Dan England Elected ATA Chairman
GRAPEVINE, Texas — American Trucking Associations’ Board of Directors elected Dan England, chairman of Salt Lake City-based C.R. England Inc., its 67th chairman.
The board voted at ATA’s annual Management Conference & Exhibition, which adjourns here on Tuesday.
“I’m honored to have been chosen by my peers in this great industry to represent America’s motor carriers, drivers, independent contractors and employees,” England said in a statement.
“The last few years have been difficult for our industry and our nation, but I’m confident that regardless of our challenges, trucking and ATA will continue to lead the country toward economic recovery,” he said.
Refrigerated carrier C.R. England is ranked No. 21 on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers, and is the largest refrigerated carrier.
England said that despite trucking’s diversity, the challenges facing the industry are so great that fleets needed to stay united to overcome them.
“We’re faced with a possible change to the hours-of-service rule, a long overdue highway bill and a mounting stack of regulations on top of a sluggish economic recovery,” he said. “In order to meet these challenges, we need to speak with one voice, remembering that there is more that unites our industry than divides it.”
England, a past chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association, succeeds Barbara Windsor, CEO of Hahn Transportation Inc., New Market, Md., as ATA’s chairman.
“It has been an incredible experience serving as ATA’s chairman this past year,” Windsor said. “I’d like to thank my fellow ATA members for the opportunity and wish Dan well [and] I’m confident he’ll do an outstanding job as chairman.”
ATA President Bill Graves called England “the quintessential trucker. Dan is a credit to his family, his business and his industry [and] ATA is lucky to have him as our ambassador for the coming year, just as we were lucky to have Barbara Windsor represent us this past year.”
