During the past several months, CNCDA has expanded our outreach to California’s heavy-duty truck dealers. CNCDA held our inaugural meeting of CTD (California Truck Dealers), a CNCDA board of directors committee, on Dec. 2, 2020. Chaired by KC Heidler (President & CEO of Tom’s Truck Center and CNCDA Board member), CTD is designed to enhance CNCDA’s outreach to California’s heavy-duty truck dealers.

CTD’s inaugural meeting included Tom Bertolino (NorCal Kenworth), Kim Mesfin (Affinity Truck Center), and Matt Schrap (South Bay Truck Center and California Fleet Solutions). Alisa Reinhart (CNCDA’s Director of Government Affairs) joined me during the meeting to discuss CNCDA’s planned 2021 advocacy efforts.

Following CTD’s meeting, Matt Schrap invited Alisa and me to speak on CNCDA’s advocacy and compliance efforts at the Truck Dealer Alliance of California’s (TDAC) March 3, 2021 meeting. TDAC was recently created to serve as a voice for commercial truck dealerships in California. During the meeting, Alisa discussed how CNCDA’s legislative priorities would impact commercial heavy-duty truck dealers, and I spoke on an important compliance issue affecting commercial heavy-duty truck dealers.

I am excited to continue to work with KC, Matt, Tom and Kim (and all other California truck dealers) to listen to their unique concerns and provide the value of CNCDA membership.