Meeting our industry’s best: A quick look at 2018 DOTY finalist DeCarolis Heavy Duty Parts

Two weeks ago Truck Parts & Service released its finalists for the 17th annual Distributor of the Year award. All of the finalists this year were again selected through open industry nominations, and over the next several months, we will be regularly featuring each business on this website and on the pages of Truck Parts & Service.

Those features begin this week as we check in with 2018 Distributor of the Year finalist DeCarolis Heavy Duty Parts.

This is the first nomination for DeCarolis Heavy Duty Parts  for the Distributor of the Year award. The answers below were provided by DeCarolis General Manager Greg Rawleigh. 

When was your business founded, and by whom?

In 1938, Louis DeCarolis, Sr., bought a truck and used it to transport migrant workers to and from farmers’ fields. It did not take long for Clapp’s Baby Food to ask him to haul produce to their processing plant. Out of these modest beginnings, he created a small carting company in 1938, known as DeCarolis Trucking Company, and set in place a plan to add other transportation resources.

How many locations do you have? (Please list the cities)