American Truck Dealers News Updates

Nearly 100 truck dealer representatives will gather in Washington for the American Truck Dealers Legislative Fly-In June 22-23, says ATD Chairman Kevin Holmes.

A longtime advocate in Washington for trucking stakeholders, Gelb replaced Jed Mandel, who ended a quarter of a century as EMA president in September 2025.

The federal excise tax landed on the statute books in 1917 and remains there, crimping sales of new trucks and inhibiting the industry’s ongoing push toward greater environmental progress.

American Truck Dealers President Jacqueline Gelb during her first year on the job saw her members score major regulatory wins, and she’s eyeing another Capitol Hill victory in the year ahead.

Earlier this month, nearly 100 representatives of medium- and heavy-duty truck dealers gathered in Washington, advocating for common-sense policies supporting the trucking industry.

Gelb succeeds Laura Perrotta, who left American Truck Dealers earlier this year to take the reins at the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers.

One of my guiding principles, both personally and professionally, is to fix the problem. The commercial truck industry definitely has a problem to fix, writes ATD Chairman Scott Pearson.

LAS VEGAS — Oscar Horton, CEO of Sun State International Trucks in Tampa, Fla., was selected by American Truck Dealers as the winner of its 2020 Truck Dealer of the Year award.