Mile Marker 64 – Matt Balazs on Fleet Growth, National Accounts, and Why Mack

Beyond the Bulldog · Jul 23, 2026 · 39m

We sit down with Matt Balazs, Director of On-Highway National Accounts at Mack Trucks, to talk about growing Mack’s presence in the highway market, supporting large fleet customers, and answering one of the biggest questions in trucking: Why Mack?

Matt explains how national accounts work with large fleets, why the long haul market matters, and how the Mack Pioneer gives Mack a purpose-built product for customers who need comfort, safety, uptime, and total cost of ownership to line up. He also breaks down how fleet buying decisions are made, why relationships matter, and why selling trucks is…