July 25, 2022

Bruckner’s Truck & Equipment recently qualified for EV certification. The
certification is the first to be awarded to a Mack dealership in Texas, so TADA visited with Brian Bruckner, president of Bruckner’s Truck & Equipment, about the family business and that accomplishment. Brian went to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and earned a B.A. in general business.

NADA was selected by the Academy of
Interactive and Visual Arts as a Communicator Award winner. The Communicator Awards were founded nearly 30 years ago and recognize
excellence, effectiveness, and innovation in all areas of communication across a variety of industries.

Texas Dealer Academy (TDA) members returned to Washington, D.C. in mid-May to lobby the Texas congressional delegation on important Federal priorities identified by the NADA Legislative Office. The trip had originally been planned for June 2020, but the pandemic and continuing restrictions on operations in Washington, D.C. pushed the visits to May 2022. The TDA group was one of the first visits by franchised
dealers to Capitol Hill since the pandemic began.

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) has appointed Daniel Avitia as the organization’s executive director. He joined TxDMV in 2014 as the director of the Motor Vehicle Division and started serving as the interim executive director in February 2022. TADA recently spoke with Daniel about his life, new position and other subjects.

Note that while the “qualified individual” must have ultimate responsibility for overseeing and managing the information security program, dealers may still delegate particular duties, decision-making, and responsibilities to other staff members. Moreover, the Safeguard Rule does not require that this be the person’s sole job – he or she may have other duties. By now,

I received approval from Business View Magazine to reprint the article published in the April/May issue
which I am including below. I did want to mention that we are now less than six months away from the start of the 88th Texas Legislature and it promises to
be an active one. We still have the General Election (November 8th) between now and then, but I want to
encourage you to connect with your local elected officials, most of whom you know to educate them on issues of
importance to you and to Texas automobile dealers across the state. TADA is hard at work representing you on the legislative, legal, and regulatory fronts.