A look inside Midwest Wheel's Davenport, Iowa, facility. The company was named the 2021 TPS Distributor of the Year Tuesday at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week in Grapevine, Texas.
The last year will go down as one of milestones for Midwest Wheel Companies.
In May, the 110-year-old distributor opened a new location in Joplin, Mo., its second store in the Show-Me State. Later that same month the company onboarded a unique, AI-driven parts management solution designed to enhance customer service and reduce order processing time.
Six months after that, the company (along with Vice President of Marketing and Technology Steve McEnany, who led the AI integration) nabbed a national award from Constellation Research for innovation and business transformation for its adoption of the next-generation inventory solution.
The company had a busy summer, too. A new website came online to support the company’s digital evolution, President and CEO Michael Callison Jr. was named to the Commercial Vehicle Solutions Network (CVSN) board of directors and, in July, Midwest Wheel earned its fourth nomination for the Trucks, Parts, Service Distributor of the Year Award.
Midwest Wheel is presented the 2021 TPS Distributor of the Year Tuesday at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week in Grapevine, Texas.
A year like that would be a tough act to follow for any distributor. But Midwest Wheel is already on its way to surpassing it after winning the 2021 TPS Distributor of the Year Award Tuesday at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week 2022 in Grapevine, Texas. Also winner of the Distributor of the Year Award in 2004 and 2012, Midwest Wheel remains the only multi-year winner in the 20-year history of the program.
