Determine if your commercial truck service department is operating at its highest potential by learning how to translate facility utilization metrics. Gain the ability to formulate service department improvement plans using the key terms of technician proficiency, effective labor rate and facility potential.

Suspend the Federal Excise Tax on Heavy-Duty Trucks   ISSUE During the pandemic, truck-manufacturing, dealership and supplier jobs in the U.S. have been hard hit by government-ordered closures and the economic uncertainty, causing fleets to delay or cancel truck orders. Heavy-duty truck sales are predicted…

INDUSTRY ALLIANCE FORMED TO ADVOCATE FOR REPEAL OF THE OUTDATED FEDERAL EXCISE TAX ON HEAVY-DUTY TRUCKS SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 25, 2019) – Trade groups, equipment manufacturers and businesses representing broad sectors of the trucking industry announced the launch of a new coalition, Modernize the Truck Fleet (MTF). The industry group will work…

Through the first half of the year, commercial truck sales fell by 29.2% compared with the first half of 2019. Heavy-duty truck sales during the first six months of 2020 totaled 82,648, down 38.7% compared with the same period in 2019. Medium-duty truck sales fell as well, declining by 18.6% compared with the first half of 2019. In June, Class 8…

In the first half of the year, commercial truck sales totaled 231,813 units—up 28.5% from the COVID-19- impacted first-half 2020. Medium-duty truck sales topped 120,000 units, and heavy-duty truck sales exceeded 111,000, increasing 23% and 35.1%, respectively. Sales rose because of solid freight demand, as many sectors of the economy…

Develop the tools to dispel three key commercial truck service profitability myths; that a large quantity of service customers is the only way to succeed, that labor rates remain constant because they cannot change, and that basic service resources cannot be used to guide you in a better direction. Learn how to complete and use a repair order…

Commercial vehicle sales were stellar in 2018. On the whole, sales of Class 4-8 trucks were up 17.5% compared to 2017. Class 4-7 truck sales were up 6.5% and Class 8 truck sales were up by a whopping 30.3% compared to 2017. Throughout most of the year, manufacturers struggled to keep up with customer demand for Class 8 trucks, and order…

The National Automobile Dealers Association has named Allen Phibbs as director of the NADA/American Truck Dealers Academy. He began his new duties on Aug. 30.

Barbara Robinson, director of the American Truck Dealers (ATD), has recently become a Certified Association Executive (CAE), which is the highest professional credential in the association industry.

Dick Witcher, outgoing chairman of the American Truck Dealers (ATD), urged dealers to meet with their members of Congress as "the first step in combating regulatory burdens," and that the work of securing the future of dealerships begins with each of them.