With locations stretching from suburban Chicago to Scranton, Pa., M&K Truck Centers is one of the most recognized truck dealer groups in the Northern U.S.
Founded by CEO Ron Meyering as a used truck dealership in Michigan in 1989, M&K Truck Centers has cultivated a reputation as a dedicated, service-based operation, a dealer group willing to consider and invest in any business opportunity that may strengthen its relationship with its customers.
It’s a business that knows how to expand its footprint without losing its touch — growing, both, with and for its customers.
Looking at the company’s impressive growth trajectory, Meyering says the company’s size today sometimes surprises even him. M&K didn’t enter the new truck space until 2002 and didn’t commit to an aggressive expansion strategy until 2007. Meyering remembers evaluating the dealer space at the time and determining “in order to be successful, we realized we were going to have to be a lot larger than we were. There was no great future for what we were.”
A two-location dealer at the time, M&K made its next acquisition in 2010 and hasn’t slowed down since. This year it added nine stores and an e-commerce website after announcing seven acquisitions in 2018. The company now operates 28 facilities across five states, supports Volvo, Mack, Hino and Isuzu trucks, several more trailer brands, employs a staff of more than 1,000 and in 2022 for the first time has been named a finalist for the Successful Dealer Award.
It is the workforce Meyering immediately turns to when asked to explain the company’s momentous growth. M&K’s leadership team may have developed its first expansion plan, but once the company’s associates were put into action the business took off.
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