2025-2026 Pub. 66 Issue 1

Pippen Motor Company, a family-owned dealership in Carthage, Texas, recently celebrated 50 years as an official GMC dealership. The milestone was recognized with an event attended by General Motors representatives, local staff and community members.

San Antonio auto dealer and businessman Ernesto Ancira Jr. was honored with the Entrepreneur and Innovation Award by TMI Episcopal, formerly known as the Texas Military Institute, on Oct. 7.

Among the most difficult unemployment insurance cases for an employer to win is one involving a discharge for poor performance, or inability to perform to the employer’s performance expectations. This article provides basic tools that employers can utilize in unemployment cases involving inability.

Founded in 1924 by J.L. Huffines Sr., the Huffines Motor Company first opened its doors in Denton, Texas, where it sold Willys-Knight and Overland automobiles.

Sames Auto Group began with William J. (W.J.) Sames, who moved from Hartford, Connecticut, to Laredo, Texas, in 1890. Partnering with J.R. Moore, they formed the Sames & Moore Company, a wholesale warehouse business. They added Ford vehicles to their lineup in 1910, marking the first vehicles sold in the Laredo area. W.J. Sames took sole ownership of the automobile business in 1925.

The Texas Automobile Dealers Association (TADA) congratulates Robert M. Cavender, president of Cavender Buick GMC North in San Antonio, whose nomination for the 2026 TIME Dealer of the Year award was announced in October. Cavender is one of a select group of 47 dealer nominees from across the country who will be honored at the 109th annual National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show in Las Vegas on Feb. 5, 2026.