A&A Truck Parts Inc.

A&A Truck Parts has been around for 35 years, a growing and thriving company that is always working hard to meet its customers’ needs. With 6 properties, 4 divisions, and more than 30 employees, our commitment and dedication to service excellence have provided us time and again with the basis upon which to build an enduring success. Our company values have been passed down to us from our founder, John O’Connell Sr., who is still active in the business today. His grit, determination and forethought laid the basis for what is today a successful, family-run company, three generations old.

A & A Truck Parts officially opened it doors in 1985, but its history starts almost 20 years prior, with the story of a young man, a truck, and an idea.

In 1965, John Sr. purchased a single-axle Ford dump truck for $6000 from the Ford dealer in Maplewood, New Jersey. An enterprising young man in search of a future, he had planned on using the truck to haul sand in the ongoing construction of the New Jersey turnpike. Unfortunately, history intervened before he could get his truck on the road, and, like many other young men of his generation, he was drafted into the Vietnam War. In 1965, he went to Washington for his basic training, and in 1966 he began serving in the 43rd artillery.