KULM SERVICE - Key Persons
Pesek acknowledges there is a "possibility" for expansion. "We'd like to grow." One area of potential expansion is a parts inventory.
"We're looking at some short lines," Pesek acknowledges, referring to equipment that is not manufactured by the large farm equipment manufacturers. He says they could add another technician without adding to the facility. "I don't think there are any doors that are closed," Pesek says. "Anything that comes at us is an opportunity."
Jeff Gunderson, 63, the service manager, says he enjoys hearing about new customers beyond those he'd served at Titan since moving to Kulm with his wife in 1976. They fell in love with the town and stayed.
"I wasn't working for customers, I was working with friends," Gunderson says. In the wake of the closing, he appreciates that Titan offered to allow him to work from home and work remotely via computer. But "the interaction with the farmers would be gone and I would have no interest in that," he says. "Now I'm working with the grandsons of the people I started working for."