{"id":341,"date":"2015-09-28T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-12-29T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:20:16","slug":"vfi-purchases-pacific-truck-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/vfi-purchases-pacific-truck-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"VFI Purchases Pacific Truck Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"email\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"FreightlinerNW\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"VFI%20Purchases%20Pacific%20Truck%20Centers\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Valley Freightliner (VFI), the Northwest\u2019s premier Freightliner dealer, with headquarters in Pacific, Washington, is pleased to announce the acquisition of five truck centers from Pacific Power Group (PPG) of Ridgefield, Washington.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With the addition of PPG\u2019s Oregon locations in Coburg, Redmond and Medford, as well as its Kapolei, Hawaii location, VFI expands to 11 full-service Freightliner dealerships.\u00a0 In addition, PPG\u2019s Detroit Diesel distributorship in Ridgefield, Washington was acquired along with the Detroit Diesel Distributor rights for Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii and the pan handle of Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of the transaction, VFI also becomes a full-service Western Star dealer in Olympia, Washington and maintains that status in Coburg, Oregon.\u00a0 VFI has also acquired Pacific\u2019s four FUSO truck franchises in Oregon and Hawaii.\u00a0 This acquisition further expands VFI\u2019s position as the largest Freightliner, Detroit Diesel and aftermarket sales and service provider in the Pacific Northwest, including new and used commercial truck and trailer sales, service, parts, maintenance and equipment financing.<\/p>\n<p>The acquired truck centers will continue to operate as Pacific Truck Centers, a division of Valley Freightliner, to minimize the impact to customers, employees and vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Price, President of PPG commented, \u201cOn behalf of the owners and entire management team of Pacific Power Group, I would like to thank once again all of the Pacific employees impacted by this transaction for their relentless focus on taking care of the customer over the last several months. We wish each of them, the Gordon family, and the VFI management team all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott Gordon, President of Valley Freightliner commented, &#8220;We are very excited to expand our representation of Daimler Trucks of North America today with the completion of our third acquisition in five months. \u00a0Pacific Truck Centers has a long history of providing excellent service to its customers with very dedicated and talented employees.\u00a0 We are looking forward to the opportunity to share ideas and learn from one another as we look to bring consistency in our approach to serving our customers and growing market share.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley Freightliner (VFI), the Northwest\u2019s premier Freightliner dealer, with headquarters in Pacific, Washington, is pleased to announce the acquisition of five truck centers from Pacific Power Group (PPG) of Ridgefield, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}