U.S. XPRESS CO-FOUNDER JOINS LIST OF MOST INFLUENTIAL BUSINESS SCHOOL GRADS
UTC grad Max Fuller joins Sam Walton, Gen. Tommy Franks and Colin Powell
Originally published in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Reprinted with permission.
BY ALEX GREEN Chattanooga Times Free Press In the 1980s, when the trucking indus-
try was first deregulated and the modern motor carrier industry started taking shape, Max Fuller was a young man from Chattanooga with trucking in his blood and ambition in his heart. Although he had no way of knowing it at the time, he found himself milling around Europe with the fu- ture Carnegies and Morgans and Rockefell- ers of American freight transportation. Every year, truck manufacturer Freight-
liner would round up American truckers and company owners and send them on a tour-de-force through Europe, to see in- novation on display. Among the Americans were Duane Acklie, founder of Crete Carrier Corp.; Clarence Werner, founder of Werner Enterprises; J.B. Hunt, founder of J.B. Hunt Transport and Russ Gerdin, founder of Heartland Express. And Max Fuller. “It was a fraternity,” said Fuller, loung-
ing on a sofa in his office at U.S. Xpress’ corporate headquarters off Jenkins Road near Ooltewah. “I couldn’t have forced my way in to be part of that club. You had to be asked.” But the trucking giants he calls ac-
quaintances and friends are not the only prestigious company Fuller keeps anymore. The chairman and CEO of U.S. Xpress was also just named one of the 100 most influ- ential business school graduates around the globe by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools and Businesses. The inaugural list sought to find and
name global leaders from all fields who have impacted their industries and, in
Q3 2015 TENNESSEE TRUCKING NEWS 23 PHOTO BY DOUGSTRICKLAND /TIMES FREE PRESS
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