Learn about the concept of profit centering for a commercial truck parts department. Learn how to use a variety of templates and metrics to evaluate gross profit and expenses for opportunities to improving profitability.  Evaluate the parts to labor ratio, reconcile the parts inventory between the dealer management system and financial statements…

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (June 4, 2010) - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden this morning toured and met with employees of K. Neal International Trucks, Inc., a commercial-truck dealership and truck parts supplier in Hyattsville, Md. After touring the facility with Stephen Neal, the dealership's president and CEO, President…

Not every centennial is a cause for celebration. Last year, the federal excise tax (FET) reached the 100-year mark, and America’s truck dealers can all agree that this onerous tax has outlived its usefulness. The FET was originally imposed in 1917 for a noble cause — to help pay for World War I. Although the last American veteran of that…

December 2020 marks a time that most truck dealers didn’t expect to see in the earlier part of the year: strong growth. We have been through the most turbulent and challenging year of our lives. And we’ve risen to the occasion. I’ve told fellow truck dealers that if we showed resilience and optimism through these times, we would be able to look…

Weather folklore famously characterizes March as coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb. This is because the marked change of weather tends to come in rough and turbulent, but then goes out calm and pleasant. Let us see if the same can be said of the truck industry's seasonal pattern this year. If it was any indication, this period…

More than 400 franchised auto dealers weighed in with Washington lawmakers earlier this week on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) effort to end the discounts that customers can negotiate when financing a car or truck through a dealership.

In this webinar, Douglas Greenhaus, NADA/ATD’s V.P. for Regulatory Affairs, moderates a discussion between Jed Mandel of the Engine and Truck Manufacturers Association, Sean Waters of Daimler Trucks, and Jodie Teuton of Kenworth of Louisiana on how the CARB’s Truck and Bus Programs could impact your operations.

Dick Witcher, chairman of the American Truck Dealers (ATD) urged the nation's commercial truck dealers to get more involved in their association and build relationships with their members of Congress.

WASHINGTON (March 24, 2010) - The winners of the American Truck Dealers (ATD) Commercial Truck of the Year for 2010 will be announced at the ATD Convention & Expo on Sunday, April 25 in Orlando, Fla. Two winners-a medium- and heavy-duty truck-will be selected from a list of seven nominees. The medium-duty contest is new this year…

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union went on strike at Chrysler-parent Stellantis's largest assembly plant on Monday, hitting the automaker's profitable RAM 1500 pickup truck production in a major expansion of the more than month-old strike.