New Parts Galore Salvage Yard Features Latest Trends in Recycling
Parts Galore, a new venture of Soave Enterprises’ Metals Recycling Group that opened in June, is changing the way consumers view junkyards.
The huge 18-acre complex, located on Eight Mile Road, west of Hoover in Detroit, offers do-it-yourself auto parts salvage. Lined up in neat rows and organized by both vehicle type and manufacturer, some 2,000 cars and trucks are available at any given time for customers to look through and remove any parts they need.
It’s a self-service yard with an enormous, ever-changing inventory of vehicles. That’s a niche nobody else really has in this area,” says Parts Galore Manager Bill Wild.
It’s part of a new nationwide trend that’s cleaning up junkyards and making them easier and cheaper for regular folks to get into and, once inside, to find and retrieve parts on their own.”
Before vehicles are placed into inventory, the Parts Galore staff removes the gas tanks and all fluids (gasoline, engine oil, transmission fluid, etc.), which are then recycled.
After customers have stripped a row of vehicles of parts, the entire row is removed and replaced with a new batch. The vehicles that have been removed are shipped to one of three Ferrous Processing & Trading (FPT) automobile shredders in the Detroit area, where they are fragmentized and prepared for remelting by steel mills, foundries and smelters.
About 1,000 vehicles per month will make their way through Parts Galore and then into FPT’s plants, representing the latest development in recycling technology and marketing of obsolete cars and trucks. New Parts Galore Salvage Yard Features Latest Trends in Recycling
Major Sporting Events Keep Transportation Group Busy
Baseball’s All -Star Game and Super Bowl XL in Detroit were action-packed times for the Transportation Group.
Commuter Express was selected by Major League Baseball to be the Official Bus Transportation Provider for the 2005 All-Star Game played at Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers.
The many events surrounding the game kept Commuter Express’ buses – as well as Checker Sedan’s fleet of luxury sedans and taxi cabs – busy moving players, their families, official guests and the general public throughout the five days preceding the July 12th game.
The All-Star Game was a great warm-up for the February 5th Super Bowl, which was played at Ford Field. Tim McCarthy, president of the Transportation Group, served as co-chair of the SBXL Vehicle-for-Hire Committee as it prepared for the huge demand.
Tim reported that Commuter Express and Checker Sedan were sold out during Super Bowl Week. The company’s drivers moved an incredible number of out of- town visitors and celebrities and handled all transportation coordination for the Jimmy Kimmel Show which broadcast from Detroit during Super Bowl week.
In other activity, Commuter Express sent two buses to Louisiana on very short notice to help move evacuees after Hurricane Katrina. The buses left Detroit with cases of bottled water and boxes of “munchies” to distribute to the evacuees, who were grateful for the donations.
The Transportation Group was also busy during the October convention of the Sweet Adelines, which had to switch its annual meeting from New Orleans to Detroit as a result of the hurricane. Many of the association’s 8,000 female barbershop singers used our services during their stay.
