and service departments will bring in roughly $75 million of those revenues. Moreover, ATC employs 575, including 175 workers in Oklahoma City and 38 percent of the original 65 employees from 27 years ago. Today, he owns the 22-acre dealership and three others in Tulsa (5104 W 60), Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. As a young, new manager he was charged with building the Oklahoma City Freightliner dealership, hiring the staff and running the operation. Twenty-seven years ago, Bowen stood in an empty field on this location and worried he'd taken on more than he could handle. "It's the old story: The harder I work, the luckier I get." "I may be the luckiest human being ever," he says. "If they're tails, I kick them until they come up heads. It's a sunny, breezy Tuesday and he's walking from his office at the corner of Reno Avenue the block south to his truck dealership alongside Interstate 40. "I only pick them up if they're heads-up," said Charlie Bowen, president and chief executive officer of Around the Clock (ATC) Freightliner Group Inc. A conference / training room with large stone tile flooring supports up to 40 students in a classroom setup, with a small kitchen attached.There's a penny lying tails-up in the middle of Ann Arbor Avenue in northwest Oklahoma City. The dealership administrative area features open space to support modular furniture, carpeting, built-in office cabinetry and a variety of break facilities. The executive reception area is similarly finished with a large beveled wood built-in counter and marble counter top. The executive conference room is carpeted and the walls are covered with a combination of wood wainscoting / textured glaze, wood crown molding and floor-to-ceiling beveled wood panels. This décor carries in to the executive offices, which feature the wood floors, wainscot and crown molding over glaze the glaze patina carries up to the tray ceiling with recessed lighting and faux beams. The executive common areas feature wood-covered floors and the textured walls with luxurious wainscoting and chair rails and crown molding in wood over a fine brown glaze. At the end of the first floor is a large retail store, selling an extensive variety of OEM truck parts and accessories for truck drivers.Īn elevator leads to the second floor where the executive and administrative offices are located.
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Also in this area is a large television lounge for drivers with theater-styled, fold-out seating. Two connected service bays and a training area provide space for sales presentations or training with direct access to OTR trucks.Īdjacent to the Service area are the Parts Sales and extensive warehousing spaces, with a large storage mezzanine.īetween the Customer Service area and Parts showroom are located a large communal shower / locker and lounge areas for drivers. It is finished with liner panels and is fully heated and air conditioned. The Service area features air/water/oil distribution systems and an 8 foot deep cast-in-place lube pit to service OTR trucks and RVs. On the interior, Service area includes sloped floors with 55 work bays in two wings. Another 9.5 foot retaining wall runs along the west and north edges of the property. The parking areas for the two buildings are separated by two-tier stacked block retaining walls with landscape accent beds. This required an engineered stack block retaining wall as tall as 25.5 feet spanning most of the length of the property. The original property for the ATC Freightliner campus fell over 50 feet from front to back.
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In addition, a portion of Building A has a separate generator backup. Electricity is then distributed from there to the rest of Building A and to Building B. The ATC Freightliner campus includes a complex electrical system the primary power is brought directly into Building A, which is located in a separate, secured mezzanine.
The structure and roof are pre-engineered steel systems from Varco Pruden (VP) Buildings, and the buildings’ two-story walls were created with tilt-up construction. Originally designed completely as a pre-engineered building, the ATC Freightliner complex features blend of pre-engineered metal and traditional tilt-up construction. Building B houses the new and used truck sales department. The The Around The Clock Freightliner Group, LLC complex features two buildings – the 183,088 SF Building A provides a new home to the retail, service area, parts sales and warehousing, technician training facilities and administrative and executive offices.
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