The 2022 Trucks, Parts, Service Distributor of the Year program is underway.
Sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Solutions Network (CVSN), Interstate Billing, Karmak Meritor and High Bar Brands' Minimizer and Premier Manufacturing, this is the 21st year of the Distributor of the Year program.
After announcing our finalists in July, TPS continues the process of learning more about this year's distributors with a conversation with finalist Vander Haag's. This is the second time Vander Haag's has been a finalist for the DOTY award. The company was a prior finalist in 2019.
The answers below were provided by Joe McIntire, parts department manager.
Our business began in 1939 in Sanborn, Iowa, recycling old cars and selling parts from them. John C. Vander Haag Jr. returned from Korea in 1955 and began dismantling later model wrecked automobiles for quality recycled automobile parts. Starting in the 1980s we added medium- and heavy-duty recycled truck parts to our operations and then during the 1990s added new and rebuilt parts to our growing inventory. It was also in the early 1990s that we ceased selling automobile parts and also added service departments to our operations.
We have nine locations now: Spencer, Des Moines and Council Bluffs, Iowa; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Kansas City, Mo.; Winamac and Indianapolis Ind.; Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, Ky. We also are on the construction phase of our tenth location in Dallas, Texas.
We have grown to over 365 team members
