Young Truck Sales, Inc. started in October 1954 as a dealer for White Motor Co. and was named Young White Trucks, Inc. at that time. The company started with 6 employees and was located on 3rd St SW in Canton. Herbert Young, his wife Nell Young, and son Richard Young founded the company. Their younger son Robert joined the company after finishing college.

By the mid-sixties the company had outgrown the downtown Canton location and moved to the corner of Perry Dr. SW and Southway St SW. Growth continued and in 1976 the company changed names to Young Truck Sales, Inc to reflect the addition of the Freightliner franchise as a separate line of business. Young also expanded their business by adding a body shop and a leasing company in the late 70’s.

A devastating fire in April of 1983 destroyed the Perry and Southway facility. The company made the decision to rebuild, and within one week of the fire was operating at its current location of 4970 Southway St SW. That decision was a good one and Young’s continued to grow. In 1989 Young purchased JayMac Body and Frame and expanded the leasing operation under the name of Young NationaLease, Inc. In the 90’s change accelerated. Young established a separate facility for their Volvo and GMC line of trucks, sold their leasing business to Penske Truck Leasing, and changed control of the dealership to the 3rd generation – Craig A. Young as President and Dealer Principal, and Robert P. Young as Vice-President and Used Truck Manager.

Young Truck Sales, Inc. is very pleased to receive a Freightliner Aspire Summit Award for 2007, recognizing us as one of the top 10 Freightliner dealer locations in the US & Canada. We previously had been recognized in 2006 as a Freightliner Aspire Alpine Award winner, which recognized us as one of the top 20 Freightliner dealer locations in the US & Canada.

The Freightliner Aspire program is designed to measure a dealership on a number of factors that revolve around serving the trucking community – things like parts stocking levels, customer satisfaction measured by Service & Parts Experience scores and Initial Buyer Tracking scores, technician training and certification, salesmen certification, and truck sales levels.

The Aspire Summit Award is recognition of the hard work and dedication of each and every person working at Young Truck Sales. Our goal everyday is to “Make our Customers Successful”.

Thank you to all of the people at Young Truck Sales, Inc., and thank you to all of our customers. We sincerely appreciate your service, your business, and your trust in us.

Craig Young at awards ceremony
on behalf of Young Truck Sales, Inc.
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Left to Right:
Jack Conlan (Senior Vice President, Customer Support, Freightliner)
Craig Young (President, Young Truck Sales, Inc.)
Chris Patterson (President & CEO, Daimler Trucks North America)

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Craig Young in the spotlight from the
Freightliner Trucks 2007 Dealer of the Year
promo flyer.

Service Director at Young Truck Sales, Mark Cush, visited St. Joseph's Elementary School (Dover, Ohio) for their March 06, 2008 Career Day with a 2008 model CA 125 SLP Freightliner cab. Mark is pictured with the kindergarten class. His son, Curt, is in the OSU jacket :).