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GOOD

THINGS

New ABF President Seth Runser’s

optimism and trust

By Bethany May It was 2007. He was in college at Kent State in Ohio, and
Managing Editor his roommate was getting ready to marry his high school
sweetheart. The bride and groom went out for the bach-
To land your current job, did you answer a wanted ad, elor and bachelorette parties, and the two groups met up at
grow up in the family business, attend a career fair? All valid the end of the night. One of the bridesmaids had just been
ways to find a job in the trucking industry. recruited at ABF Freight, a company completely unfamiliar to
For Seth Runser, new president of ABF Freight, he discov- Runser as an undergrad. “She told me all about it and said,
ered the company he now runs in an unusual place. When ‘I think you’d be a good fit there.’ So I applied with no idea
asked how he entered the industry, Runser teases, “There’s a what I was getting into and showed up for the interview.”
kind of a crazy story.” His friends got married, and he found a job.
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