Represent the commercial interests of political and industrial relations in the motor trade companies (Mechanical repairers, crash repairers, tire dealers, new car dealers and used, etc.), the new body replaces the old fragmented Motor Association trades Australia, MTAA.
The old body, in addition to representing the state of the motor trade body in Canberra, has played an important role in engine management industry pension funds - MTAA Super.
Disagreements over the management and direction MTAA however, after simmering for several years, came to a head when VACC representing Victoria, and MTA-Q, which represents Queensland, withdrew their membership of the national body. When MTA-NSW followed soon after, was all-but MTAA isolated, without an actual accession.