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Gator Truck Center has 2 locations, listed below.

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    • Gator Truck Center

      3277 Ute Ave Waukee, IA 50263-7100

    • Gator Truck Center

      1517 E Aurora Ave Des Moines, IA 50313

    Business ProfileforGator Truck Center

    Industrial Trucks
    Multi Location Business

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    Customer Complaints

    1 complaints closed in last 3 years

    0 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Overview

    The company offers the sales and service of heavy
    duty trucks and semis. The company also has a full service repair facility and parts department.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Gator Truck Center has 2 locations, listed below.

    *This company may be headquartered in or have additional locations in another country. Please click on the country abbreviation in the search box below to change to a different country location.

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      • Gator Truck Center

        3277 Ute Ave Waukee, IA 50263-7100

      • Gator Truck Center

        1517 E Aurora Ave Des Moines, IA 50313

      Location of This Business
      3277 Ute Ave, Waukee, IA 50263-7100
      BBB File Opened:
      8/1/1982
      Years in Business:
      42
      Business Started:
      3/1/1982
      Alternate Business Name
      • McKenna Truck Center of Des Moines
      Business Management
      • Robert Nietzke, President
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Robert Nietzke, President

      Customer Contact

      • Robert Nietzke, President
      Additional Contact Information

      Fax Numbers

      • (515) 266-3045
        Primary Fax

      Phone Numbers

      Customer Complaints

      1 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      02/15/2022

      Complaint Type:
      Service or Repair Issues
      Status:
      Answered
      I trusted to receive honest and quality repair. With a mission statement of, Our solutions to global challenges are driven by our mission to drive prosperity through transport and infrastructure solution I thought I was in good hands. Instead, after paying $3,202.50 for repairs (DEF pump replacement) on my ****** and getting my driver back on the road, my truck broke down once more. This issue not only put my driver in danger, but led to delays in transporting a load to the carrierloss of money. I then took my truck to another ***** dealership for more diagnostics and told I need to replace the wiring between the chassis harness and ***additional cost of $1419.84. After noticing there was an issue with the **** I looked back at the technicians notes on the invoice from Iowa, Looked and did not find a DEF leak, tried to run a DEF pump pressure/leak test, cannot run test due to *** not getting any power. Has a ton of open circuit codes, unit needs new DEF pump installed. If the *** wasnt getting power that should have been addressed before moving on to replace the DEF, instead completely bypassed to replace a DEF they could not determine even needed replacing. I called other ***** dealerships and inquired about such cases, they all state if a DEF pump failed you would not be getting cel's for loss power and loss communication to the *** for that failure and in the event there is power loss you would not be able to properly acutate the pump to see if it was good or bad. So I contacted their management to ask why the technician would replace a DEF pump if he was not able to determine or run proper test/confirm that there was even a leak. Also, why after the installation the DEF pump did he neglect to check for leaks or confirm what was replaced actually functioned. His response, Some repairs can be this way. That being said it doesn't fix your problem unfortunately. Furthermore, I have talked and looked in depth to this case given our techs note were vague..
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