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Award-Winning Regional Journal of the Arkansas Trucking Association
Arkansas Trucking Report is owned by the arkansas trucking
association, inc. and is published bimonthly by matthews publishing
group. for additional copies, to order reprints of individual articles or
to become a subscriber to ATR, contact Kelly Crow at 501.372.3462.
publisher
JENNIFER mATThEWS KIdd
matthews publishing group UNITy WINS EvEry TImE
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managing editor
KELLy CARgILL CRoW
kellycrow@arkansastrucking.com With more than 70,000 industry associations—like the Arkansas
executive editor
LANE KIdd
contributing writers Trucking Association—clamoring for your membership, claiming to
art director
STEVE BRAWNER JENNIFER BARNETT REEd be a great value, how do you know if they’re really all they claim to
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SAm EIFLINg JohN SChULz be? It’s simple—check their record.
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ERIC FRANCIS Todd TRAUB
eric.francis@yahoo.com toddtraub@centurytel.net
CALLIE hoyT Fortunately, the Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) has a solid track record of
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JoN d. KENNEdy, successes: from the number of companies that stay on the membership roll, to
The Freelance Co. LLC
freelanceco@comcast.net the legislative victories we’ve won, to the services ATA provides its members. This
production editor
ShANNoN NEWToN organization is regarded as one of the better industry associations out there.
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BRENT BENNETT Its success, however, is more than councils and savings programs. It is the result of
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photographers something else. ATA thrives because its leadership is a cross-section of the trucking
KELLy CARgILL CRoW, JoN d. KENNEdy, BoB oCKEN, JohN dAVId pITTmAN
industry. From the largest fleets in the United States, to carriers that own five trucks, the
ATA Board of Directors truly attempts to represent the collective interests of the whole,
rather than the selfish interests of the few.
www.arkansastrucking.com
president
LANE KIdd Occasionally, there are proposals out there for which garnering total agreement is almost
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vice president impossible. As if the federal and state regulations and legislative initiatives aren’t difficult
ShANNoN SAmpLES NEWToN
shannonnewton@arkansastrucking.com enough to pass or defeat, we have to attempt to get the diverse trucking industry on the
director of operations
SARAh NEWmAN ShEETS
sarahsheets@arkansastrucking.com same page to address those issues.
communications director
KELLy CARgILL CRoW
kellycrow@arkansastrucking.com
executive assistant And there have been several over the years – electronic on-board recorders, truck size and
SARA AdAmS
saraadams@arkansastrucking.com weight laws, truck speed limiters, hours-of-service rules, and it goes on and on. Small
administrative assistant
STEphANIE VERdELL carriers see the issue differently than large carriers. Or, private carriers have a mixed
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ChAIRmAN oF ThE BoARd loyalty to for-hire carriers. Or, owner-operators (the most numerous of all trucking
gARy SALISBURy
Fikes Truck Line companies, albeit smaller) are abused by all of the above.
president & CEo
BoARd oF dIRECToRS
mARR LyNN BEARdEN mARK moRRIS
marrlin Transit, Inc. morris Transportation, Inc.
president president But, experience shows in this organization that if you can get the leaders of the industry
ALLEN BERRy dR. JohN ozmENT
Central States manufacturing, Inc. U of A/Walton College of Business around the same table – large companies, small carriers, private fleets, owner-operators –
Transportation director Chair of Transportation
gREg CARmAN pAT REEd and enough time is spent weighing the issue at hand, you can actually reach consensus.
Carman, Inc. FedEx Freight
president Executive Vice president & Coo
dAN CUShmAN g.E. “BUTCh” RICE III And if not consensus, you can certainly reach compromises that work for everyone.
p.A.m. Transportation Services, Inc. Stallion Transportation group
president & CEo president & CEo
CRAIg hARpER Roy SLAgLE
J.B. hunt Transport, Inc. ABF Freight System, Inc.
Executive Vice president & Coo president & CEo That unity of purpose is the most effective weapon an industry can hope to have. With
AL hERINgER IV JEFF SmITh
Star Transportation, Inc. Utility Tri-State, Inc. the issues confronting the trucking industry right now, our association and every other
Vice president president
BLUE KEENE WAyNE SmITh trucking association will do well to urge all trucking companies to gather around the
Tyson Foods, Inc. Wayne Smith Trucking, Inc.
Transportation director president
SCoTT mANChESTER VICKI JoNES STEphENS same table.
Truck Centers of Arkansas C.C. Jones, Inc.
Vice president, Truck Sales president
mIKE mCNUTT ChRIS SULTEmEIER
distribution Solutions, Inc. Walmart Transportation
CEo, owner Senior Vice president One thing I’ve found in my career here: Great associations always have the leaders of the
RodNEy mILLS STEVE WILLIAmS
USA Truck, Inc. maverick USA industry at the table. And if you want to be a winner, you hang with winners. There are
Vice president & general Counsel Chairman & CEo
many winning companies on the membership role of the Arkansas Trucking Association,
an affiliate of the american trucking
associations but we can always make room at the table for more. .
Arkansas Trucking Association (ATA) is an Arkansas corporation of trucking
companies, private carrier fleets and businesses which serve or supply the
trucking industry. ATA serves these companies as a governmental affairs
representative before legislative, regulatory and executive branches of
government on issues that affect the trucking industry. The organization also
provides public relations services, workers’ compensation insurance, operational
services and serves as a forum for industry meetings and membership relations.
For information, contact ATA at:
1401 West Capitol, Suite 185 Lane Kidd
post office Box 3476 (72203) Drivers Legal Plan
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 president, Arkansas Trucking Association
phone 501.372.3462 Fax 501.376.1810
www.arkansastrucking.com lanekidd@arkansastrucking.com
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