Jon Vandehey Nominated for Nationwide Truck Vendor of the Yr Award – NADA

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By Juliet Guerra, NADA Director of Media Relations

Jon Vandehey, president and CEO of Mid-State Truck Service in Marshfield, Wis., is among the nominees for 2022 Truck Vendor of the Yr – a nationwide award that acknowledges commercial-truck sellers for enterprise efficiency, trade and civic management and group service.

As with most family-owned companies, Vandehey started working at his father’s dealership at an early age. From washing vehicles and mowing the garden on the dealership’s Marshfield location as a younger teen to turning into president and CEO in 2003, Vandehey has grown up within the dealership and the dealership has grown underneath his management.

Between 2006 and 2020, the enterprise expanded by buying three Wisconsin-based dealerships and two Minnesota-based areas. As we speak, Mid-State Truck Service consists of full-service gross sales, service and components services and dealerships in Wisconsin and Minnesota with 280 staff representing Navistar, IC Bus, Isuzu, Diamond Coach and Collins Bus. Mid-State has grown from annual quantity of $1.5 million in 1965 to latest volumes in extra of $150 million.

“Mid-State Truck Service has prioritized service since its inception,” Vandehey mentioned. “Even within the early years with one small quantity location, our father acknowledged that delivering distinctive customer support differentiates ourselves from our competitors. That’s why he was insistent that ‘service’ be in our identify.”

The dedication to service has led to successful quite a few nationwide awards for the vendor and the dealership from Navistar, Idealease and IC Bus Corp., in addition to being named Enterprise of the Yr by the Chippewa Nation Enterprise Council and the Plover Space Enterprise Affiliation.

Vandehey can be a member of the Wisconsin Car & Truck Sellers Affiliation Truck Council, the place he efficiently fought to repeal the Wisconsin gross sales tax on FET in 2016, is co-chair of the Gross sales & Advertising Committee of the OEM Vendor Council, and serves on the Imaginative and prescient 2025 Committee.

“Jon has assumed many management roles representing all sellers throughout North America with our OEM,” mentioned Cumberland Worldwide Vans CEO Terry Minor, who nominated Vandehey. “However it’s what he does inside his native communities and his contributions to the kids and fewer advantaged inside these communities that make Jon the perfect choice for this recognition.”

Vandehey and Mid-State Truck Service help quite a few charitable organizations, together with Toys for Tots with its Truckers for Tots program, YMCA and Boys & Women Golf equipment. And the dealership donated autos with a wheel chair elevate to each Regional Enterprise for Adults and Youngsters (REACH) and Chippewa River Industries, which each help people with disabilities.

Most not too long ago, Vandehey and his spouse, Annette, gave their largest contribution to their group of Marshfield – a $1.25 million present to finish the Vandehey Waters-Marshfield Municipal Pool, which opened in July 2021.

“Rising up in a big household with a decent funds, free or low-cost group belongings like parks, the general public library and the municipal pool had been the first technique of recreation. Dwelling a number of blocks from the municipal pool, many summer time days had been spent there with my siblings. It’s with that background that Vandehey Waters was born,” he mentioned.

The nationwide Truck Vendor of the Yr award is sponsored by ATD, Heavy Responsibility Trucking journal and Procede Software program.

The opposite nominees are Eric Jorgensen, president and CEO of JX Truck Middle in Hartland, Wis., and Kari Rihm, president and CEO of Rihm Kenworth in South St. Paul, Minn.

The nominees had been chosen by state, metro and nationwide affiliation leaders. A panel of judges from Indiana College’s Kelley College of Enterprise will consider the nominees and choose a winner.

The winner will likely be introduced throughout this 12 months’s ATD Present opening basic session on Thursday, March 10 from 4-5pm. ATD Present 2022 runs from Thursday, March 10 by Sunday, March 13, 2022 on the Encore Las Vegas. The four-day occasion runs concurrently with NADA Present 2022.

For extra info and to register for ATD Present 2022, go to www.atdshow.org.

That is the third article in a four-part collection highlighting the nominees for 2022 Truck Vendor of the Yr.



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