Show me your truck: Tim Lyons, Mac Tools

May 4, 2016

This customized 2015 Freightliner MT55 features engaging product displays and a unique entrance layout.

Mac Tools distributor Tim Lyons drives a 2015 Freightliner MT55, with a 6.7L diesel Cummins ISB engine.

Distributor name: Tim Lyons

Affiliation: Mac Tools

Location: Renton, Wash.

Featured in the August 2015 issue of Professional Distributor, Mac Tools distributor Tim Lyons has since upgraded his truck to a 20’ 2015 Freightliner MT55, with a 6.7L diesel Cummins ISB engine.

With an additional 2’ of length, this 20’ Freightliner features ample LED lighting and wood shelving for a warm and inviting look.

“I thought with the bigger truck I’d have more room,” Lyons says. “I think the fact that I have more room and more product, and it’s something new, I’m getting a lot more customer traffic.”

With Lyons' updated truck layout, his goal was to group different like-minded products and categories together, for two reasons: to assist with not bumping into other customers browsing the truck, and to allow customers an easier means of finding tools on the truck.

In particular, Lyons updated a number of areas on the truck, including customized storage for gloves at the front of the truck, a separate cordless power tools display and an air tools display, complete with a compressed air line on the truck for demos.

About the Author

Erica Schueller | Editorial Director | Commercial Vehicle Group

Erica Schueller is the Editorial Director of the Endeavor Commercial Vehicle Group. The commercial vehicle group includes the following brands: American Trucker, Bulk Transporter, Fleet Maintenance, FleetOwner, Refrigerated Transporter, and Trailer/Body Builders brands.

An award-winning journalist, Schueller has reported and written about the vehicle maintenance and repair industry her entire career. She has received accolades for her reporting and editing in the commercial and automotive vehicle fields by the Truck Writers of North America (TWNA), the International Automotive Media Competition (IAMC), the Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards and the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) Azbee Awards.

Schueller has received recognition among her publishing industry peers as a recipient of the 2014 Folio Top Women in Media Rising Stars award, acknowledging her accomplishments of digital content management and assistance with improving the print and digital products in the Vehicle Repair Group. She was also named one Women in Trucking’s 2018 Top Women in Transportation to Watch.

She is an active member of a number of industry groups, including the American Trucking Associations' (ATA) Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC), the Auto Care Association's Young Auto Care Networking Group, GenNext, and Women in Trucking.

In December 2018, Schueller graduated at the top of her class from the Waukesha County Technical College's 10-week professional truck driving program, earning her Class A commercial driver's license (CDL).

She has worked in the vehicle repair and maintenance industry since 2008.