Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2015 29 Untitled-7 1 8/17/15 10:31 AM • Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co. an- nounced the opening of Utility Trailer Sales of Oregon's new location in Redmond, Ore. The 27,000-square-foot full-service dealer - ship sells both new and used trailers and has a paint booth, a large parts retail area and eight service bays. • Great Dane will hold its first Supplier Sum - mit and Innovation Challenge Sept. 28-30 in Savannah, Ga. The summit will provide a forum to celebrate the contributions of the company's key suppliers, including an awards dinner. The Innovation Challenge is designed to unite resources to create new solutions for Great Dane and its customers. • Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, which develops and manufactures safety and braking system technologies for com - mercial vehicles, announced that its new headquarters will remain in Lorain County, Ohio, where the company will move 10 miles from its current Elyria location to a 60-acre site in Avon. • Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems announced that its Bendix On-Line Brake School now serves more than 30,000 regis - tered users from more than two dozen coun- tries. Bendix opened access to its knowledge database and technical resources in March 2013. Registration is free at brake-school. com. • SAF-Holland – a global manufacturer of truck and trailer suspensions, fifth wheels, landing gear and coupling products – an - nounced that its manufacturing facility in Holland, Mich., received Paccar's 2014 50PPM Quality Award for meeting the truck maker's quality standards. • Mack Trucks delivered a commemora - tive Pinnacle tractor – the 25,000th truck equipped with its GuardDog Connect integrated telematics solution – to Cresson, Texas-based 3 Star Daylighting. The proac- tive diagnostics and repair planning solution monitors critical fault codes to help reduce repair times and is standard in Granite, Pin- nacle, Titan and TerraPro models. • Meritor contributed $50,000 to the Wyakin Warrior Foundation, which mentors and provides financial aid to severely wounded veterans pursuing degrees in many areas, in - cluding engineering, business, law, criminal justice, education and computer science. • Shealy Truck Center of Columbia, S.C., celebrated its 75th anniversary as a Mack Trucks dealer. Founded in 1932 by James H. "Bo" Shealy, the company became a Mack dealer in April 1940.