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01About Rocket Truck Center

Forty-eight years of
not overselling.

We are a family-held truck dealer with two Wisconsin branches and a straightforward proposition: the price is published, the inspection file comes with the unit, and the service network is ours rather than subcontracted.

The Rocket Truck Center main lot in Madison
48yrs
Selling heavy iron since 1978
2
Branches across Wisconsin
42
Service bays under our own roofs
11k+
Trucks delivered to working fleets
02The story

Built one lot at a time.

  1. 1978

    One lot in Madison

    Ray Okonjo buys a corner lot on Felland Road with four used tractors and a phone. The rule from day one: publish the price, show the work.

  2. 1991

    The first service bays

    Customers kept asking who should fix what we sold them. Rather than send them elsewhere we opened six bays behind the lot and started hiring technicians.

  3. 2004

    Certification programme

    We formalised the 140-point inspection and started handing the file to the buyer at delivery. Nobody in the region was doing that on used iron.

  4. 2015

    Milwaukee opens

    A second branch opens in Milwaukee for service and used trucks — chosen for the lanes our customers actually run, not for market size.

  5. 2026

    Second generation

    Still family-held. Still publishing every price. Eleven thousand trucks delivered and a service network that answers the phone at three in the morning.

03How we work

Four rules we have not changed since 1978.

  • 01

    Publish the price

    Every unit on this site shows its number. 'Call for pricing' exists to get you on the phone before you know whether the truck is worth your time. We think that is backwards.

  • 02

    Show the work

    The inspection file, the service history, the repair invoices — they come with the truck. If we did work on it you get to see what we did and what we found.

  • 03

    Sell the right truck

    Our people are not paid a spiff on margin per unit. If the cheaper truck fits your lanes better, that is the one we will put in front of you.

  • 04

    Stay after the sale

    Parts counter, 42 bays and mobile units. The sale is the beginning of a fifteen-year relationship with that piece of equipment, not the end of one.

04Customers

Fleets that buy twice.

We replaced fourteen tractors in eighteen months and Rocket Truck Center handled every one of them. What sold us was the reconditioning file — they showed us the work before we signed, not after.

Deborah Achebe

Director of Fleet, Merit Cold Chain

I bought my first truck here in 2011 as an owner-operator. I now run nine. They never once talked me into more truck than the lanes could pay for.

Marcus Villareal

Owner, Villareal Transport

The Granite arrived with the body already on it. That is three weeks of upfit delay we did not eat, on a job that had a hard start date.

Priya Raghunathan

Operations Manager, Keystone Aggregate

05The network

Two branches, chosen by lane.

Each branch exists because our customers run through it, not because a market study said so. Madison for the headquarters and main lot, Milwaukee for service and used trucks.

  • WI

    Madison

    Headquarters & main lot

  • WI

    Milwaukee

    Service & used trucks

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