Truck Parts and Service | Heavy Duty Trucking, Aftermarket, Service Info
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6 Industry Focus T R U C K P A R T S & S E R V I C E | M a r c h 2 0 1 4 Kyle Treadway, president, dealer principal and legal counsel at Kenworth Sales Com- pany, was named the 2014 Dealer of the Year by the American Truck Dealers (ATD) at its annual convention in New Orleans in January. Trailer Wizards has expanded its Cornwall, Ontario location. Truman Ingram, utility and municipal ac- count manager for Montgomery, Ala.-based Four Star Freightliner, was named an Elite Winner for 2013 during the Leland James Sales Achievement Program. Travis Body & Trailer, Inc. of Houston has named Highway Trailer Sales, Inc., its newest independent dealer in the Kansas City area. Nashville, Tenn.-based Nacarato Volvo has been named the truck maker's North American Dealer of the Year. Indianapolis Stoops Freightliner has launched a new new alternative fuel web- site, StoopsAltFuels.com. Allstate Peterbilt Group's South Saint Paul location has been named the 2013 Peterbilt Medium-Duty Dealer of the Year. JX Enterprises celebrated its 44 th anniver- sary in January. The Walker Group, a division of Wabash National Corporation, announces the addi- tion of Opperman & Son, Inc. to its dealer network. Houston-based Doggett Truck Group has acquired three Freightliner and one Western Star dealerships from the Opus Kane Truck Group (San Antonio and Laredo) and Eddy Vaughn Freightliner (McAllen, Texas). Dealer News Correction In the Truck Parts & Service Distributor of the Year special section released at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week (HDAW), Midway Truck Parts was not included in the list of previous winners. Midway Truck Parts shared the 2005 award with Point Spring & Driveshaft. Truck Parts & Ser- vice would like to apologize for the mistake. Meritor is taking its show on the road. The company is rolling out two mobile service vans, which will soon embark on a fi ve-city tour to help train customers and technicians on Meritor's products. Meritor says the vans have already helped train upwards of 250 techni- cians this calendar year, and will do fi ve citywide training across the U.S. this year. "This is a milestone for us," says Walt Sherbourne, senior director, fi eld sales, North America. "We anticipate training well over a couple thousand (technicians) this year." Each of the Nissan high-roof NV3500 trucks, wrapped in unique Meritor trailer decals, will offer hands-on training to service manag- ers, shop supervisors, service techni- cians, maintenance directors, drivers and dealer-fl eet trainers for drive- train and undercarriage aftermarket components. Meritor debuts mobile training van Pro Heavy Duty, Inc., an aftermarket buying group based in Ft. Wright, Ky., is announcing the formation and structure of a new group targeting the independent aftermarket heavy- duty parts segment. Pro Heavy Duty will represent independent wholesale distributors and service specialists throughout North America. John Stoeckinger, president at Pro Heavy Duty, says the group has been formed to provide the best buying group solution in the heavy-duty after- market arena, and to provide improved profi tability to its membership. "Pro Heavy Duty is taking a dif- ferent approach to the aftermarket in how we partner with our suppliers," says Stoeckinger. "We continue to want to partner with, and structure programs that allow its supplier partners to gain market share." Pro Heavy Duty forecasts to grow to 50-plus members and 175 loca- tions in the group in 2014. New buying group formed