American Trucking Associations said Thursday that its board has named trucking executive Tommy Hodges ATA’s new chairman.
Hodges, chairman of Shelbyville, Tenn.-based Titan Transfer, was named the group’s chairman Wednesday at ATA’s annual Management Conference & Exhibition, held earlier this week in Las Vegas.
Hodges, who has driven trucks and owned trucking companies for most of his working life, started Titan Transfer in 2000 as a companion to his company Goggin Warehousing, a privately owned warehousing and distribution services company.
At MCE, Hodges emphasized highway reauthorization, an important issue for the trucking industry now that the prior highway bill has been allowed to expire, potentially causing devastating shortfalls in funding for the nation’s critical infrastructure.
ATA has “built our platform, developed our talking points and are making our case for a substantial improvement of the nation’s highway system,” Hodges said. “We need everyone to be engaged so that we have the best possible outcome.”
“We must inform and educate people in the government about our industry and the effect any potential regulation might have on our businesses,” he said in a statement.
Hodges succeeds Charles “Shorty” Whittington, president of Grammer Industries, Grammer, Ind., in his one-year term as ATA’s chairman.
