The Caterpillar On-Highway Group Thursday announced a significant service expansion and management consolidation.
Caterpillar Adds Five New Field Offices, Expands Power Systems No. Amer. Department

According the Caterpillar release, all North American on-highway and commercial product support functions, as well as on-highway engine sales, are being consolidated into an expanded Power Systems North America Department. Jim McReynolds will lead the expanded on-highway department as well as the international on-highway group headed up by Michael Leyden, international manager, Global On-Highway Engine Department, Caterpillar On-Highway Engines.
Six original geographic regions have been expanded to 11 new district teams as part of Power Systems North America, which will cover truck engine fleet sales and all Caterpillar commercial engine product support. This customer/dealer support organization will be comprised of on-highway marketing and OEM sales, consolidated commercial and on-highway product support marketing, engine warranty administration, merchandising program administration and the truck engine call center.
Regional managers include Larry Dicks (Central region), Karl Vandermyde (Eastern region) and Tom Eberlin (Western region). These managers will lead district team offices located in Hartford, Conn; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, Calif; Charlotte, N.C.; Peoria, Ill; Seattle, Wash; Jacksonville, Fla; Columbus, Ohio; Nashville, Tenn; Denver, Colo; and Toronto, Ont., Canada, as well as a team assigned to the North American lease/rental market.
Last year, according to the release, Caterpillar shipped more than 1 million on-highway engines. The company has shipped over 185,000 on-highway engines equipped with the company’s ACERT Technology.
“With an active population of more than 1.2 million Cat engines on the road today, Caterpillar is expanding to serve this growing customer base and to provide streamlined support to the Caterpillar ‘Genuine Network’ of 2,500 authorized service outlets,” the company said.
For more information, visit www.cattruckengines.com.

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