Visiting a satellite truck dealership facility

Aug. 24, 2015

Not all truck dealerships are created equal - and that's often by design. Case in point: the Mountain West Truck Center in Heyburn, Idaho, one of four "satellite" facilities to Mountain West's main location in Salt lake City, Utah. Ron Johnson Jr., Mountain West's general manager, explained that his dealership's Heyburn facility is exactly halfway between Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho, and is designed to provide "gap support" to customer fleets operating between those two major urban locales.

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