Mick Turner of Turner’s Engineering is your epitomic entrepreneur. With a portfolio of business and commercial interests encompassing manufacturing, equipment hire and sales, heavy haulage, hospitality and industrial property, Mick has made succeeding at whatever you do, into a way of life. Mick moved to Nerang in South East Queensland in his early 20s buying the local service station and set about forging a career in the automotive mechanical repair industry. At the same time he took on distribution rights for the Danarm brand of chainsaws. Mick then bought an Italian Ansaldo tractor and a Diamond Rio truck and diversified into timber snigging and grain haulage. He soon had his own fabrication workshop where he’d specialise in doing whatever it was you needed done. Over time, Mick’s reputation for ingenuity and his ability to make, fix or improve anything was surpassed only by his business sense. Under Mick’s direction, Turner’s Engineering took on projects ranging from the construction of Gold Coast hotels to the manufacture and standardisation of greyhound track starter’s boxes and the electric rabbit. In addition to these, Turner’s were engaged to construct front loading barges for the Gold Coast waterways and even designed, built and installed crematorium furnaces. Mick recognised an opportunity in the civil contracting, earthmoving and construction industries. With his own brand of tenacity, Turner’s Engineering established themselves as a market leader in…