The Truck Guys has moved into its new full-service used truck dealership at 5544 W. 2400 S., Suite 100, in West Valley City. The new facilities include a two-story building on two acres with a full-service shop including five lifts to totally recondition the trucks they sell. With the service bays, sales office and customer lounge on the main level, the building has offices and meeting rooms on the second level.
“We have never seen or worked out of a dealership quite like this one. It’s a lot of fun and our customers love what we can do for them now with these new facilities,” said Jay Brownlow, one of the founders of the company. “We have separate bays for custom detailing and another building where we spray custom bed linings in one bay and another one where we dyno-test the trucks they sell so they can give their customers horsepower, torque and blowby readings to help understand how many miles are left in the truck.”
Brownlow and Kevin Danner started out in the tire business specializing in selling, installing and “lifting and leveling” custom tires and wheels for pickups. Developing a passion for pickups, they moved on to selling them for a used truck dealer in Utah County. In 2018, they partnered with Bart Warner of the Warner Truck Center and started Utah Truck Guys. Warner knew from his experience selling Ford and Freightliner trucks that controlling the used truck reconditioning process is the key to making used truck buyers happy and bringing them back.
Beside the trade-ins the company takes, The Truck Guys buy from fleets that they know have proven maintenance programs such as the company’s next-door neighbor Sherpa Commercial Trucks, and from individuals who are in the market to sell their trucks. Sherpa is also owned by Warner and his son Tony.