Business is booming for one Ohio golf car business owner.
An Ohio man got into the booming golf car business at just the right time, he said.
“I couldn’t have started a golf cart business at a better time,” Brock Ward told the Bryan Times. “Literally, golf cart demand is through the roof.”
Ward opened his business, T&B Industrial Supply of Archbold, two years ago in Archbold, Ohio. Since then, it’s only grown. He has a 25,000-square-foot building and employs five mechanics.
“We have soundbars or we put stereo systems in, and LED lighting,” Ward told the newspaper. “The one soundbar I carry the speakers all have LED lights in them, dance to the music and everything. I sell a lot of those, and they go Bluetooth to your phone.
“We offer top to bottom complete service, inspection, repairs, customization. Essentially anything under the sun, we’ll do.”
They also refurbish and sell golf cars. And they were starting to stock new cars.
The trend towards street legal cars was a great driver for him.
“Even the new carts that we’re going to be carrying, they come with a big high amperage control system on them,” he told the paper. “Being that a lot of communities are going to allow them to be street legal, I call them golf carts, but technically they are low-speed vehicles. The ones I’ll be carrying will do more than 20 miles per hour, being that most municipalities are allowing low speed vehicles on roads 35 miles per hour or slower.”
Even industry problems point towards the industry’s success.
“The three big manufacturers have essentially shut down their plants because they’ve run out of parts to make new carts, because the demand is so high,” Ward said.
“So what has happened is in the refurb or used market, that’s where it’s at now, because there’s no stock of new,”
