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Study Group: Class 8 Trucking Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 100

This study group may include experts knowledgeable on topics such as aerospace & defense, building materials, chemicals, construction, oil & gas, timber & forest products, utilities & power generation, mining, agriculture, industrial equipment and transportation, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLCJack Lifton
Managing Director
Jack Lifton, LLC

Jack Lifton is an Independent consultant, focusing on the sourcing of nonferrous strategic metals. His work includes exploration and mining, and the recovery of metal values by the recycling of not only metals and their alloys but also of metal-based chemicals used as raw materials for component manufacturing....

John Coates, Sr., President and Chief Executive Officer, The Fennimore GroupJohn Coates, Sr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Fennimore Group

John Coates is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at The Fennimore Group; a firm providing consulting services on change management, process management, business launch management, and contract management operations in the intermodal logistics industry. Mr. Coates has more than 35 years...

Jay Thompson, President and General Manager, Transportation Business AssociatesJay Thompson
President and General Manager
Transportation Business Associates

Jay Thompson is the President and General Manager at Transportation Business Associates, a firm providing planning and marketing consulting services to top-name shippers; trucking companies; financial institutes; industry suppliers; and truck, trailer, and engine manufacturers. Mr. Thompson has more...

James Cade
Executive Vice President of Maintenance,Purchasing
Arrow Trucking Co

James Cade is Executive Vice President of Maintenance and Purchasing at Arrow Trucking. Mr. Cade is responsible for managing the vehicle assets of the company and purchasing, maintaining, and disposing of used equipment. He is also responsible for fuel management for the company. Mr. Cade has more than...

Ronald Stephenson
Senior Vice President
Southland International Trucks Ltd.

Ronald Stephenson is a Senior Vice President at Southland International Trucks Ltd. Previously, Mr. Stephenson was a key market manager at International Truck and Engine (subsidiary of Navistar) General Sales Manager for multiple site Peterbilt dealerships and Vice President of Cummins Engine Co. distributorship....

David Beatson, Chief Executive Officer, Ascent AdvisorsDavid Beatson
Chief Executive Officer
Ascent Advisors

David Beatson is CEO of Ascent Advisors, LLC, a management consulting firm serving the supply chain, transportation, and logistics industry. He also serves as the CEO of GlobalWare Solutions a privately held digital and physical supply chain management company. Mr. Beatson has over 28 years of transportation,...

Thom Williams, Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.Thom Williams
Principal & Managing Director
AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

Thom Williams is the Principal & Managing Director at AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co. Mr. Williams is a recognized expert in the operational, financial, and technology issues key to profitability in the commercial freight transportation (trucking, intermodal, & ocean-marine) and corporate logistics sectors....

Thomas Jackson, Director of Market Research & Analysis, Estes Express Lines, Inc.Thomas Jackson
Director of Market Research & Analysis
Estes Express Lines, Inc.

Thomas Jackson is Director of Strategic Marketing and Research at Estes Express Lines, the largest private LTL carrier in the US. Mr. Jackson is responsible for conducting industry and market analysis, and providing business intelligence for strategic marketing and corporate sales growth. He has more...

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Minor Metals Markets Are Not Transparent And Hedging Non Exchange Traded Metals Requires Great Skill | 08-26-2008
Author: Jack Lifton, Managing Director, Jack Lifton, LLC

End users of minor metals for critical purposes, i.e., for purposes that are not economically or technologically possible without a particular minor metal, can hedge the required supply of metal by financing the producer's output, through offtake agreements, for example, and by being the buyer of last...

The High Cost of Oil, already a burden on Logistics is just starting to raise its Ugly Head | 08-25-2008
Author: Stanley McWilliams, Independent Consultant, Stan McWilliams

The high cost of fuel has significantly changed the basic assumptions on which global supply chain practices were built and current global transport costs are making it imperative that we rebalance the global logistic equation.

Chinese Logistics is like Mexico Cubed (10-4th) | 08-22-2008
Analysis of: Growing pains for China's 3PL market | www.cargonewsasia.com
Author: Stanley McWilliams, Independent Consultant, Stan McWilliams

The fact that the total market share of the top 10 logistics providers in China is only 13 percent certainly spells “opportunity”, but do not think that it will happen over night.

Trucking Company Failures & Key Indicators For The Future = Freight + Fuel + Financing + Focus | 08-21-2008
Author: Jay Thompson, President and General Manager, Transportation Business Associates

Smaller-sized trucking companies make up 80% of the industry. As failures continue, it exposes the primary causes experienced by all, individual ones that contribute for the specific company, how different parties are affected, and how others’ benefit. It also brings to light the key issues facing transport...

Car-Haul Agreement Gets Voted Down. Is a Teamsters Strike Next? | 08-20-2008
Author: John Schulz, Independent Analyst - Contributing Editor, Logistics Management Magazine

A proposed three-year agreement between the Teamsters union and the major unionized car-haulers has been voted down. No new talks have been scheduled. The Teamsters director of car-haul negotiations, Fred Zuckerman, said he hopes "to resolve this contract without going on strike." But Zuckerman himself...

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