Facilitated Discussions for Safety Professionals: Opportunities, Challenges, Solutions
Tracks: Operations & Safety, Professional Development
Tracks: Operations & Safety, Professional Development
Safety in trucking is important for many reasons, including lowering CSA scores, attracting and retaining professional drivers, cutting costs, and protecting your brand. And there are a wide range of issues that can have a direct impact on truck safety, including loading, driver error, speeding, fatigue, road conditions, and distractions.
If you’re a professional responsible for safety policy and/or operations, be part of this facilitated discussion session. Through this facilitated networking discussion, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from others while sharing your own experiences. Attend this session and you’ll:
Ingrid Brown, a native of Boone, NC/Mountain City, TN and lives by "Nothing in life is simple, it takes hard work and in the end it's a positive journey to success". Ingrid's four decade career as a Professional Truck Driver of diversity as an Independent Owner, CEO and as a Company driver. As well as being an Operations Manager of specialized refrigerated freight brings her experience of diversity to the trucking industry in all areas.
Ingrid has been a Women in Trucking Association charter member since 2007 and an Inaugural Image Team member since 2015. Ingrid serves on the Advisory Committee and was a panelist speaker at the 2023 WIT Accelerate Conference.
Beginning November, 2023 Ingrid became the host of 'Life on 18 Wheels' presented by WLA, Inc Trucking, of Mount Airy, NC. A video/audio podcast, Ingrid will be providing 'Life on 18 Wheels' to the transportation industry and to those interested in entering as a professional truck driver.
Ingrid has dedicated her driving career toward CMV Safety and the safety of the general motoring public. Ingrid continues to work directly with FMCSA in D.C. for safer highways. In 2019 Ingrid was chosen as FMCSA's CMV Voice of Safety Our Roads, Our Safety campaign. Ingrid can be seen and heard on billboards, television commercials, SiriusXM and major media as the FMCSA safety advocate. Brown also was a speaker in FMCSA 2020 Trucking Safety Summit. 2015 she was selected on NASTC America’s Road Team and NASTC Woman Driver of the Year. In 2018, Ingrid was a TA/Petro Citizen Driver Honoree and the Oklahoma City Petro was rebranded as Ingrid R. Brown OKC PETRO. In 2021, Ingrid was named to the St. Christopher’s Fund driver council and one of 21 on the 50th Anniversary Wall of Fame of the Mid America Trucking Show.
Ingrid continues to be an advocate for driver awareness and safety through her involvement within the industry and can be seen in numerous major magazines, radio, TV news specials, social media, podcasts and speaking engagements.
In March 2019 Ingrid was the cover of USA TODAY MONEY and the feature video of Females in Trucking.
Ingrid Brown's passion is mentoring women and others in the trucking industry by paying it forward.