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6 Industry Focus Performance Truck has relocated its Beaumont, Texas full-service dealership, and has completed a major remodel of its Houston Kenworth dealership. Badger Utility, Inc. has expanded its services in the North Central region to include Fargo, N.D. and expects to soon expand into the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. New England Truck Sales & Services, Inc. has rebranded itself as Black Rock Truck Group after purchasing two Agar Truck Sales facilities. Truck Country plans to nearly double the size of its Dubuque, Iowa dealer- ship by early 2016. Construction is underway on a new nearly 39,000-sq.-ft. facility for Peter- bilt of Lincoln, Neb. West Sacramento, Calif.-based Riverview International Trucks has completed an eight month remodel and expansion. Lower Great Lakes Kenworth has opened a 10,000 sq.-ft. parts and ser- vice facility in Lafayette, Ind. Stahl Peterbilt has added a mobile parts store to its parts department in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Kenworth of Cincinnati has relocated to a new 45,000-sq.-ft. facility. Aaron Martin of Truck Centers of Arkansas took home Grand Champion honors at the Arkansas Technician Championship annual contest last month in Rogers, Ark. Martin won three skills categories in the event, and co-worker Chad Pinkley nabbed two. Columbia, S.C.-based Mack dealer Shealy Truck Center recently cel- ebrated its 75 th anniversary as a Mack dealer. T R U C K P A R T S & S E R V I C E | J u l y 2 0 1 5 Clarence Oosterhoff, Dan Orser, Matthew Giesbrecht and Tyler Kronebusch, from Prince George, British Columbia-based Babine Truck & Equipment, were named the inaugural 2015 Mack Masters champions last month at Mack's Customer Care Center in Allentown, Pa. The award capped nearly six months of competition that saw the Babine group rise above 262 other teams across Mack's North American dealership network. In all, 991 Mack dealership employees from 171 different dealerships entered the contest. Bayview Kenworth has purchased an existing independent parts and service dealership in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and converted it into a new 13,000-sq.-ft. Kenworth parts and service dealership. Lakeside International Trucks has broken ground on a new 55,400 sq. ft. full- service dealership in Madison, Wis. Dealer News EPA Releases Phase 2 Emission Standards The EPA and DOT have announced plans for Phase 2 of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Fuel Effi ciency Standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles. Phase 2 of the program would "sig- nifi cantly reduce carbon emissions and improve fuel effi ciency of heavy-duty vehicles, helping to address the chal- lenges of global climate change and energy security," according to the EPA. The proposed standards will begin in model year 2018 for trailers and 2021 for tractors and culminate in vehicle- wide — engine, truck and trailer — standards for model year 2027 vehicles. "Fuel is an enormous expense for our industry – and carbon emissions carry an enormous cost for our planet," says Bill Graves, ATA president and CEO. "That's why our industry support- ed the Obama Administration's historic fi rst round of greenhouse gas and fuel effi ciency standards for medium and large trucks and why we support the aims of this second round of standards."