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Three Candidates Sought for 2024–2025

NTDA Board of Directors

Nominations are sought to fill two (2) Dealer openings and one (1) • First Vice Chairman — Heather Wilson, Chief Commercial
Allied opening on the 2024–2025 National Trailer Dealers Association Officer, BMO, Irving, TX)
(NTDA) Board of Directors.
• Second Vice Chairman — Chad Strader, President, Ervin
Newly elected Board members will begin their three-year terms of Equipment, Inc. (Toledo, IL)
service at the Oct. 9, 2024 Board Meeting that will be held during the
34th Annual NTDA Convention at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & • Treasurer — William Schaffer, VP of Sales, Overseas Hardwoods
Spa in Indian Wells, CA. Company (Mobile, AL).

Eligible candidates may nominate themselves or fellow individuals DEALER BOARD MEMBERS
employed by Dealer or Allied member companies in good standing. To
qualify as a nominee for Director of the Association, a candidate must Additional Dealer members serving on the 2024–2025 NTDA Board of
either be (i) the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operating Officer (or for Directors include:
entities organized as partnerships or proprietorships, a partner or owner,
as applicable) or (ii) an officer (or for entities organized as partnerships • Charlie Blyth, President, Blyth Trailer Sales, LLC (Valley Park, MO)
or proprietorships, a partner or owner, as applicable) or other senior
management position. A candidate shall not qualify as a nominee for • Bobby Briggs, President and CEO, Peak Trailer Group (Lewisville,
Director if at the inception of his or her term there would be another TX)
Director from a firm owning or controlling, owned or controlled by, or
under common ownership or control with, the candidate’s firm. • Gene Masteller, President, Atlantic Great Dane, Inc. (South
Portland, ME)
Further, to qualify, a nominee must be an NTDA Dealer, Dealer Branch
Member or Allied Member must have five years of trailer industry • Bill Nehmer, President, Great Dane of Utah, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
experience, must be employed by the same member company in good
standing for a minimum of five years (60 months), and have attended • David Saunders, Vice President, Interstate Utility Trailer —
at least two Association Annual Conventions. A candidate may not Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
be actively serving on a competing organization’s board of directors
during his or her tenure on the NTDA Board of Directors without prior NTDA PRESIDENT
written consent of the NTDA Executive Committee.
• Gwendolyn Brown serves as President of the NTDA.
The Nominating Committee has the sole discretion to determine what
constitutes a competing organization. All members elected to the MEMBERS RETIRING FROM THE BOARD
Board of Directors may be asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
The following three Dealer Members will retire from their terms of
2024–2025 NTDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS service on the NTDA Board in October 2024 during the 34th Annual
NTDA Convention.
Jamey Vaughn, President, Twin State Trailers, resigned from the NTDA
Board effective April 1, 2024. Vaughn was serving as Second Vice • 2023–2024 Chairman of the Board Justin Deputy, CEO, 1580
Chairperson of the 2023–2024 Board. The Board voted to leave Vaughn’s Utility Trailer (Salt Lake City, UT)
position will remain vacant until October 2024, and appointed the
following individuals to the 2024–2025 Executive Committee: • Justin Cravens, Vice President-Sales, Ridewell Suspensions
(Springfield, MO)
• Chairman of the Board — Mack Keay, COO, Ocean Trailer —
Delta • An additional dealer is sought to fill the vacancy left by Jamey
Vaughn’s departure from the Board.

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