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Once an Auto Auction, Manheim Metro Atlanta Now a ‘Hub’ for Mobility Fleet Services
Friday June 21, 2019
Auto Remarketing, June 21, 2019 — Tim Echols, now a commissioner on the Georgia Public Service Commission, was 11 years old and selling boiled peanuts at his family’s auto auction, then known as Bishop Brothers Auto Auction.
“As I roamed this lot, talking to car dealers, learning that if burned the peanuts, they would ask me for a refund, and that was no good,” Echols said, speaking before a crowd gathered on the very same spot as that auction.
“And then eventually, they let me drive a car here. My first day, backing the car out, I hit another car and drove it off the wash ramp,” he said. “And so, I didn’t have a lot of great luck in learning to drive here.
“But you know what? I learned from my grandad about being an entrepreneur,” Echols said. “I learned about making a deal. I learned about working hard. It was a lot of great lessons.”
What perhaps many entrepreneurs learn along the way is how to adapt to change.
And change in automotive is perhaps felt the strongest around mobility, where new ownership models and vehicle technologies are changing the landscape and infrastructure of the car business, including wholesale.