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Don’t Get Stuck on Repeat

quick lube services were almost unheard of in the trucking industry 30 years ago.

Even as trucking tra c more than doubled from 281.6 billion ton-miles in 1960 to 651 billion in 1980 according to data from the Federal Highway Administration, infrastructure to support and maintain the trucks carrying those loads was lagging. Truckers would o en have to wait hours or days at a time for oil changes, keeping them o the roads and costing them both precious time and money.

Enter Mark Clark, founder of Speedco Truck Lube. Clark started Speedco in 1991 with a simple yet revolutionary idea: Bring the speed and convenience of quick lube services to heavy-duty vehicles.

“We were the first ones in the country to do that on a mass scale,” Clark says. “We pre y much changed an entire industry.”

Over nearly 25 years at the helm of Speedco before selling to Bridgestone in the mid 2010s, Clark built Speedco to 51 locations across 26 states. Though those stores would start to offer a large array of services, Clark made sure Speedco was known for its quick and reliable service as well as its impeccable treatment of its customers.

Now at the helm of Epika Fleet Services, which was founded back in 2017 and now has 42 service locations and around 550 employees, Clark is continuing to break new ground in the heavy-duty maintenance industry while still providing high-quality care and service for his clients.