Aatac

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A & A Truck and Auto Center, Inc., (trade name AATAC) was incorporated in 1978. The business was located at 3012 Little Rock Road in Charlotte, North Carolina. The major business at that time was used auto and truck sales. The business was actually a continuation of A & A Used Cars and Parts founded by James C. Allison Sr. in 1961. A & A also bought, installed and sold dump bodies, hoists, wreckers, and carrier bodies at that time. The carrier bodies were designed by Jim, manufactured for A & A Truck and Auto Center by a dump body manufacturer, and sold under the trade name AATAC, an acronym for the legal name.AATAC's sales of carriers grew significantly through 1982 when AATAC's wrecker supplier canceled its contract with AATAC stating that the carriers would be a conflict of interest with the new 'wheel lift' unit that they had introduced. As a result, AATAC was forced to find another supplier for wrecker bodies. During this same time, Jim designed a new wheel lift and had these wrecker/wheel lift units manufactured for AATAC by a local towing equipment manufacturer.Shortly after this, AATAC's contract with its carrier manufacturer expired in 1983 and a plant was leased at 8600 Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte to begin its own in house manufacture of AATAC carriers. The first carrier units were produced by AATAC within 60 days. Four models were initially introduced and extremely well received in the market place.

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