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Voting Open for 2025–2026 NTDA Board of Directors Election

Two Dealer Member candidates have been nominated to fill one open About Wes Schneider
position on the 2025–2026 National Trailer Dealers Association Board Wes Schneider has been in the trucking industry
of Directors. Travis (TJ) Johnson, President/CEO of Intermountain for over 50 years. He started out as a teenager
Trailer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Wesley (Wes) Schneider, President, washing and greasing trucks and trailers and then
Kingpin Trailers Ltd, Edmonton, AB, Canada, are running for the Board. loading them in the evening for his fathers’ trucking
NTDA Chairman of the Board Mack Keay retires from the Board in company.
October 2025 leaving one Dealer position open.
After graduating from University, Wes went to work
About TJ Johnson for the family business. It started out as a one-truck company and
Travis Johnson (TJ) is an effective business leader grew to a regional LTL trucking company from the bottom up. By the
with a proven track record of success within the time the family sold the business, it owned over 300 trucks and trailers,
tractor trailer sector of the transportation Industry. operating 13 terminals in Western Canada. Wes served as President for
Yielding over 25 years of operations and project the last eight years before selling it after some tremendous growth up
management experience with the most recent 15 to 2007.
years at the executive management level. TJ has
continued to deliver double digit top line revenue Wes started Kingpin Trailers in 2009 as a trailer service and repair
and margin growth, along with significantly company after deciding that retirement was not for him. Soon
reducing fixed and operating expenses through thereafter, Kingpin Trailers began selling trailers and are proud to
improved operational efficiency initiatives. represent three OEM’s in the four western provinces of Canada.
Many of TJ’s early transportation years were spent within the private
fleet sector in operations management. In 2009, TJ joined OnRamp During his tenure in the trucking industry, Wes served on the board
Trailer Wabash of Utah as Vice President Fixed Operations and in 2012 of directors for two terms at the Alberta Motor Transport Association
became President. In 2014 OnRamp Trailer was acquired by Prime (AMTA). He also served on the Safety and Compliance Committee, and
Trailer where he continued to serve as President until 2017 when he the annual conference planning committee, while a board member
was provided the opportunity to purchase the dealerships in Nevada with the AMTA. Wes holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Business
and Utah and later acquire assets from Wabash National in Colorado degree from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. He received his
to become what is Intermountain Trailer today. Intermountain Trailer Master Graduate of Rapport Leadership International from
has dealerships operating in Salt Lake City, UT, Commerce City, CO and Las Vegas, NV.
Fort Lupton, CO. Primary member contacts may cast one vote person company at
https://ntda.site-ym.com/page/BoardElectionProfilesBallot.

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