Red Rock Garage specializes in working on large trucks and motor homes and literally began in the parking lot.

The owner of Red Rock Garage, Dennis Thomas, explained the building wasn’t finished in time for our opening, so we set up shop in the parking lot, expecting it to last only a few weeks. “But it turned out, the first year and a half we worked out of my race trailer,” Thomas said.

Working in the parking lot was not without its challenges, but also led to some great business startup stories. Like the time when we were changing the oil in a large semi rig when a gust of wind blew the oil everywhere but in the oil pan. Or in the summer when the only shade came from underneath the big rigs and in the winter when we needed a smug pot to keep warm. 

Thomas grew up in the trucking industry, his father was a truck driver and he spent the first 15 years of his career working his way up from mechanic to shop foreman at a Northern Utah trucking company.