"We're excited to celebrate 40 years in business and we're excited to serve our customers and owner-operators. Before he founded the business, my granddaddy was a trucker and he wanted to establish a company that served the truck buyer better than anywhere else."
In 1967, a man named Joe Wood started what he called “The American Dream.”
He had a vision of how a truck dealer should deal with his customers: Never say “It can’t be done” and to treat the customer with the respect that he deserves. To that end, he founded Middle Georgia Freightliner in Macon, GA and the dealership is celebrating forty years in business.
Joe Wood passed on in 1998, but the organization is now in the capable hands of his grandson, Sales Manager Heath Wood. Along with other family members and long-tenured employees, Heath has grown the business and it is now one of the top dealers of new and used expedited trucks in the U.S.
The dealership recently introduced a brand new sleeper to the expedited market, a 96″ unit designed by Heath and his co-workers and manufactured locally to their exacting specifications. Appropriately, it’s called “The Georgia Classic.”
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In fact, at the Expedite Expo in July, Heath accepted a plaque awarded to Middle Georgia Freightliner-Isuzu for “innovation and imagination” in bringing this sleeper to market.
“My grandfather started this business with a 2-bay shop and 4 employees,” Heath says, “and now we’re up to 16-bays with over 40 employees. And, we’re still growing!”
“We’re excited to celebrate 40 years in business and we’re excited to serve our customers and owner-operators. Before he founded the business, my granddaddy was a trucker and he wanted to establish a company that served the truck buyer better than anywhere else.”
“I can still hear him saying, “Keep my American Dream going.”
