Truck Parts and Service | Heavy Duty Trucking, Aftermarket, Service Info
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8 Industry Focus T R U C K P A R T S & S E R V I C E | S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 4 Hadley has hired Tim Lampen as fl eet/dealer account manager. Steve Davis has retired from Phillips Industries, where he served as national OEM/OES truck sales manager. Fontaine Fifth Wheel has hired Chuck McCann to serve as key account manager for the Midwest region. Mack Trucks has named Martin Kleker regional vice president for the U.S. Central Region. Ox Bodies, Inc. announces Brenda Walters has joined the company as site controller. Betts Truck Parts & Service has promoted Ruben Gutierrez to the new position of director of service. DuraClass has hired Ray Collins as plant manager for its manufacturing facility in Tishomingo, Miss., and Jeffery Terry as its new continuous improvement engineer. Spartan Motors has named Daryl Adams as its chief operating offi cer. Ken Kelley has been named group president of Fontaine Fifth Wheel. Ox Bodies has hired Michael Yi as product designer and Robert Keeton as product design engineer. Rugby Manufacturing has hired Gary Phelps to its inside sales team. People In The News Lampen McCann Walters Gutierrez Kelley Phelps VIPAR Heavy Duty has been busy in recent weeks. In July the heavy-duty marketing and buying group was named an approved supplier for The Penray Compa- nies and joined forces with GenNext HD as a corporate sponsor. It also celebrated its 25 th anniversary on July 31. VIPAR was formed when 17 independent distributors came together in 1989. The organization has now grown to 125 distributors who operate more than 500 locations throughout the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. "The growth and success of VIPAR Heavy Duty is a testament to the original vision and inspiration of these entrepreneurial founding distributors, as well as the contributions of all of our other distributors since then," says Steve Crowley, president of VIPAR Heavy Duty. "VIPAR Heavy Duty has succeeded by helping our dis- tributors be more competitive in their local market and by providing resources, such as technology, marketing, communications and many other value-added solutions, to make them more profi table." In addition to its corporate news, the organization also has added Tri Cities Truck Parts as its newest member. Located in Muscle Shoals, Ala., Tri Cities Truck Parts serves customers with parts for Class 6-8 trucks in northwestern Alabama, south central Tennessee and northeastern Mississippi. "We are pleased to welcome Tri Cities Truck Parts to the VIPAR Heavy Duty family of distributors," says Jim Pennig, vice president of business development for VIPAR Heavy Duty. VIPAR caps busy month ConMet debuts online resources Consolidated Metco (ConMet) launched a new online catalog which follows the release of ConMet Hub Training 2.0 earlier this spring. The online catalog features more than 60 ConMet hubs, including hub/cup/stud, PreSet, and PreSet Plus assemblies for both tractors and trailers; more than a dozen varieties of CastLite, TruTurn, and standard cast brake drums; and ConMet Premium Seals, Bearings and spindle nuts, the company says. "As more countermen, owner/operators, and maintenance managers use the web and mobile devices to fi nd information and training on heavy-duty products, ConMet is meeting their needs," says Denise Reeves, vice president of marketing at ConMet. "By presenting this information in such a user friendly format, we intend to drive sales of our products through our dealer and distributor networks." RTA adds new members Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas, International Tire Repair Solutions Inc., Canada, and Quality Truck Treads, Claxton, Ga. are the newest members of the Retread Tire Association (RTA). "We continue to be very pleased and gratifi ed at the amount of support our exciting new association continues to receive from retreaders and others in the retread and tire industries," says Harvey Brodsky, managing director of the Retread Tire Association. "We know that their support will be more than justifi ed as we continue our efforts on behalf of retreaders, tire repair companies, new tire manufacturers, tire recyclers, suppliers, trucking companies and others interested in the well being and betterment of the retread industry worldwide."