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excellence achieved

Shippers recognize Arkansas Best’s Judy McReynolds and Roy Slagle for
transforming the venerable LTL carrier

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Roy Slagle
Teamwork is the secret

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By John d. schulz years of leadership within Arkansas Best of the Arkansas Trucking Association, is
Contributing Writer and ABF Freight System, its largest oper- a career ABF man who is well respected
ating unit. as an executive with a thorough under-
The pathway to achievement is “The McCullough Award is about standing of the industry and its issues.
rarely identical for leaders of even the leadership and I think that’s what McReynolds is known for her
same company. Take the cases of Judy really galvanized the thinking of our financial acumen. She honed her
McReynolds and Roy Slagle, who recent- board members on the vote,” said Bruce knowledge of finance at Ernst & Young,
ly were bestowed the highest award by Carlton, president and CEO of the NIT one of the nation’s Big Four account-
the National Industrial Transportation League. “I don’t vote, but there was a ing firms. Ernst & Young had Arkansas
League, or “NIT League.” strong preference for Judy and Roy.” Best as a client. From there, she joined
A century-old organization found- McReynolds, 51, is chairman of Arkansas Best nine years ago.
ed as the “voice of the shipper,” the the board of ABF Freight System and “When I was at Ernst & Young, we
NIT League recently branched out to president and CEO of its parent com- had a number of clients in the trucking
embrace transportation providers as a pany, Arkansas Best Corp. Slagle, 60, is business. Arkansas Best was one of my
major component of its organization, president and CEO of ABF, the nation’s clients. This company was run very pro-
and has honored the Arkansas duo with sixth-largest LTL carrier. fessionally, much like when I was in the
its McCullough Award as transportation McReynolds arrived at Arkansas public accounting world,” McReynolds
executives of the year. Best Corp. after a career in the financial recalled.
In selecting the pair, the NIT and accounting worlds. Slagle, a long-
League acknowledged a combined 45 time member of the board of directors 

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