Meet your Coaches
David Justice
Owner Repair Shop of Tomorrow
Repair Shop of Tomorrow founder David Justice has been an auto care dealer for over 35 years. He grew up in the family business working for his father. At a young age David purchased his father’s business and went on his own. Over the years David had multiple Shell Gas stations.
In 2001, David got out of the gasoline business and bought an old closed BP station with 3 bays, He soon realized he could no longer operate his shop the “way it had been operated” over the past years.
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Within a short time he added 5 more bays to Parkway Auto Care. In 2009, David built an 8500 square foot store in a neighboring city from the ground up producing over 1 million dollars in the first 12 months. Then in 2012 he built a 10,000 square foot store again from the ground up in another neighboring city producing over 1.2 million dollars in just 12 months time. The 3 stores were Express Tire locations and grossed over 5 million a year. David was elected and served a 2 year term on the NAPA National Auto Care Advisory Council from 2012-2013.
In search of a way to better manage labor hours, David created Labor Profit Management. LPM is a web based time management system for your business. Labor Profit Management has been featured in the June 2014 issue of Ratchet Wrench magazine. LPM was also featured in the August 2014 issue of Shop Owner Magazine. In June of 2013 NAPA launched Dave’s LPM solution nationally and since then David has been helping shop owners across the country create more net labor profits by having them measure and manage their labor dollars with his product.
David was a featured speaker at our national NAPA expo event held in Las Vegas. David presented 5 seminars to over 3500 people on how to manage your labor factor.
In 2016 David received an offer from the largest automotive chain in the industry and sold his 3 stores in September of 2016.
Once again David had the opportunity to follow his passion of helping shop owners around the country, this is how Repair Shop of Tomorrow came about. This is a complete comprehensive program for our dealer network encompassing done for you marketing, SOP, and labor and profit tracking complete with accountability coaching that creates real world results.
David has been happily married for over 20 years to his wife Tracy. He is the proud father of 5 children and a grandfather of three.
Ron Tinner
Owner Sparks Tire & Auto, Coo, rsot
I grew up with a Grandfather who was a mechanical wizard, if it had an engine/motor he could diagnose and repair it. Made sure from an early age that I was always a part of what he was doing. At 16 I went to work for Firestone, soon realized that was not the place for me. Went to work for a small independent auto repair shop called Sparks Tune Up.
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Started as a lube tech, performed estimated average of 20 oil changes per day 7 days a week. Worked my way up the ladder over the course of 3 years, became lead tune up tech. By age 22 had my Master Certification with ASE. Continued my education, in 1993 became L1 Certified. Convinced the shop owner to go “Full Service” in 1993. We changed the shop name to Sparks Tire and Auto. Over the next 2 years became affiliated with NAPA Autocare program and AAA. In 1995 I became partners with shop owner and in 2000 I bought him out. In 2004 moved the shop from its 3 bay 1400 sq ft location to our current 10 bay 10,000 sq ft location.
As did everyone in 2008-2009 we experienced the Great Recession, it took its toll. We managed to keep our crew in tact and weathered the storm. In 2011 as we struggled to get back to the top of business as we knew it, I had the pleasure of serving on the NAPA National council. While serving I was blessed to meet Dave Justice. We became friends and business allies. He introduced me/my business to many amazing practices that made us grow and become profitable. I served on the CCPN board for the Autocare Association for 6 years where I met many industry leaders and made many friends. I quickly learned that to reach the level of success I was after, I needed a coach. Someone to both teach me what to do and to hold me accountable for getting it done. As the years went by, Dave and I became better friends and I hired Dave to be my business coach. Best move ever. RSOT changed my life, both personal and business. The education that I got from Dave, the push to Implement it and the respect I received when I did it, made me want to be the best I could be. I wanted to have the shop that everyone around me was looking to be. Today I am blessed to have reached that level of success. My daughter works with me daily, my wife was able to retire from the business, I have 7 amazing staff members who live to make “OUR TEAM” the best it can be. I have managed, with the help of many, to get to a level of business success that affords me the opportunity to now go out and coach/help others that ARE where I WAS.
I am proud to be a part of RSOT and have the honor of helping other independent shop owners reach their goals in both business and financial success. My goal is to help others reach the financial and mental freedom to work ON their business, not IN it.
Roy Foster
Roy Foster’s Automotive, Owner, RSOT Coach
Roy Foster is the President of Roy Foster’s Automotive, which has been in business since 1947. He has served on numerous groups and councils for both his community and industry. He served on the NAPA AutoCare Advisory Council from 2018-2019, past President for the Reno-Sparks NAPA AutoCare Business Development Group, Western Division ASE-Technician of the Year in 2011, AAA Top Shop Finalist in 2018-2019, and is proud to be Napa Gold Certified.
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His community involvement includes helping create a NAPA AutoCare exhibit for the Reno, Nevada Children’s Discovery Museum, helping local veterans, and has done several Car Giveaways. He is committed to mentoring his employees, apprentice technicians, and local high school and college students interested in the automotive industry. He has been a Scout Leader for Boy Scouts of America, coached youth baseball, and has served in Church Leadership for 25 Years.
Roy is happily married to Jacqueline Foster; they have seven children and six grandchildren.