Show Me the Parking: Actual Solutions Creating Safe, Accessible Parking for Women

Daniel Murray has more than 28 years of experience in a broad range of transportation fields including trucking research and economics, transportation safety technologies, and autonomous vehicles.

As Senior Vice President for the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), Mr. Murray is responsible for managing ATRI’s transportation research, testing and evaluation activities, and leads multiple national activities including the U.S. DOT-sponsored Freight Mobility Initiative. He is a well-known freight subject-matter expert and is a keynote speaker at more than a dozen annual events.

He is actively involved in the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board as Vice Chair of the Trucking Research Committee, and presently sits on the Boards of the Freight Mobility Research Institute, Mid-America Transportation Center, Northwestern U Telemobility Institute and the Minnesota Freight Advisory Committee. Mr. Murray formerly sat on the Twin Cities MPO board representing freight interests.

Prior to his employment with ATRI, Dan spent several years working in economic development for a Chicago business consortium, as well as developing transit programs, policy and funding with the Regional Transit Board in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dan received his BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and his MS from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Meghann Erhart currently serves as Executive Vice President for Relay Payments, where she oversees growth and adoption of the fintech's rapidly growing new product lines.

Prior to joining Relay, she spent 15 years at Pilot Flying J, where she led various business units including sales, support, and business process improvement for trucking, while helping the organization with its digital transformation.

A proven leader with 20 years of experience in trucking, Meghann is a sought after speaker in the logistics, supply chain and transportation industries. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in civil engineering and earned her MBA from the University of Tennessee. She currently resides in Tennessee with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Allyson Hay has been a truck driver for 25 years, her CB handle is "Cadillac." She currently drives for Walmart's Private Fleet. She has 1.8 Million Safe and Accident Free Miles. She has the great honor of being on Walmart's RoadTeam as well as the Image Team with Women In Trucking. She represents the driver perspective at various events, truck shows, and hiring events. She helps drivers prepare for Truck Rodeo Competitions and is a friend and mentor.

She is a NATMI certified driver trainer and has the privilege of bringing out the best in a driver by transforming them into a truck driver and not just someone that drives a truck. She believes drivers have so much to offer the industry.

In addition, she is a Store Ambassador doing her best to solve problems around their stores, as well as being a Highway Ambassador leaving positivity along the way.

She is also certified in Food Safety helping Feed America in times of disasters.

Jennifer Hedrick, CAE, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Women In Trucking Association (WIT). Her responsibilities are to work closely with WIT’s board of directors and staff to oversee initiatives that support WIT’s mission to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles faced by them. 

Hedrick has 17 years of association leadership experience and is an accredited executive by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). For five years she led the National Industrial Transportation League (NIT League) focusing on issues across highway, rail and ocean freight transportation. In that role, she advocated on behalf of members to create efficiencies throughout the commercial freight transportation network.

In addition, she previously served as Vice President, Association Solutions, for MCI USA, where she served as Executive Director and Strategy Manager for several associations, providing full-scale management of operations, staff teams, and outside contractors. In these capacities, she also served as spokesperson for associations on Capitol Hill, before federal regulators, in trade and national press, and at conferences and other engagements. 

Hedrick holds a Master of Arts degree from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science degree from Bridgewater College.

Collin Long is the Director of Government Affairs for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. He joined the Association in 2016 and is responsible for advancing the legislative and regulatory agenda of small trucking businesses in Washington, DC.

Collin is originally from Allentown, Pa., and graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in international relations.

He began his career in Washington in 2005 as a transportation staffer for U.S. Representative Charlie Dent, R-Pa. He subsequently served as senior director of government affairs for the Portland Cement Association, representing America's cement manufacturers on Capitol Hill. During his time in D.C., Collin has worked on a variety of transportation issues.