International Motors, LLC
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Sep 23, 2026
Kyle DalyHOST
Yeah.
Kyle DalyHOST
Uh, one of my, one of my buddies that I used to work with at Navistar, he would race, uh, do autocrossing and stuff.
Ryan BrodbeckGUEST
Okay, yeah.
Kyle DalyHOST
And, uh, what is it? AutoZone has lifetime brake pads.
Cord CookHOST
It was a lot of fun.
Cord CookHOST
Worked with Navistar, which is International Trucks and Bluebird Buses.
Cord CookHOST
and my dad got sick at that time, and so I came home without a plan, and I've wound up, you know, I've sold digital advertising.
Cord CookHOST
I've been some version of marketing director or CMO, I suppose, for eight years going back to outdoor power equipment and tractors and all that kind of fun stuff, and now kind of serve in what I would call like a marketing strategy business development role, you know, here at Shed Geek and really try to, you know, help customers to figure out where they want to go, right? What strategy actually works.
Elena RossiHOST
Look at Hankook Tire.
Elena RossiHOST
They just got the Diamond Supplier Award from International Motors.
Elena RossiHOST
Out of 1,500 suppliers, only 10 got this.
Elena RossiHOST
That's a huge
John CooganHOST
Mm-hmm.
Scott KeoghGUEST
And of course, they had purchased a company called Navistar.
John CooganHOST
Yep.
Scott KeoghGUEST
Navistar had the heavy truck business of International.
Scott KeoghGUEST
Of course, they had the rights to Scout.
John CooganHOST
Yep.
Phil WatersHOST
And Germany, the Volkswagen company, went public and said, if we have any division of our company that's making less than a 9% profit margin, they're gone.
Tom PenningtonPANELIST
Oh, God, they own Navistar.
Phil WatersHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tom PenningtonPANELIST
Oof.
Kyle DalyPANELIST
Yeah.
Kyle DalyPANELIST
Um, that one was way above my budget and I only got it because, uh, it was in the, uh, Navistar auction when I, when I left, uh, snag it for like 150 bucks or whatever.
Kyle DalyPANELIST
So
Jason FryHOST
there you go.
Kyle DalyHOST
Yeah.
Kyle DalyHOST
Especially when I was at Navistar, we were testing all sorts of new products.
Kyle DalyHOST
So lots of times, uh, we were doing a different test for the first time.
Kyle DalyHOST
Some of them we had like repetitive tests over and over again, but sometimes we'd be trying out new things.
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Kyle DalyHOST
Well, he's completely hot rotted that entire machine, putting bigger servo motors and bigger ball screws and all sorts of stuff on there.
Kyle DalyHOST
So funny watching him, uh, go mad scientist on it.
Kyle DalyHOST
But yeah, like at, uh, Like Navistar, when we get a new engineer, one of the first things we do would go to the toolbox because I was usually in charge of training them.
Kyle DalyHOST
I'm like, I'm going to just make sure you know what all this stuff is.
Charlene AndersenGUEST
And I just kept going downhill.
Charlene AndersenGUEST
But I did graduate and I started a job at Navistar, which is really a great dream job.
Charlene AndersenGUEST
They design and engineer international brand trucks and international trucks of the split diamonds you see all over the world.
Charlene AndersenGUEST
And I was in the industrial design department.
Duncan McIntyreGUEST
Battery electric vehicles were getting more mature.
Duncan McIntyreGUEST
The technology was being adopted by big bus and truck manufacturers, global companies like Daimler and Navistar.
Duncan McIntyreGUEST
But it was really complex, expensive, and implementation and the services needed were extensive.
Duncan McIntyreGUEST
And the average public transportation department just isn't staffed or resourced to do that independently.