Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment has earned a new certification. The dealership is now an Allison Authorized Service Facility and Certified Dealer.

The new certification allows Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment to perform Allison Transmission specific service and repair in-house, as well as complete warranty repairs.

Two in-house service technicians and one mobile service technician completed a week-long, out-of-market training, where they completed the necessary education and hands-on training required to become a certified location. The dealership has acquired the tooling required by Allison Transmission to be named as an Allison Authorized Service Facility.

As a certified dealer, they are also now carrying a full inventory of parts. The dealership is only one of three certified locations in the area.

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Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment and Silver State International announced Anne Keele has been promoted to chief financial officer of the companies.

Keele joined Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment 25 years ago, first serving as an office manager, and then controller. During her career with the company, she has been responsible for accounts payable and receivable, truck sales administration and inventory control auditor.

She offers a wealth of experience managing all accounting operations, inventory and truck sales, as well as working to improve and develop the business processes and policies to maintain and continue to enhance internal controls.

Keele studied music at the University of Nevada, Reno and business management at Brigham Young University in Idaho. She is a member of the Reno Pops Orchestra and Northern Nevada String Serenade and previously acted as the parent teacher organization president at Stead Elementary.

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Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment and Silver State International announced Marty Makrdichian has been promoted to director of service of the companies.

Makrdichian has been a member of the Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment and Silver State International team since 2006. He has over 17 years of experience in the trucking industry with most of it being in the service department.

Makrdichian grew up in the industry and was wrenching with his father by 4 years old. He has continued developing his skills through other certification programs including Paccar, MX, Cat, Cummins, ASE, Peterbilt Service Management, and leadership through the University of Nevada, Reno, Extended Studies.

In his current role as director of service, Makrdichian oversees five service departments with over 70 employees.

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Peterbilt Truck Parts and Equipment and Silver State International are very proud to sponsor Military Night at the Aces! Our employees were joined by their families as well at the event as our Annual Employee Family Gathering. Go Aces!

 

Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment and Silver State International announced Taylor Bruce has been promoted to director of human resources of the companies.

After graduating college in 2011, Bruce returned to her Reno roots where she started her career as an office manager for a dental tech company. In 2017, she joined a local HR consulting firm and had the opportunity to work with companies throughout the Northern Nevada region. Bruce joined the Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment and Silver State International team in 2019 as a human resources administrator.

Bruce is an active member of the Northern Nevada Human Resources Association, where she served as co-chair of Best Places to Work from 2018-23. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Oklahoma, and has dual certificates from the University of Nevada, Reno, extended studies in leadership and HR management.

In addition, she is both Professional in Human Resources and Society for Human Resource Management certified. These certifications demonstrate Bruce’s technical and operational knowledge of HR management, including U.S. laws and regulations.

In her new role, she is responsible for developing corporate HR plans, handling employment relations, overseeing HR personnel, and ensuring compliance with employment laws and regulations.

In addition, Bruce is responsible for developing and enforcing the company’s HR policies, setting attainable human resources goals, and creating a strategy to efficiently manage HR finances.

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Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment and Silver State International announced Mark Rizzo has been promoted to director of parts.

Rizzo first joined Peterbilt in 1999, where he began his career in shipping and receiving.

In his most recent position, he served as the parts manager where he was responsible for day-to-day operations of the parts department, including planning and controlling all activities to ensure that growth and profit objectives are met within the department.

In his new role, Rizzo will be responsible for overseeing the International and Peterbilt parts departments to make sure all parts practices are staying aligned with each other.

He will review the profit and loss report daily for both stores, confirming they have adequate staff to cover all parts department related items, as well as maintaining employee retention for both stores.

With 24 years in the heavy-duty trucking industry, Rizzo helps other management staff create and maintain a comfortable work environment.

Rizzo has been instrumental in implementing new processes, which have created efficiencies in both the shipping and receiving departments.

 

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A Sparks facility that specializes in Peterbilt trucks just completed a major expansion amid a “freight recession,” banking on growing demand for truck servicing fueled by more used trucks on the road and ongoing supply chain issues.

Peterbilt Truck Parts & Equipment held a grand opening this month as the dealership and service center celebrated a $10 million expansion of its facility in Sparks. The 27,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the truck facility’s size to 48,000 square feet.

“Reno-Sparks has long been an important location for trucking support for routes between Sacramento and Salt Lake City,” said John Phillips, owner of Peterbilt Truck Parts and Equipment.

“That has become even more true in recent years with the addition of more manufacturing and distribution facilities to our market.”

Nevada has seen its logistics sector surge in the last decade, reaching 100,400 jobs in 2020, according to the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The employment numbers represent a 55% increase from 2010.

In Washoe County, logistics jobs grew by 42% to 28,405 positions. Reno also ranked third in a global ranking for logistics rent growth in 2021.

COVID-19 put even more pressure on the industry as online buying surged. The pandemic also wreaked havoc on the “just-in-time” model used by companies for purchases, fueling supply chain issues. The shortages included truck parts.

“We are continuing to see supply chain disruptions and the result is that our customers need to keep trucks already in service on the road longer,” Phillips said. “This new facility will support our growing market and our customers’ ability to keep their fleets in operation.”

With the expansion complete, Peterbilt Truck Parts and Equipment is also looking to add 10 more workers to its current staff of 91.

The expanded facility includes 20 new service bays and 18 overhead crane bays. The facility also has a driver’s lounge with an entertainment and quiet area, laundry facilities, EV charging, and a station for “undecking” trucks.

The expansion’s completion comes at a time when the area is struggling with a freight recession, according to the Nevada Trucking Association. The lower rates paid for freight are being driven by excess capacity as thousands of people entered the industry in response to trucking shortages during the pandemic.

“We had so many people getting into this industry after COVID,” said Paul Enos, Nevada Trucking Association CEO. “The number of (truck) carriages in Nevada doubled from approximately 5,800 to 11,000.”

A freight recession is not necessarily bad news for a truck servicing operation, however.

Enos expects more used trucks to enter the market, which could lead to increased demand for servicing and repairs. Demand for servicing diesel trucks should also remain high despite new California regulations pushing for increased adoption of electric vehicles, Enos added.

“You are going to have to keep those trucks running,” Enos said. “Expanding a service center to make sure those trucks can be serviced and remain operable makes a tremendous amount of sense.”