customers. “In my eyes, I see right and I see wrong,” he said. “I don’t see gray areas, and that’s the way I try to run the company. If I’m wrong, I’m going to make it right.” Levine was active many years ago in the
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Movers and Warehousemen’s Association of Maryland. At one point he became dis- couraged – too much talk, not enough action – and stopped actively participating. That group later merged with MMTA to form the Maryland Movers Conference. Eventually he was invited to a board meet- ing, and then asked to be on the board. Soon thereafter Alex Klemko of Moving Masters asked him to serve as vice-chair. In 2006 he became the Conference’s chair- man, filling a two year appointment until his term expired in 2008. Levine made sure his time leading the
Conference counted. Before his term, the board met four times a year. He instituted monthly meetings along with subcommit- tees. He also tried to persuade the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation to create a registration pro- gram for moving companies. The depart- ment didn’t have the funding or personnel to do it, but a voluntary program formed by the Conference is filling that role and still exists. “I wanted to make a difference,” he said.
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“I didn’t want to be chairman just to be chairman. I wanted to make a difference for the moving industry in the state of Maryland.” Levine’s chairmanship of the Conference
meant he also became a member of the MMTA board of directors, where he has served since 2006. He tried to spend his first year learning about the Association, its operations, and the many types of com- panies that it represents. “You have every walk of life in trucking,
and although I really understood moving, I wanted to become familiar with the rest of the industry. Each has its own specialty,” he says. Levine is aware that he’s a mover head-
ing an organization composed mostly of freight haulers. But while the missions are different, the problems are similar. Every motor carrier struggles to find drivers, and every motor carrier deals with burdensome
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