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News iN Brief, a strong team to improve the trucking ing for the planning, development,
Continued from page 11 division and grow the business into “an construction and maintenance of a safe
even more important segment of the and efficient highway, road, street and
in 2000 and during his tenure held a combined company.” bridge system that facilitates statewide
number of regional leadership roles in economic growth, thus increasing pri-
operations, including vice president of ata President naMed to good vate-sector job creation and retention.
South America, senior vice president of roads Foundation executive
Greater China, and CEO of Southern coMMittee FMcsa ProPoses new saFety
Europe. The board of the Arkansas Good Fitness deterMination
In September, USA Truck restruc- Roads Foundation elected Arkansas On January 21, the Federal Motor
tured its executive branches and Trucking Association Shannon Newton Carrier Safety Administration published
centralized a broader arena of the com- to its executive committee. a rulemaking proposal to improve the
pany with the appointment of Martin Newton’s appointment is the first agency’s safety fitness rating method-
Tewari to president of the newly created time the trucking industry has had ology by “integrating on-road safety
Trucking Division. Russell Overla, who representation on the Good Roads data from inspections, along with the
had served as executive vice president of Foundation. results of carrier investigations and
Truckload Operations, resigned at the In 2015, the foundation, formerly crash reports, to determine a motor car-
same time. the Arkansas Good Roads Council rier’s overall safety fitness on a monthly
Even more recently, Jim Craig was re-established and re-branded as a basis.”
was appointed president of Strategic foundation in order to be a more vis- “This update will help the agency
Capacity Solutions to oversee the com- ible and credible voice on behalf of the focus on carriers with a higher crash
pany’s logistics and brokerage opera- mission of the Arkansas Highway and risk. Carriers that we identify as unfit
tions., following the resignation of Mike Transportation Department and the to operate will be removed from our
Weindel, the company’s executive vice Arkansas Highway Commission. roadways until they improve,” said
president of SCS since 2012. The purpose of the foundation is to FMCSA Acting Administrator Scott
Peiser said the company now has promote adequate funding and financ- Darling in the agency’s news release.

July 14 - 16

Rogers, Ark.

JQH Convention Center

2016

Mark your calendars for the
2016 Arkansas Trucking Championship.

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