There are many reasons why he has
stayed with Cowan Systems. “I have enjoyed being part of a team of really good people and being successful,” Morgan said. “I love the people I work with and I feel very lucky that I found an amazing place to spend my career. “It’s really the culture of the company
and the people as much as it is that I obvi- ously enjoy what I do,” he added. “It sounds like a cliché, but Cowan Systems is owned by a family and we are all part of that fami- ly. In the trucking business you work a lot of hours so it ends up that most of your friends are the people that you work with, because it’s hard to have friends outside the workplace. “ Morgan notes that he’s not even the
employee with the longest tenure; four of the key people that he works with have been there even longer. “We’ve been through a lot of ups and
downs together; we have made a fair num- ber of mistakes along the way and have
learned from them. We have all suffered together and all prospered together. It’s as much like a family as you can imagine.”
Looking Ahead Morgan traces his involvement in
MMTA back to 2004, when he was a speak- er at the festivities honoring Joe Cowan as the association’s Person of the Year. “I began serving on the MMTA Board in 2008 after Joe stepped down and I was asked to take his position,” he said. “When I first went in I just listened to get the lay of the land and to get a feeling for how things work. Then, as you get used to the pro- gram and how things are, you start speak- ing up more, getting more involved and offering support where you can.” He became a member of the Executive Committee in 2011. The biggest challenge that MMTA mem-
bers face today is “drivers, drivers, driv- ers—not just in Maryland but everywhere,” he said.
“As far as the state of trucking in
Maryland, many of us feel like we’ve been picked on in the last few years. So it was refreshing to see Governor Hogan get in there and reduce tolls. It didn’t necessarily help every trucker—the toll reduction for Cowan was minimal, because it didn’t impact the lanes that we run regularly— but the fact that he did it is amazing to me and it’s much appreciated – certainly better than the many increases we’ve faced in the previous decade.” He would like to get state legislators to
understand the value of trucks and be less cavalier about the changes that they impose on the industry. “Many seem to be biased against trucks,” Morgan said. “That’s one of the issues I’d like to get more involved in this year, to get legislators bet- ter educated and more on our team. There are many new faces in Annapolis. We want to make them aware of what it’s like being a trucker in Maryland. We want them to
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