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JON D. KENNEDY, BOB OCKEN, JOHN DAVID PITTMAN No, I’m talking about something much more pleasant... football.
After 7 months without anything more than spring football, media days and those surely meaningless preseason polls, the anticipation is over.
I forgive you for thinking I was writing about the presidential campaign though. I feel your pain. I suspect—whether right, left or somewhere in between—it is wearing on us all.
www.arkansastrucking.com president
SHANNON SAMPLES NEWTON
shannonnewton@arkansastrucking.com director of operations
SARAH NEWMAN SHEETS
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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
TravelCenters of America Vice President Fleet Sales
GREG CARMAN Carman, Inc. President
P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. President & CEO
Executive Vice President & COO AL HERINGER IV
Star Transportation, Inc. Vice President
Loggins Logistics, Inc. President & CEO
Distribution Solutions, Inc. CEO, Owner
Morris Transportation, Inc. President
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ARKANSAS TRUCKING REPORT | Issue 4 2016 MARK MORRIS MIKE MCNUTT JEFF LOGGINS J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. CRAIG HARPER DAN CUSHMAN CARL BOJA ALLEN BERRY
Executive Vice President & COO TRACY ROSSER
Walmart Transportation Senior Vice President
Wayne Smith Trucking, Inc. President
VICKI JONES STEPHENS C.C. Jones, Inc. President
President - Trucking
MHC Kenworth of Little Rock Branch Manager
University of Central Arkansas Associate Professor of Logistics
STEVE WILLIAMS Maverick USA
Chairman & CEO
So even if football is not your jam, just enjoy the break from political season for a Saturday. For a few blissful hours we won’t hear… “When I’m president… or “If I am elected president…”
Right about now, I want to put on my game day gear, dig into some tailgate food and call those Hogs!
Drivers Legal Plan Drivers Legal Plan
Shannon Newton President, Arkansas Trucking Association 7 But sports are also an escape from real life and, thankfully, this very surreal election season. DOUG VOSS
President & CEO TODD VENABLE
TIM THORNE ABF Freight
MARTIN TEWARI USA Truck
WAYNE SMITH FedEx Freight PAT REED
Who among us doesn’t love a good pep talk? I haven’t ever personally been in a “real” locker room with an authoritative figure sweating, spitting and shouting life analogies, aiming to inspire me to push my physical limits and achieve greatness. But I am captivated by the locker room cam when moments like these are revealed on SportsCenter.
I don’t think you have to even like football to appreciate these type of speeches. So much of what we love about sports is how they parallel real life. Whether it’s an us-against-them mentality, or striving to overcome adversity and surpass expectations, honoring those who came before, leaving a legacy for those to follow, coming together to achieve a common goal… the tropes of sports and competition are just as familiar off the field.
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD G.E. “BUTCH” RICE III
Historians tell us that over-simplifying complex issues and sloganeering has always been part of our campaigns. Yet, in today’s multi-channel, multi-platform, always on, sound- bite selling, 24-hour news cycle, it is louder and more relentless than ever before. Perhaps though, the main reason the campaign feels so long and has worn out its welcome is simply because it is too long.
So right about now, at the end of a long hot summer, I’m just plain ready for some football and I’m betting you can relate. As I am writing on the day before the college season kicks off, everyone’s favorite team is undefeated. Athletes and fans alike are filled with optimism and hope for an unforgettable year.
Rah-rah motivational speeches are being delivered at pep rallies and in locker rooms in every college town across this country. No doubt, coaches are already scripting their rousing pregame or halftime words of inspiration and motivation.
STEVE BRAWNER LACEY THACKER
lacey@laceythacker.com TODD TRAUB
toddtraub@centurytel.net ERIC FRANCIS
eric.francis@
yahoo.com
Oh wait, did you think I was referring to the never-ending presidential election campaign? The one leaving many voters to feel that flipping a coin is as good a way as any to make their choice?
Finally! It’s almost over. And I can hardly contain my excitement. Like so many of you, with the end in sight, I found myself asking, “Is it over yet?”
THE COIN TOSS
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