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High Bar Brands Adds VP, Restructures Sales Leadership

In a strategic move to strengthen its sales leadership and senior team, High Bar Brands (HBB), an industry-leading North
American supplier of heavy-duty truck parts, has appointed Mike Selick as Vice President of Sales. Selick will join Derek
Quys on the senior sales leadership team, with Quys stepping into the role of Senior Vice President of Sales and Business
Development.

HBB, known for its five iconic industry brands — Minimizer, Premier Manufacturing, Dieter’s, Panelite, and Viking Mud Flaps
— is actively seeking to acquire additional legacy companies, an expansion strategy that Thorpe says was a key factor in
Selick’s hiring and Quys’ promotion.

Selick will oversee HBB’s Sales Directors and Regional Managers and will report directly to Quys.

Safe Fleet Expands Its Safety-As-A-
Service Network to Houston, TX East Promotes Mark Sabol
Senior Director of Retail
Safe Fleet, a leading supplier of fleet vehicle safety solutions, continues
to expand its Commercial Vehicle division’s Safety-As-A-Service (SAAS) Sales, Service
network, with a facility in Houston, TX. This new location will better East Manufacturing, manufacturer of aluminum
service work trucks and the construction, agriculture, refuse, and flatbed, drop deck, dump and refuse trailers as well
recycling vehicles.
as aluminum truck bodies and steel dump trailers,
is pleased to announce that Mark Sabol has been
This service location will specialize in using premium solutions from promoted to Senior Director of Retail Sales & Service.
its family of tarping, video, and van storage brands: Roll·Rite, Pulltarps,
Vango, American Van, and Rear View Safety. Roll-Rite, Vango, and In his new role, Sabol is responsible for managing all
Pulltarps provide a wide array of automatic, semi-automatic, and aspects of the East Service Center. In addition, Sabol
rolling tarp solutions that ensure payloads stay covered. To improve will be instrumental in establishing new service
visibility and road awareness, Rear View Safety supplies backup programs as well as developing strategic goals for
cameras (including those with AI capabilities), side cameras, mobile service growth.
DVRs, sensors, and monitors. The site will also provide organizational
and safety solutions from American Van in the form of shelving, ladder Prior to his promotion, Sabol was Senior Director of
racks, flooring, and partitions. With a combination of any of these Retail Sales and Product Manager of Platform Trailers.
products, clients can expect fully customized upfits, white glove In his new capacity, he will continue guidance of retail
service, and a dedicated account manager.
sales, used trailer sales as well as platform product
Pitts Enterprises Names Chad Lee as sales and customer development. Sabol has been
instrumental helping to implement flatbed and drop
Territory Sales Manager deck trailer features and advancements to meet

Pitts Trailers and Dorsey Intermodal welcomes Chad Lee, new Territory customer needs.
Sales Manager. Covering the central U.S., Lee will support the sales
team that serves Pitts’ trusted dealer network. Joining East in 1990, Sabol began his East career
as Western Region Marketing Representative. He
Lee comes to Pitts with an extensive sales background. “I have spent became Product Manager of Refuse Trailers in 1995
the last 22 years of my career at a leading trailer dealership specializing and subsequently Director of Retail Sales in 2007.
in the sale of Pitts products,” he explained. “As a seasoned sales
professional, I have had the privilege of representing Pitts, a brand He holds a bachelor’s degree in education from
known for its innovation, reliability, and superior craftsmanship in the Heidelberg University. Sabol and his wife, Nancy, have
trailer industry.” two children and one grandchild.

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