The National Truck Equipment Association elected three new members to its board of trustees and a new president at the 46th Annual NTEA Convention held in conjunction with The Work Truck Show on March 9-12, 2010.
Allen Birmingham was named the new NTEA president. Birmingham, the national sales manager for Tommy Gate Company in Phoenix, Arizona, accepted the gavel from immediate past president Andrew Outcalt.
New distributor trustees include Jim LoPresti, president and CEO of Auto Safety House in Phoenix, Arizona, and Jeffrey Messer, president of Messer Truck Equipment in Westbrook, Maine. Dave Zelis,director of sales and marketing at Buyers Products Company in Mentor, Ohio, was named a new manufacturer trustee.
The 2010-2011 board of trustees includes:
