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For CEOs of multi‑location commercial truck dealers, parts & service groups, and independent heavy‑truck service companies doing $10M–$50M+.
You built a real operation, multiple locations, real revenue, a leadership team on paper. But decisions still roll back to you. Your managers wait. Your stores run hot when you visit and coast when you don't.
In 14 days, get an honest read from your own managers on where your leadership operating system is slowing execution, where your leaders are stuck, and where you may be unintentionally in the way, plus a 90‑day plan to fix it.
Most 360s end with a report on your desk. Ours ends with proof — we re-measure whether your managers experience you differently 90 days later.
This is the first step to starting your 14‑Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic.
We only run 3 diagnostics per month. If the calendar shows slots, there’s still space.
Want to see what you actually get first? See a real example →Every week your managers wait for you is a week your service lanes, parts counters, and used truck lot run below capacity.
GPS in the commercial truck industry
HDA Truck Pride is the largest independent truck parts and service network in North America. Alex has been invited two years running to address their CEOs, presidents, and owners, first on protecting time and prioritizing what actually moves the business, and most recently on why "people problems" are really profit problems.
Through this work, Alex has become a trusted resource to HDA Truck Pride members on the leadership side of running multi-location, operations-heavy businesses. A joint educational program for member CEOs is currently in development.
Bruckner's is one of the largest Peterbilt dealers in the country, operating 26+ locations across the Southwest. GPS spoke at their annual leadership conference and conducted enterprise-wide analysis and recommendations for implementing a leadership development system, designed to increase leadership effectiveness, reduce burnout, and build bench strength across the entire organization.
"I really appreciated the direction you took our group, you focused on team and building culture, and that's key in our business. Hearing leaders talk about how they'd use what they learned to help team members they'd been struggling with was inspiring. We all grow when we have better tools like this to bring back to the organization."
Brian Bruckner, President, Bruckner's Truck & Equipment
"People problems are really profit problems, and most CEOs in this room are solving the wrong one." — Alex D. Tremble, HDA Truck Pride Annual Meeting 2026
Alex D. Tremble · Founder & CEO, GPS Leadership Solutions
Who you're working with
Most leadership consultants have never sat across from a GM who runs a 12-bay service department. I have, and I know the difference between a leadership problem and a system problem.
I started my career overseeing executive leadership development for the U.S. federal government, organizations where leadership failure has real operational consequences. What I learned there is what I bring to multi-location operators: if the system isn't built to run without the top person in every decision, it won't. Full stop.
I work with CEOs of $10M–$50M+ commercial truck dealerships, parts & service groups, and heavy-truck service companies. I've spoken at the HDA Truck Pride Annual Meeting two years running. I've done enterprise-wide leadership analysis for Bruckner's Truck & Equipment, one of the largest Peterbilt dealer networks in the country. These aren't logos I borrowed. These are relationships I earned.
I don't run workshops. I don't sell inspiration. I install a leadership operating system, and I start every engagement the same way: with an honest read from your own people on where you're the bottleneck.
Personality assessments. Offsite retreats. Frameworks that feel meaningful in a room and disappear by Monday. You've probably done one. It didn't stick.
Six-figure engagements with analysts who've never run a service department. Recommendations land in a deck. Nothing changes in the stores.
Start with a 14-day audit of exactly where you're the bottleneck. Then install a simple system, priorities, meetings, delegation, accountability, that your managers can run without you.
In their own words
We asked CEOs, presidents, and owners at the HDA Truck Pride Annual Meeting to name the biggest leadership problem slowing execution right now. Here's what they said.
You reach consensus. You make the call. Then nothing moves. The same issue resurfaces two weeks later. That's not a communication problem, it's a follow-through and accountability system problem.
Your managers are technically capable. But when pressure hits, they escalate instead of decide. You end up solving problems one level below where you should be operating.
Your calendar is running you. High-value leadership work keeps getting pushed by the urgent. So does your team's alignment with where the business is actually going.
Your GMs and service managers are doing the work instead of building the people who do it. That's how locations become one resignation away from chaos.
When who-does-what isn't defined, your best people spend energy on politics instead of customers. The frustration shows up in turnover before it shows up in a conversation.
Leadership by proximity isn't leadership. If your managers only have authority when standing in front of someone, your stores don't have managers, they have supervisors.
The right fit
We work with 15 clients per service line at a time. Here's exactly who this is and isn't for.
If you're reading the left column and nodding, start with the 14-Day Diagnostic →
How GPS works
No workshops. A simple operating system so your managers run the business, and you run the business.
The 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic shows exactly where your leadership creates drag, through the eyes of your key people, not your gut.
14 days → full picture
Meeting rhythms, delegation structure, decision rights, accountability cadences, simple enough that your managers run it without you enforcing it.
90-day reset → new standard
The hardest part isn't the system. It's you changing how you lead. We coach you through that shift so it sticks when the pressure comes back.
Ongoing → lasting execution
The GPS framework
These are the five places where CEOs of multi-location operations, including HDA Truck Pride members, say their businesses stall. Most have more than one.
Priorities aren't sharp enough for your team to decide without you.
Critical calls stall or bounce back instead of staying closed.
Too much runs through you rather than leaders one level down.
People filter bad news. You're deciding on stale data.
Your people don't know what to do without you. So they wait.
Free 10-minute 5 CEO Bottlenecks Scorecard. Rate yourself across all five areas and walk away knowing which one to fix first.
Where every engagement starts
Most CEOs don't get an honest read on how their leadership lands until something breaks. This gives you that read before it's expensive.
Most 360s stop at the scores. This one keeps going — into a 90-day plan and a re-score that proves your managers actually experience you differently. See a real example ↓
Kickoff call. Identify service managers, parts leads, GMs, and regional leaders. Customize to your situation.
Confidential survey to selected stakeholders. Pro version adds up to 7 in-depth 1:1 interviews to surface what people won't put in a form.
90-minute debrief: TP3™ scores, strengths, development priorities, Intent vs. Impact view, and your 90-day Leadership Impact Plan.
One clear engagement. One concrete outcome.
100% of your Diagnostic fee credited toward your first 90 days of coaching if we keep working together.
For situations requiring deeper stakeholder interviews or a board-ready summary report, a Pro engagement is available at $10,000. Ask about it on the call.
GPS runs a limited number of Diagnostics each quarter. If the calendar shows open slots, there's still space.
Don't take our word for it — look at the actual output
Most executive assessments end with a report. Ours ends with proof — we re-measure whether your managers actually experience you differently 90 days later. Here's the full output, start to finish.
What you see as the CEO
A consolidated read across your entire leadership team — individual scores, a TP3™ snapshot, and recommended next steps. The owner's-eye view of where the operation is bottlenecked.
View the Team Report →What each leader logs into
Each leader's own results: rater feedback, Start / Stop / Continue highlights, and their personal 90-day focus plan — the system that turns a report into real change.
View the Individual Results →The full written diagnostic
The complete written diagnostic each leader receives after their debrief — blind spots, intent-vs-impact, and a detailed 90-day behavior plan. Takes 30 seconds — tell us where to send it.
View the Full Sample Report →A complete, fictional example so you can see the depth before you ever book a call. Your diagnostic is built entirely from your context and your stakeholders — never from a template.
HDA Truck Pride Annual Meeting 2026, Alex with CEOs, presidents, and owners after the session on why people problems are really profit problems.
With Steve Hunt, CEO, H&R Agri-Power (10+ locations). Steve rated the session a perfect 10 and is working with GPS on next steps.
Hosted by Alex Tremble. Candid conversations with CEOs and operators about how they actually run their businesses, the leadership decisions, the operating systems, and the hard lessons from scaling multi-location companies without the owner in every fire.
Listen to recent episodes →The 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic. Two weeks. A clear picture. A concrete plan — and proof of the change at 90 days.
This is the first step to starting your 14‑Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic.
We only run 3 diagnostics per month. If the calendar shows slots, there’s still space.
Not ready to talk yet? See a real example first →GPS works with a maximum of 15 clients per service line at a time.
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