Heavy Duty Trucking, June 2017
Hotline TRUCKINGS MOST RESPECTED BUSINESS REPORT HDT JUNE 2017 28 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM Celadon Group promoted Jonathan Russell to president and COO overseeing trucking operations President of Celadon Logistics since 2010 he has been with Celadon since 2002 Eric Meek previous president and COO resigned to pursue other interests Douglas Schmidt has been named president of the Celadon Trucking subsidiary Schmidt was previously president and COO of A S Kinard acquired by Celadon in 2014 Kenneth D Griswold joined MacKay Company as director of market strategy and sales for the management consulting and market research firm tasked with managing and expanding the companys product offerings Transportation software provider McLeod Software added Kenneth Craig as VP joining the company with experience in the product software industry the consulting and systems integration business and as a chief information officer Daimler Trucks North America appointed Jeff Allen and Stefan Kurschner to its operating committee Allen becomes senior VP of production quality and specialty vehicles moving from VP of operations at DTNA subsidiary Detroit Diesel Corp Kurschner was promoted from president and CEO of Daimler Vehículos Comerciales Mexico to senior VP of aftermarket for DTNA U S Venture promoted Mike Koel to president of U S Gain the compressed natural gas division of the company Koel is tasked with building the Gain Clean Fuel brand and generating awareness of CNG as a clean option for fleets Werner Hugo joined USA Trucks senior leadership team as senior VP trucking operations He joins USA Truck from 7 Hills Transport where he was COO previously he was VP of operations and driver retention at CRST International ON THE MOVE Carolyn Cusac Moon who owned the Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott Iowa with her husband Bill Moon has died at age 81 The Moons moved to Kansas City in 1965 to operate the truck stop where Carolyn was chairman of the board and chief information officer until December 2016 Bill Moon died in 1992 Today after 28 expansions and remodels Iowa 80 is overseen by the second generation of the Moon Family and is part of the Iowa 80 Group which owns several other truck stops and trucking related service businesses IN MEMORIAM Go to truckinginfo com readerservice and click on reader service 169 RUSSELL CRAIG HUGO KURSCHNER ALLEN KOEL GRISWOLDEZOIL_ CLEANERS_ HALF_ PAGE_ ISLAND OL indd 13 17 17 1 19 PM
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