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The American Trucking Associations’ Safety, Security & Human Resources
Convention & Tradeshow comes to Little Rock

by ATR staff
Little Rock hosted the 2015 Safety,
Security & Human Resources National  ATA President shannon
Conference & Exhibition headlined by newton welcomes
the American Trucking Associations President & CEo of
president and former governor of the American Trucking
Kansas, Bill Graves November 2–4 at Associations bill graves
the State House Convention Center.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson
addressed conference attendees
Wednesday morning. Additional con-
ference presenters included American
Trucking Associations executive vice
president and chief of national advo-
cacy, Dave Osiecki and American
Trucking Associations vice president and
deputy general counsel, Rich Pianka.  Arkansas Trucking Association’s
This year’s program addressed david o’neal with FedEx Ground’s kim
advanced recruiting and retention tech- whigham
niques, active shooter and workplace
violence, the anatomy of an accident
and accident reconstruction among
other safety, security and human
resources topics and seminars.
“The trucking industry is a vital
part of the Arkansas economy, and safe-
ty is the centerpiece of all that we do,”
said Shannon Newton, president of the
Arkansas Trucking Association. “We  Arkansas governor
are proud to host the nation’s experts in Asa hutchinson
trucking safety and security in our own
backyard and welcome the opportunity
to learn from each other,” Newton con-
tinued.

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