About TSI Western Star (Truck Specialists Inc.)

TSI is a full service dealer of Western Star Trucks and Detroit Diesel engines. The business services and retails parts for all types of semi-tractors and trailers, dump trucks, forklifts, motor homes, school buses, and heavy-duty off road equipment. Specialized services include transmissions, engines, differentials, brakes, electronic & electrical systems, air conditioning units and loaders installations.

Our History

• In 1984, after performing repairs on a family owned fleet and 12 years as a mechanic at a Mack dealership. Bill Moore ventured out on his own to start an independent repair shop. Owners, Bill and his wife Vicki, started the business in August of 1984 as an independent truck repair shop. Bill conducted all repair services while Vicki performed all bookkeeping functions.
• Truck Specialists Inc. was incorporated on April 1, 1985 naming William as president and Vicki as vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Within the next three months, the workload more than doubled necessitating the hiring of their first technician. Workload and the variety of patrons increased continuously resulting in additional hiring.
• Within the next three months, the workload more than doubled necessitating the hiring of their first technician. Workload and the variety of patrons increased continuously resulting in additional hiring.
• In 1992 growth led to the construction of the facility in North Jackson, Ohio.
• In 2000 TSI acquired the Western Star trucks franchise determined to take Truck Specialists to a new level. Western Star Trucks has long stood for the ultimate in comfort, power, and convenience -- while at the same time providing quality, durability, and reliability.
• In 2010 TSI became a dealer for Serco loaders in effort to expand service offerings and support of many of their vocational customers.
• Together their dedication and commitment to family, customers, employees and vendors has earned a highly respectable reputation for their company. The company now has over 20 employees in Sales, Service, Parts, and Accounting departments.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to spread the gospel of Jesus by ministering to and creating prosperity for our customers, employees and community; while supplying quality commercial vehicles and reliable services.

Our Vision:

Our vision is to be a financially strong, recession proof, debt free corporation that grows and extends our reach in the market place to advance the Kingdom of God for generations to come. And, offers an environment that attracts a gifted, self-motivated workforce that pursues perfection.

Our Core Values are:

• Love
  • "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12:30-31
• Integrity
  • "An uncompromising adherence to a code of moral values, utter sincerity, honesty and avoidance of deception." Webster
  • 35 "Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or volume. 36 Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt." Leviticus 19:35-36
• Perseverance
  • Steadfastness, continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties, failure or opposition
  • "more than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" Romans 5:3-5
• Customer Service
  • Doing the best possible job at exceeding the customer’s needs by taking superior action in solving their problem and completing the job with no loose ends
  • "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." Colossians 3:23-24
• Excellence
  • the quality or state of being outstanding and superior
  • "Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men." Ephesians 6:7

Our Testimony

In late 2008 after the economy had taken a turn for the worse TSI was struggling to create a profit and for the first time in 24 years of business layoffs were necessary. With business all over struggling to survive Vicki Moore received an email about a seminar on "Economic Upturn" from Marketplace Solutions. After attending the seminar the solution was clear. Transform business to help fulfill the Great Commission; "Matthew 28:19-20 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

Growing upon TSI original Mission Statement to "... conduct business in an ethical manner upholding Christian values." We decided to integrate these values it further into the business.

On May 6th 2009, TSI was officially dedicated to the ministry work of the Lord. We had also chosen to tithe from any of the business's net profits.

By month end we experienced a significant enough Net Profit to erase all previous year to date losses.

At TSI we believe we have a greater purpose than to service and sell trucks. Our purpose is to minister to our employees, customers, vendors and community through our interactions with them in our vocation of business. Our employees are encouraged to know, even in their vocation, they can use their talents and abilities for God's purpose.

Serving God's Purpose in Our Market

God sent Jesus Christ, His only Son, so that we might have new, everlasting life. The Bible tells us, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). By His death and resurrection, Jesus paid for our salvation. He broke the power of sin and death, making it possible for us to have everlasting life.

Jesus did something no one else could do because of who He is. Being without sin, He became the substitute for our sins, and by doing so, He has removed the wall that blocked our relationship with God. He took our penalty, our sins were put on Him and He took our guilt.

Your relationship with Him can start today, and you can have life abundantly, now and forever. Jesus took the punishment that we deserve when He died on the cross and rose from the dead. Because of Jesus our sins can be forgiven, forgotten, and we can have the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

We are told in Romans 10:9 "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation."

To start a new life in Jesus Christ. Pray something like this:

"Father, I know that I sinned. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen."

If this was the first time you've ever prayed something like this; Congratulations! We encourage you now to find a local church where you can be baptized and grow in the knowledge of God through His Word, the Bible.

Please stop in and visit us for a free Bible.