Prestolite Distributor Listing Now Integrated With Google Maps

Submitted by DavidC on 3 March, 2009 - 15:42

Google Maps Logo First, let me say something that isn't said nearly often enough. Prestolite Electric has the best, most qualified, most knowledgeable and highly trained aftermarket distribution channel of any company in business today. Period. These are the folks on the front lines (you know who you are), the ones that have been crawling in, under and around the heavy trucks and equipment where you'll find our products. These are the guys and girls that keep the entire world moving, because just about everything you see around you on every single day was, in whole or in part, delivered or handled by one or more of these pieces of equipment. And I just want to say 'Thank you' to everyone out there that works so hard to keep these vehicles up and running.

One of the things we've struggled with over the years is a way to let consumers know where it is they can find this expertise. To address this we've been working hard to update and centralize the information about our distributors, and have now integrated that information with Google Maps on our main website.

You'll find this information where it's always been, at www.prestolite.com/pgs_buy/distributor_listing.php, or follow the top menu on our site to Purchase -> Distributor Locator. However, we've made some improvements to the pages and the data:

We simplified the navigation by removing the 'Submit' button and by having the 'State/Province' selection box only appear when needed
We sorted the country list according to the number of outlets, so the countries with the greatest number of distributors appear at the top
We integrated lists from our sales and accounting groups, and from searching the web to provide the most detailed information we could find
We added geo-location information (latitudes and longitudes) to our internal data systems so that we can show these locations on mapping programs like Google Maps

The data encompasses over 700 distributor outlets located in 129 states or provinces from 54 countries all around the globe. You can see an example of what this looks like here:

The project includes a couple of items that have not yet been completed:

The ability to further filter the results by company
The ability to show any Buying Group affiliation within the results
The ability for the consumer to search for the nearest distributors to his/her current location

We hope to have those features added soon. In the meantime, if have any suggestions or see any errors in the information, or if you are one of our distributors and have additional locations that we are not showing please contact me directly by sending an email to dcanfield[at]prestolite[dot]com.

Location of our Austin branch on your google map

Submitted by Joel McAdams Texas Alternator
Not registered on 24 July, 2009 - 16:33.

We have 2 locations as a Prestolite distributor. One in San Antonio and one in Austin. The Austin location is shown on your google map to be in New Braunfels, which is about 60 miles from Austin. The address shown is correct, but the pinpoint is way off. Based on your map, a potential customer would think there is no Austin distributor.

Thanks for your help,
Joel

wisconsin motor distrubutor cap and rotor

Submitted by tony
Not registered on 20 June, 2010 - 11:51.

i have an old wisconsin motor without a nameplate. I am in need of a distribtor cap and rotor since i broke them into pieces when moving the motor. I did take some information off a tag on the distributor. It was not clear to read but it is something close to this. IAD 60042F 2W