Lance Craig of Craig
Transportation Elected As Truckload Carriers Association
Chairman for 2004-2005
 Kona,
HI – Lance Craig, president of Craig
Transportation in Perrysburg, Ohio, has been elected
as 2004-2005 chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association
(TCA). The swearing-in ceremony took place on Sunday,
March 14, at the association's Annual Meeting,
held March 14-17, 2004 at the Hilton Waikoloa Resort
Hotel in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Mr. Craig's primary expertise is serving the food and grocery industry.
Craig Transportation is a family run business that has been around since 1972
and is TCA's oldest ambassador member. The company runs 100 trucks utilizing
340 dry van trailers and operates in the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard.
Mr. Craig has a long history of TCA involvement and
service. He served as 2003-2004 first vice chairman
of TCA and has served as Chairman of the North American
Transportation
Management Institute (NATMI) and as a Board Member of TCA's Truckload Academy.
Craig is also active in the American Trucking Associations (ATA) serving on the
ATA Tax Policy Committee, Technology & Engineering Committee, and Chairman's
Membership Committee.
Mr. Craig is especially proud of Craig Transportation's strong TCA membership
record, he said, "Being elected to serve as TCA Chairman is truly an honor.
I am especially proud to represent Craig Transportation, the oldest TCA member;
it gives me a unique perspective and a deep respect for the role TCA plays as
the industry voice for truckload carriers."
The following individuals were also elected and will
serve with Mr. Parker until the next Annual Convention:
- First Vice Chairman: David
Berry, vice
president, Swift Transportation, Phoenix, Arizona
- Second Vice Chairman: Barry
Pottle, president,
Pottle's Transportation, Inc., Bangor, Maine
- Secretary: Donna Weinrich-Lucht, president,
Weinrich Truck Line, Inc., Hinton, Iowa
- Treasurer: Ray Haight, president & COO,
MacKinnon Transport, Inc., Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Association Vice Chairman to ATA: Frank
Bove, president, United Cartage Co., Inc., Gas City,
Indiana
- Immediate Past Chairman: Clifton
Parker,
president, G&P Trucking Co.,
Inc., Gaston, South Carolina
At-Large officers are:
- Kevin Burch, president, Jet Express, Inc.,
Dayton, Ohio
- John Kaburick, president, Earl
L. Henderson Trucking Company, Salem, Illinois
- Jim O'Neal, president, O & S Trucking,
Springfield, Missouri
- Robert Stranzeck, president, Cresco Lines,
Inc., Harvey Illinois
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