Former ATA Chairman Charles Ramorino Dies
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Charles Bernard Ramorino, a former American Trucking Associations chairman, died March 12. He was 95.
Ramorino was ATA chairman in 1996 and 1997. During this period, he traveled to every U.S. state.
Before taking the ATA role, Ramorino was Western Highway Institute president in 1992-1993 and California Trucking Association president in 1985.
Alongside his service to the trucking industry trade associations, Ramorino served on boards including those of the San Mateo County California Transportation Authority, the California Caltrans Executive Advisory Board, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Ramorino
Ramorino’s start in trucking came in the late 1950s as an expansion of a San Francisco gas station business. He named the company Bob Rich Trucking, after his two sons.
In the 1970s, Ramorino bought Schroeder Drayage Co., which was founded in 1906. The two became Bob Rich Schroeder Trucking.
Ramorino’s son Bob in 1980 started his own company, Roadstar Trucking, that in 2006 would merge with his father’s company to form Roadstar Trucking Inc. after being run side-by-side for some years.
Born in 1927 in San Francisco, Ramorino was the sixth of seven children. He served in the Navy in World War II.
Ramorino is survived by his wife, Joann, whom he married in 1955, sons Robert and Richard, daughters-in-law Carolyn and Jacqui, five granddaughters, and five great-grandchildren. — Transport Topics
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