Award-Winning Regional Journal of the Arkansas Trucking Association
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publisher JENNIFER MATTHEWS KIDD Matthews Publishing Group,
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executive editor LANE KIDD
brawnersteve@mac.com ERIC FRANCIS
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JENNIFER BARNETT REED
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STEVE BRAWNER JOHN SCHULZ
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contributing writers art director
JON D. KENNEDY
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DEAH CHISENHALL, MARIA TEETER-WALKER, DUSTY TOWNSEND illustrator
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JON D. KENNEDY, BOB OCKEN, JOHN DAVID PITTMAN
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The ‘power of association’ is a phrase we often use to describe how the Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) has consistently performed for its member companies. Simply put, the power of association is about leveraging the collective strengths of individual companies. Conversely, the power of association describes the benefits that accrue to individual companies from the collective knowledge of the whole.
In other words, it’s all about strength in numbers. And when you consider the companies ATA represents are among the best in the business, well, consider us the Olympians of associations.
www.arkansastrucking.com president
LANE KIDD
lanekidd@arkansastrucking.com vice president
SHANNON SAMPLES NEWTON
shannonnewton@arkansastrucking.com director of operations
SARAH NEWMAN SHEETS
sarahsheets@arkansastrucking.com
public relations coordinator JULIA HAMRA
juliahamra@arkansastrucking.com
executive assistant KATIE THOMASON
katiethomason@arkansastrucking.com
special projects assistant TAMARA ROBINSON
tamararobinson@arkansastrucking.com
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD GARY SALISBURY Fikes Truck Line President & CEO
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MARR LYNN BEARDEN Marrlin Transit, Inc. President
Central States Manufacturing, Inc. Transportation Director
ALLEN BERRY
GREG CARMAN Carman, Inc. President
P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. President & CEO
DAN CUSHMAN
Executive Vice President & COO AL HERINGER IV
Star Transportation, Inc. Vice President
Distribution Solutions, Inc. CEO, Owner
Vice President & General Counsel
RODNEY MILLS USA Truck, Inc.
Vice President, Truck Sales MIKE MCNUTT
Truck Centers of Arkansas
Transportation Director SCOTT MANCHESTER
Tyson Foods, Inc. BLUE KEENE J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. CRAIG HARPER
Morris Transportation, Inc. President
MARK MORRIS
U of A/Walton College of Business Chair of Transportation
Executive Vice President & COO G.E. “BUTCH” RICE III
FedEx Freight PAT REED
Stallion Transportation Group President & CEO
Walmart Transportation Senior Vice President
ABF Freight System, Inc. President & CEO
ROY SLAGLE
Utility Tri-State, Inc. President
Wayne Smith Trucking, Inc. President
VICKI JONES STEPHENS C.C. Jones, Inc. President
STEVE WILLIAMS Maverick USA
Chairman & CEO
The power of association also spreads knowledge and wisdom. Information shared on the common issues experienced by all companies makes the whole industry more efficient. Everyone wins… or at least everyone who participates in the process.
An affiliate of the American Trucking Associations
Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) is an Arkansas corporation of trucking companies, private carrier fleets and businesses which serve or supply the trucking industry. ATA serves these companies as a governmental affairs representative before legislative, regulatory and executive branches of government on issues that affect the trucking industry. The organization also provides public relations services, workers’ compensation insurance, operational services and serves as a forum for industry meetings and membership relations. For information, contact ATA at: 1401 West Capitol, Suite 185 Post Office Box 3476 (72203) Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 Phone 501.372.3462 Fax 501.376.1810
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ARKANSAS TRUCKING REPORT | Issue 6 2013
Not all companies participate, and unfortunately for them, it’s often reflected in their lack of success. It’s fairly simple. If you want to be a winner, hang around winners. That’s why the executives of some of the largest and most successful companies network with each other—at the ATA’s meetings, forums and councils.
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WAYNE SMITH JEFF SMITH
Associations can also facilitate industry growth—either by eliminating barriers, saving money or creating new opportunities for their industry. All companies, large and small, benefit.
TRACY ROSSER
If companies sit on the sideline, they simply respond to what is given them. If they are involved in associations, they can help shape the process and determine the outcomes before concerns become all-out crises.
DR. JOHN OZMENT
The loading and unloading requirements in international, national, state and local protocol; clearances, labor laws, rules and regulations; national and state taxes and fees, all of these factors affect a transportation company’s cost of doing business. Individual companies can muster little effect on the structure, systems, costs or compliance with any of these.
Now, there are some executives who would doubt the truth of that statement. They consider themselves and their companies to be effective on their own. But consider one flat screen TV made in China. How many factors affect that TV from production to consumer?
Think about the largest and most profitable freight transportation companies in the United States. For their entire management prowess and all they do well, the business and economic climates in which those large companies operate would be much different if associations didn’t represent their interests—and so would their profitability.
UP FRONT
THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION CONTINUES By Lane Kidd, Shannon Newton and Sarah Sheets
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