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Six Educational Areas of Focus to ensure you receive information most relevant to your career.
This insightful session will walk you through key economic indicators that will help to assess current market conditions in the trucking industry, the economic drivers of freight transportation, and the expected outlooks for truck freight volume, capacity, and rates through 2025.
The transportation industry is grappling with escalating levels of fraud, scams and theft, which have been worsened by advancements in technology and a rocky freight market. Learn how to protect your organization, understand the red flags to watch out for, and critical data points to consider to minimize potential risk.
Every day along our highways and in our communities, people are forced to sell sex as victims of human trafficking at truck stops, rest areas, hotels/motels, private homes in our communities and other locations. Learn how your company can get involved in this effort and become a changemaker in this fight.
This session, featuring a panel of the industry’s most-respected subject matter experts on autonomous trucking, will dive into the latest developments and commercial deployment progress, the impact it’s poised to make on logistics and transportation, and the pivotal role women are playing in this evolving field.
There is so much good that comes from women paving the way in our industry - we can all better support each other no matter where we are in the corporate ladder. Attend this session to gain advice and perspectives from the ground floor of a technician to a general manager and operational executive leader.
This session assembles leading subject matter experts on safety and health challenges involving drug and alcohol use for workforces in the transportation industry. Learn practical advice on how professional truck drivers and companies with fleets can remain compliant, avoid fines and, most importantly, staying safe on the roads.
Attend this session to explore the benefits of the latest version of electric fleets, hear about current roadblocks and potential solutions, and better understand how EV technology can positively impact female professional truck drivers.
How do you create an environment that enables all people to thrive every day? It has to be within your organization’s DNA and mission. Triumph Financial (TFIN) is a success story for this framework as women represent 63% of their team members. They will share important touchstones for success.
A panel discussion led by female attorneys will cover top legal trends affecting the trucking industry such as nuclear verdicts, jurisdictional overreach, predatory towing, privacy, IC reclassification, testing for cannabis use, freight brokerage concerns, and municipal regulation of trucks.
Everyone has talked about the truck parking crisis for years, so the question becomes: What is the industry doing about it? Gain insights from trucking industry leaders and drivers themselves on actual solutions being presented to address this significant industry challenge.
As new technologies advance, your security practices (or lack thereof) will make or break your company's credibility – whether your company is a major or micro enterprise in transportation. Attend this session to better understand how to do risk assessment and subsequently identify security priorities that can be incorporated into your cybersecurity protection strategy.
From individual driver behavior to wider fleet practices, there is a significant amount of strategy and resources that can be applied to safe and successful fleet performance. During this session, safety experts will share their expertise on how to build a safety-first culture in various areas that can help improve fleet safety.
If you’re a professional responsible for safety policy and/or operations, be part of this facilitated networking discussion. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from others while sharing your own experiences.
Gain knowledge and perspectives from one of the most seasoned and well-respected economists in the industry about current market reports on trucking, railroads and ocean – and everything in-between.