PHOENIX - Auto Safety House LLC (ASH) announced that Jim LoPresti, ASH's president and CEO, was elected to the Board of Trustees for the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) as a distributor member representative.

The NTEA, established in 1964 and based in Farmington Hills, Mich., currently represents nearly 1,700 companies that manufacture, distribute, install, buy, sell and repair commercial trucks, truck bodies, truck equipment, trailers, and accessories. Buyers of work trucks and the major commercial truck chassis manufacturers also belong to the Association. The NTEA Board is composed of eight distributor and four manufacturer representatives. Trustee candidates are nominated and elected by the general membership prior to the annual convention for three-year terms. 

"It is a great honor to be associated with such an influential and long-standing organization as the NTEA. Our company is one of the original founding companies of the NTEA and we have seen the positive impact that the organization has had on the truck equipment industry over the years," said LoPresti. "The NTEA's objectives are aligned with our Company's key objectives, namely, to promote high quality products and services, to improve safety on public highways, to promote the production and distribution of safe and efficient vehicles, and to improve the efficiency of our customers."

The newly elected Board was seated on March 8 and introduced March 11 in St. Louis at the NTEA's Work Truck Show.