Truck Parts and Service | Heavy Duty Trucking, Aftermarket, Service Info
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10 Industry Focus T R U C K P A R T S & S E R V I C E | M a y 2 0 1 7 May 3-7 HDA Truck Pride Annual Meeting, Orlando June 4-6 Heavy Duty Aftermarket Canada Annual Business Conference, Markham, Ontario Aug. 8-11 ADS International Convention & Trade show, Las Vegas Aug. 24-26 Great American Trucking Show, Dallas Truck Parts & Service Calendar Event information can be submitted at: www.truckpartsandservice.com/story-ideas/ Inland Truck Parts expanding service network Inland Truck Parts & Service has com- pleted four service shop acquisitions. The new facilities are located in Grand Island, Neb., Casper, Wyo., and Okla- homa City, where two are found in the metro area. The company is relocating two of the facilities within their cities at this time and plans to move the others in the coming months. "This recent round of acquisitions is one more testament to our ongoing dedi- cation to expand our full-service repair offerings and our geographic footprint itself," says President and CEO Greg Klein. "We're also proud that as we've continued to grow, we've continued to be the same employee-owned business that our customers know and trust." The expansions bring Inland's service shop operations to a total of 27 locations out of 30 the company currently operates all throughout the Great Plains. Distributor Training Expo Another Success GenNext and the Commercial Vehicle Solutions Network (CVSN) held its second joint Distributor Training Expo last month in Atlanta. This year's event featured 23 suppli- ers training 175 distributor sales people. Distributors attended 13 train- ing sessions (seven one-hour sessions and six 30-minute sessions), a train- ing lunch with their respective buying group and one hour of exclusive access to the exhibit fl oor. For the second consecutive year, attendee response was positive. A fi nal-day survey showed 95 per- cent of attendees viewed the event as very satisfying (64 percent) or some- what satisfying (31 percent), and 82 percent said they were very likely to recommend the event to colleagues. An even higher number, 87 percent, said they would attend again. Meritor Debuts E-Commerce Website Meritor has launched MeritorPartsX- press.com, a new e-commerce platform for U.S. and Canadian customers. The new website replaces MeritorPartsOn- line.com. Meritor says the website improves search functionality offers quick identi- fi cation of replacement parts by Meritor part number and product line, competi- tor part number or keyword. Catalog navigation can be used to correctly iden- tify replacement parts from Meritor's large selection of product families. And to assist in the part-selection process, Meritor says the website hosts more than 40,000 images, including photographs, line drawings and three-dimensional and 360-degree visuals of Meritor's fam- ily of aftermarket products. "Our goal is to deliver a best-in- class, time-saving and user-friendly website that reduces the amount of effort needed for customers to identify the exact replacement parts they need," says Brett Penzkofer, vice president, Af- termarket, North America for Meritor.