Lee Shaffer: Hands-On Advocacy
Lee P. Shaffer is a man who knows what he wants.
As president of Kenan Transport Co., he engineered two recent acquisitions that have propelled his company to the forefront of the gasoline distribution business. The purchase of Transport South Inc. of Smyrna, Ga., in December 1997 and Petro-Chemical Transport Inc. from Citgo Petroleum Corp. in February 1998 doubled the size of the company and transformed Kenan, a successful but relatively low-profile regional tank line in the Southeast, into the largest for-hire hauler of petroleum products in the country.
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| Shaffer wants to shake the role of industry ambassador and personally fight for trucking in Washington. |
Now as American Trucking Associations’ highest-ranking elected officer, Shaffer wants to break from past practice of serving as ambassador to the industry and use his term in office to personally lobby Congress and federal agencies on behalf of trucking. He intends to spend more time in the chairman’s office at the ATA building across the river from Washington, D.C., than traveling across the country.
“If I’m going to have an impact as chairman, I will have to be directly involved in advocacy,” Shaffer said.
