“There are so many jobs in transport; if you’re thinking about it, just give it a go!”
Jack always thought he was more of a car guy. However, an exciting rotation in truck detailing changed his mind and sent his career speeding in a whole new direction!
Since embracing his calling as a Truck Sales Consultant, Jack has been collecting achievements left, right and centre. After winning both TAFE’s Apprentice of the Year award and the CMV Apprentice of the Year award, it’s safe to say that his career trajectory is only going up!
Looking back on his thrilling career journey, Jack shares:
- His advice for when you aren’t sure of which career path to take.
- The friendly, people-focused nature of the transport industry.
- Career highlights, including truck sales and multiple awards.
- His valuable and dynamic apprenticeship with CMV Group!
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Since starting out in 1934, The CMV Group is now considered one of South Australia’s longest privately-owned family businesses. Unsurprisingly, their family-oriented ideals heavily influence their management style, and their 1800+ employees now make up a large, tight-knit and extremely passionate team.
Split into three main divisions, including CMV Automotive, CMV Trucks, and CMV Farms, the company continues to grow and expand operations along the way. Thus, there’s a huge range of possible roles for potential hires!
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Interview Transcript
Hey, I’m Jack Gazzard and I’m a truck sales consultant here at the Barry Maney Group in Mount Gambier.
So I applied here for an apprenticeship about five years ago trying to get into car mechanics, but I ended up doing car detailing before moving through truck detailing, which sparked my interest in trucks and then started accessory fitting trucks before starting my heavy diesel apprenticeship, which has then progressed now into me finishing my apprenticeship and selling trucks.
Had plans of what I wanted to do with the future and wanted to keep progressing. And I knew doing my trade and learning about trucks was the best way I suppose to build my background and knowledge before I could go on and sell the product.
So I love especially being sort of newer in the truck sales role that I sort of get to plan my own days and run my own ship, I suppose. And I have to be accountable for how I do things and make sure my customers are being looked after. And in the same sense, CMV is being massive in customer support and also looking after their own employees. So it’s one of the benefits of working here.
I think it’d surprise people that just how many other people you get to meet and make friends in the journey like this. The transport industry is just so connected around Australia and all businesses need transport in some form and some businesses will need trucks to support that.
And that’s the thing about transport too, is there are so many like sales or truck coordinating, mechanics, service advising. There’s so many roles, a lot of it I suppose for the audience sake, there’s a lot of jobs in transport. So if you’re thinking about it, just give it a go.
Moving, getting promoted into this role was always something I looked forward to from along much earlier on was always what I was looking towards. And having my first truck sale was pretty big. But what biggest would probably be in the same year, winning the TAFE Apprentice of the Year for our local region and the CMV Apprentice of the Year for the Barry Maney dealership.
I’d say just to, I suppose, be patient. You’re not going to come out of school. I know for me, I wasn’t really sure on what direction I wanted to go and what I wanted to do, especially as I said, I was looking at the car side of things and ended up in trucks.
So you’re not going to know straight away, but you’re also not going to find out if you don’t have a go. Just sort of got to have an idea and have a go at something. If it doesn’t work out, you can move on to the next thing.
