Roger Dyson’s Johan is at your service
Leading recovery vehicle bodybuilder Roger Dyson Group has strengthened its team by signing a new international star player!
Swedish-born Johan Stolt has joined the Droitwich-based company as Aftersales Manager and brings a wealth of experience to his new post.
Johan will now be using the management skills he has developed in his previous positions with much larger organisations, and introducing new processes to improve the efficiency of the Dyson operation.
“The service team here have been doing a great job but there’s definitely huge potential to grow this side of our business,” he says. “We want operators to understand that we don’t just sell them equipment and then forget about them – we will do everything we can to help our customers keep their vehicles and equipment working productively throughout their life.
“So customers should watch out for a range of new initiatives from Roger Dyson, including ‘package deal’ service contracts, and a ‘one-stop shop’ arrangement whereby we’ll not only service and maintain their recovery equipment, but the truck chassis on which it’s mounted too. We’ll also be highlighting the fact that our mobile teams can service and maintain vehicles at the operator’s premises, to remove the hassle of bringing a truck to our Droitwich workshop.”
Born and raised on the east coast of Sweden, near Gothenburg, Johan came to England as a teenager, with his merchant seaman father, in 1985. He decided to stay and tried his hand at various jobs before joining a plant hire company, starting out as a mechanic and rising to become Service Manager.
His cv also includes a spell as a sales engineer with a hydraulic systems manufacturer whose main customers were the Royal Air Force and Royal Portbury Dock, and another with plant machinery manufacturer Komatsu, for which he ran a team of field service engineers providing maintenance and repair cover for excavators, diggers and dumpers across the country.
In 2004 Johan was ‘head-hunted’ by Exel Engineering, to look after its fleet of trucks working from a network of depots in the midlands, and a year later he transferred to leading Volvo truck dealer Hartshorne, when the company acquired Exel’s engineering division.
“I enjoyed my five years with Hartshorne and Volvo but it was time for a change, and I can put my experience of both the truck and hydraulics industries to good use for Roger Dyson,” he explains.
