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the state about six months before the
COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S.
He heard Fort Smith was a great place
to raise kids, so he and Brooke, their
son Dylan and a baby on the way made
their home here just in time for every-
“I NEVER THOUGHT I’D GET TO THIS ROLE TO BE thing to change. “We didn’t get to meet
HONEST WITH YOU. WHEN YOU’RE FIRST STARTING a bunch of new people. But our kids
OUT AT COLLEGE, YOU’RE LIKE, IF I CAN MANAGE kept us pretty busy. My daughter was
ONE OF THE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS, THAT WOULD born in May 2020, about a month after
the pandemic started.”
BE BIG TIME, BECAUSE THERE’RE HUNDREDS OF At 36, he’s a young executive,
EMPLOYEES. IT’S A BIG DEAL though not the company’s youngest
TO BE A DC MANAGER.” (Robert Young III proceeded his dad
at the helm at just 33), and like the
previous presidents, he spent his entire
career at ABF and was promoted from
within.
With each move and each role, he
had managed small service centers with
aligns with the ArcBest core value of on the tasks in front of him, he got ten drivers, single office position and
integrity, doing the right thing whether results and trusted that good things salesperson, then medium facilities, and
anyone is watching or not. would happen. then a large center with hundreds of
Of course, people were watching. In 2019, his last role was vice employees. He then managed one of the
He said, he never had to raise his hand president of linehaul at headquarters ten regions (Kansas City) as the region-
and ask for the next role. As he focused in Arkansas. Runser had only been in al vice president of operations. There,

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