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SHANNON NEWTON
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contributing writers
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JENNIFER BARNETT REED
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jimharris@arktimes.com STEVE BRAWNER
jdschulz50@aol.com TODD TRAUB
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JON D. KENNEDY, BOB OCKEN, JOHN DAVID PITTMAN
www.arkansastrucking.com president
SHANNON SAMPLES NEWTON
shannonnewton@arkansastrucking.com director of operations
SARAH NEWMAN SHEETS
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director of safety services DAVID O’NEAL
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corporate services coordinator KATIE THOMASON
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executive assistant CARA SPEEGLE
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Stallion Transportation Group 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
Great West Casualty Co. Executive Vice President
Vice President Transportation Distribution
Distribution Solutions, Inc. CEO, Owner
MIKE MCNUTT
BRYAN MCDUFFIE Tyson Foods, Inc.
President & CEO PHILIP MAHONEY
TOM GLASER USA Truck
J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. CRAIG HARPER
Morris Transportation, Inc. President
MARK MORRIS
Executive Vice President & COO TRACY ROSSER
Walmart Transportation Senior Vice President
FTL Custom Commodities President & CEO
GARY SALISBURY
Wayne Smith Trucking, Inc. President
VICKI JONES STEPHENS C.C. Jones, Inc. President
MHC Kenworth of Little Rock Branch Manager
President & CEO TODD VENABLE
University of Central Arkansas Associate Professor of Logistics
STEVE WILLIAMS Maverick USA
Chairman & CEO
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ARKANSAS TRUCKING REPORT | Issue 5 2015 DOUG VOSS
TIM THORNE ABF Freight
I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had on airplanes, in elevators, hair salons, even during my recent trip to the pumpkin patch about trucking. “Yes, I work in trucking. And so do many other people that you know!”
Let us take pride in our industry; our profession is vital to the American way of life. That’s the easy one.
Listening to these drivers reminds us all that our profession is noble. And that’s a story to tell. If not us, then who?
WAYNE SMITH
Maybe more would consider a career in transportation, or better, encourage their children to. Perhaps legislators and policy makers would be more eager to address the infrastructure crisis and the other regulatory challenges facing our industry.
FedEx Freight PAT REED
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD G.E. “BUTCH” RICE III
We have no shortage of challenges. Generally, the public still doesn’t make the critical connection between trucking and the standard of living we enjoy. They don’t recognize the millions spent and thousands employed to provide this service safely and efficiently for pennies per mile. How is this? With so many employees, not just drivers or executives but all of you reading along?
Whether you are responsible for making Friday’s payroll, auditing logs, selling trucking or products to the industry, you—WE—all of us—have opportunities to seize.
We all need to be trucking’s ambassadors. If we all had such industry pride and said so, we would have a more informed citizenry. Perhaps they would value safety and our commitment to it as much as we do.
This experience left me thinking, believing, how much our industry would benefit if just a tiny bit of their pride, their storytelling and passion for trucking rubbed off on the rest of us.
I was fortunate to serve on the road team selection panel. It was one of my greatest days on the job. All the candidates gave compelling presentations. All spoke passionately, with pride and hard-earned wisdom from years—if not decades—behind the wheel, about all that is right in trucking. It was truly moving. I cannot wait to get these captains in front of Arkansans to help educate motorists about safety and our industry.
Any opportunity to educate the public on how to safely share the road with tractor- trailers and demonstrate the industry’s commitment to safety is worth seizing.
JOHN SCHULZ IF NOT US, THEN WHO?
Earlier this week, at a nearby terminal, one of our newly minted Arkansas Road Team Captains did his first piece for a local news crew on distracted driving. There was excitement and nervousness.
UP FRONT
Drivers Legal Plan Drivers Legal Plan
Shannon Newton
President, Arkansas Trucking Association 7
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