An impressive group of dealers responsible for more than 110 points of sale across the United States make up the finalists for the 2025 Successful Dealer Award.
Sponsored by Automann, Interstate Billing Service, National Truck Protection, Premium 2000 and Procede Software, this year’s Successful Dealer Award program will once again celebrate North America’s best commercial truck dealer operations for continued market excellence. The program evaluates dealers in several areas, including customer service, sales proficiency, employee and customer training, marketing, community involvement, industry stewardship and more.
Now in its 13th year, the award has recognized many incredible dealer groups, and this year will be no different.
Finalists for the 2025 award are Dobbs Truck Group, Selking International, The Larson Group (TLG), Truckworx and Vanguard Truck Centers.
The selection of this year’s finalists is the conclusion of a four-plus month process that began in March, when Trucks, Parts, Service opened the nomination period for the award. Interested parties from across the trucking sector were asked and encouraged to nominate their best dealer partners for the annual honor, and from March through May more than 40 dealer operations were nominated — including two prior winners and eight prior finalists.
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In June, those same operations were then asked to submit a lengthy business questionnaire that evaluates the performance and scope of their operations, and the five dealers with the strongest responses were chosen as finalists last week.
This year’s finalists are a well-rounded group, representing, Autocar, Battle Motors, Hino, International, Isuzu, Kenworth, Mack, Peterbilt, Tico and Volvo. Vanguard Truck Centers is the largest group with 39 locations across 11 states. Selking International is the smallest with 11 Midwestern stores.
TLG and Truckworx are the only returning participants, as TLG was a prior finalist in 2018 and 2019 and Truckworx in 2019.
“We are once again humbled and grateful to the trucking industry for their participation and support of the Successful Dealer Award,” says Lucas Deal, TPS editor and content director. “This year’s finalists are an incredible group and we can’t wait to learn more about them and share what we learn with our audience. To consistently ask our industry for their input on trucking’s strongest dealer operations and continue to receive dealers like these has been tremendous.
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“We offer a sincere thank you to anyone who nominated a dealer, as well as all dealers who were nominated but not selected as a finalist. What you do is so important our industry and our daily lives and we thank you.”
Finalists for this year’s award will be profiled on TPS in the months ahead, with the 2025 Successful Dealer Award to be announced during the program’s exclusive dealer summit on Sept. 30, in Nashville.
Attendance to the Successful Dealer Award Summit is limited to current award finalists and prior winners. The two-day event is a meld of high-level industry presentations, open business discussion and elite networking opportunities. Award finalists are provided all-inclusive registration for the event, while all onsite expenses are covered for prior award finalists.
Stay tuned to TPS for more about this year’s finalists and the 2025 Successful Dealer Award program.
