Freightliner Trucks in support of NASCAR Race to Green® pledged to plant 1,200 trees with the support of the Arbor Day Foundation. During the month of April, for every Freightliner-transported driver who won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™ race, Freightliner Trucks pledged to plant trees [...]

Advantage Funding announced it hired Andrea Seitz as their new Marketing Manager. Seitz brings over 12+ years of marketing experience combined in product management, branding, sales generation programs and direct marketing. Seitz will be responsible for supporting Advantage Funding’s national brand identity, direct marketing and public relations as well [...]

Continuing the enhancement of personal interaction with customers, FleetNet America, Inc. announces recent additions to the Customer Solutions and Sales teams. In January, FleetNet announced organization changes to better enable the company to provide solutions to improve customers’ business results. These changes led to the [...]

The International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum has announced nine industry leaders selected for induction into the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame as the Class of 2013: Marc De Wilde (Gentbrugge, Belgium), John H. Glass (Morris Plains, N.J.), Marvin R. [...]

Beacon Funding Corporation, an equipment financing company specializing in the tow industry, partnered with Agero, formerly Cross Country Automotive Services, to offer Agero Service Providers enhanced truck financing options. In efforts to make the tow truck equipment financing process easy and low maintenance, they created [...]

Considered one of the industry’s veteran wheel and tire professionals, Shelly Urwiler has been named national sales manager for custom-built wheel manufacturer American Force Wheels Inc., headquartered in Miami, Fla. “We’re excited to welcome Shelly to our team to help American Force realize its true [...]

Advantage Funding has announced its new AA Credit Tier commercial vehicle financing and leasing program. The program is designed to offer bank rate financing to new and existing well qualified customers. With the launch of this new program, Advantage Funding offers credit programs for bankable [...]

American Recovery Association (ARA) and National Finance Adjusters (NFA) have announced their merger into one trade association.  The new trade association will move forward under the name of the American Recovery Association (ARA). As part of the comprehensive agreement, American Recovery Management Solutions (ARMS) joined [...]

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America, Inc. (MFTA) has announced that Mutsumi Miwa is returning to its U.S. headquarters as chief financial officer. Mr. Miwa first served MFTA as its Treasurer, starting on April 1, 1995. In September 1997, he was promoted to CFO, and held [...]

Hino Trucks’ latest round of accolades from J.D. Power and Associates includes a five-for-five consecutive highest ranking for the Hino medium-duty engine. The current awards are: Hino Trucks ranks “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Conventional Medium Duty Engines”, five years in a row and Hino [...]