Quickride Logisitcs, Inc. — DealerRefresh Vendor Library

Here is the fully sourced sales brief: --- ## Company Research — Quickride Logistics, Inc. ### About Quickride Logistics, Inc. Founded in 2017 by two dealership Service Directors, Quickride is a fast-growing, award-winning SaaS company serving dealerships in the U.S. and Canada, providing transportation solutions. The company is privately held, headquartered in Northridge, CA, and employs 11–50 people. Built by operators for operators, their software reduces time customers spend waiting at a car dealership and turns transportation services from a cost center into a profit center. --- ### What They Do **Core Products/Services:** - Single platform to digitally manage dealership courtesy shuttles, vehicle pickup/delivery, flatbed truck services, mobile mechanics, and airport shuttles. - Quickride manages all interactions with vehicles, customers, and drivers so Service Advisors can stay focused on selling; route optimization technology accounts for traffic, weather, and road conditions. - The platform includes a Command Center Web App, Passenger Web App, and Quickride Driver App. - Automatic dispatching saves advisors from manually assigning rides. **Notable Customers:** - Quickride serves the nation's largest and most influential automotive groups, including AutoNation, Checkered Flag, Bergstrom Automotive, and Fletcher Jones. - Recent dealer additions include Longo Lexus, Findlay Honda Henderson, and Future Ford of Clovis. **Notable Partnerships & News:** - Affinitiv partnered with Quickride to power *Connect Transport*, a new automated concierge solution enabling dealers to provide touchless service through shuttles, parts delivery, vehicle delivery, mobile mechanics, at-home test-drives, tire and glass repair, and more. - Connexion Mobility — developer of OnTRAC, GM's exclusive Courtesy Transportation Management Solution — announced a partnership with Quickride, providing users access to an integrated dashboard to manage courtesy transportation and shuttle services together. - Quickride participates in an Audi of America Co-Op Reimbursement Program for their Jobs Platform. - Quickride was named winner of the Fixed Operations Rising Star Award at the 2020 AWAs (Automotive Website Awards), presented at NADA. --- ### DealerRefresh Audience Fit Quickride is squarely a **fixed ops tool** — the product lives and dies on adoption by **Service Directors, Fixed Ops Directors, Service Managers, and dealer principals** who control the service lane. These are precisely the roles that make up the DealerRefresh core readership. Reducing wait times in the dealership lounge directly increases profitability, since customers not waiting are more likely to say "yes" to additional service recommendations — a message that resonates immediately with any GM or Fixed Ops Director reading DealerRefresh. **Recommended DealerRefresh Products:** - **🖥️ Forum Banners** — High-value fit. Quickride needs daily visibility with the exact decision-makers who approve service lane tech: GMs, service directors, and fixed ops leads. Banners keep the brand in front of 3,000+ active auto retail pros at the moment they're thinking about operations problems. - **🎯 Retargeting Pixel** — Strong fit for a low-cost, high-efficiency play. Quickride's onboarding is fast — dealers can create their own accounts and implement the platform in about 15 minutes — making retargeted Facebook/Instagram ads a natural bottom-of-funnel nudge for a dealer who saw the brand once and needs a second touch to convert. - **🎬 Demo / Review Video (Alex & Jeff)** — Excellent fit. Quickride is a visual, process-driven product that shows exceptionally well on video. The shuttle tracking dashboard, real-time dispatching, and driver app are exactly the kind of "show me how it works" tools that the DealerRefresh audience responds to. The Command Center view that shows all vehicles and their real-time destinations is a natural demo moment. 5,000+ views from a trusted automotive retail voice would also serve as credibility-building social proof with prospects already evaluating the product. - **📌 Sponsored Forum Post** — Best long-term value. Fixed ops is a perennial topic on DealerRefresh. A permanent, SEO-indexed post on shuttle/pickup-delivery management would be cited by Google AI Overviews and competitive search — positioning Quickride as the category leader when a service director searches "dealership shuttle management software." Given Quickride's AWA recognition and major dealer group clients, there's strong credibility to anchor the post around. --- ### About Fernando Uribe Fernando A. Uribe is the Vice President of Operations at Quickride — Dealership Mobility Software. He is based in the Greater Los Angeles, California area. **Background:** - Holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Pepperdine University (2005–2009). - From 2014 to 2018 (approximately five years), Fernando held progressively senior roles at Tru