Advantage Truck Group wins Successful Dealer Award

Advantage Truck Group (ATG) was named the winner of the 2020 Successful Dealer Award during a virtual award presentation Thursday.

Now in its eighth year, the Successful Dealer Award was created by Randall-Reilly and Trucks, Parts, Service sister publication Successful Dealer to honor elite medium- and heavy-duty truck dealers for their incredible commitment to their customers, the trucking industry at large and the communities in which they serve.

Successful Dealer Award winners aren’t just top performing truck dealers; they also serve as stewards of the trucking industry — helpful, consistently reliable partners to their customer base that help keep trucks on the road, freight on the move and the North American economy afloat.

During this calendar year, when so much of the world has been thrown upside down by COVID-19, Advantage Truck Group and all of this year’s Successful Dealer Award finalists have consistently demonstrated a willingness to go above and beyond customer service norms and keep one of America’s most essential industries humming.

ATG President, CEO and co-founder Kevin Holmes says a focus on top-flight customer service has been a priority for him since he founded his business, first as an auto detail and service shop, in 1984. But as the company has grown and evolved to become one of the largest Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) dealer groups in the Northeast, Holmes says he and ATG co-founder Kevin McDevitt can no longer take credit for the incredibly receptive customer-driven operation it has become.

Winning the Successful Dealer Award is an honor, but it’s one Holmes says he must share and attribute to the entire ATG team.

“Our employees are the most important piece of this business. Without them we don’t have anything,” he says. “To win this award, it would be an honor for me to say to my people that ‘This award is yours. You have earned this.’”