Fellows
The following distinguished intermodal freight industry leaders are
Honorary Fellows of the Intermodal Transportation Institute (ITI). They
accepted the invitation to become ITI Honorary Fellows and participate
in the Intermodal Founding Fathers Oral History Program, which began
with the Intermodal Founding Fathers of North America Conference on
27-29 July 1999 in Snowmass Village at Aspen. Most were able to attend
the conference and be interviewed.
| Allen, John C. |
Ascencio, Raymond F. |
Bentz, Brooks A. |
| Boone, Fredrick E. |
Bruns, Michael J. |
Buford, Curtis D. |
| Connors, Charles T. |
Cunningham, James G. |
DeBoer, David J. |
| Frey, Edward W. |
Gellman, Aaron J. |
Gimpel, Nolan R. |
| Gray, John J. |
Greenwood, William E. |
Haverty, Michael R. |
| Hayes, Roy L. |
Howard, F.H. |
Hubbard, William B. |
| Hunt, J.B. |
Ingram, Robert S. |
Kaye, Charles F. |
| Keller, Peter I. |
Lake, Tim, Sr. |
Lanigan, John J. (Jack), Sr. |
| Lawless, Ronald E. |
Logan, Henry V. (Hank) |
Lowman, George |
| Maisch, Robert H., Sr. |
Matney, R. C. |
Miller, Gordon C. |
| Nieman, Stephen C. |
O'Neal, A. Daniel |
Orris, Donald C. |
| Passa, Lester M. |
Randall, Hugh L. |
Richter, Frank |
| Schultz, Charles L. (Chuck) |
Seehaver, J. Paul |
Shattuck, Jim |
| Shea, Walter |
Sheer, Maury S. |
Short, Reginald B. |
| Snow, John W. |
Steiner, Richard H. |
Sze, Andy Hok Fan |
| Tendler, Marty |
Tuchman, Martin |
Valentine, D.P. (Dave) |
| Volkers, Gordon A. |
Welch, Nat |
Wykle, Kenneth R. |
| Yeager, Phillip C. |
Over the next several months, the transcriptions of their oral history
interviews will be annotated and subsequently available to read by
clicking on their names.
The audio- and videotapes of these intermodal industry pioneers are on
deposit in the ITI Intermodal Oral History Program Collection at Penrose
Library, University of Denver.
Key intermodal transportation words and phrases, commonly used
throughout the interviews, can be located by using the Search Function.
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John C. Allen is president of Allen Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in
general management, transportation, and distribution in the field of intermodal.
Previously, he was president of Trailer-Train, Inc., one of the industry's oldest
shippers' agents and consolidators. Allen is a past officer and director of the Traffic
Club of Chicago and past director and chairman of the Intermodal Transportation
Committee for the National Industrial Transportation League.
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Raymond F. Ascencio is president of TransMex/USA, Inc. He began his career in the
transportation industry as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Later, he held positions
as president of Land & Rail and executive vice president and chief operating officer at
Railbridge Corporation. Ascencio worked with the National Mexican Railroad to locate
and build its first intermodal terminals and run the first double-stack train into Mexico.
He was awarded the Silver King Pin in 1978.
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Brooks A. Bentz is a senior manager at Andersen Consulting, where he has worked
since 1993. Bentz has a long history in intermodal transportation, beginning as a
brakeman with Penn Central in 1969. He subsequently held a wide range of positions,
including vice president and chief executive officer with companies such as Boston &
Maine, Burlington Northern, and Trans-Star Trucking. His varied accomplishments
include conceiving and developing a new design for the domestic container business at
BN America.
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Fredrick E. Boone is vice president of Heavy Machines, Inc., where he oversees
intermodal sales and marketing. Prior to joining Heavy Machines in 1974, he worked
for Federal Compress and Warehouse in national sales. Boone was on the board of
directors of the Intermodal Association of North America from 1992 to 1994. He
served in the United States Marine Corps from 1949 to 1970, where he was involved in
communications and intelligence, retiring with the rank of major.
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Michael J. Bruns is the founder and president of Comtrak Logistics in Memphis,
Tennessee. Prior to establishing Comtrak Logistics in 1983, Bruns worked for Spector
Freight System and was vice president of operations at Intermodal Transportation. He
is currently chairman of the board of the Intermodal Association of North America, and
he is former chairman of the board of the American Trucking Association Intermodal
Council.
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Curtis D. Buford retired in 1983 as chairman of the board of Trailer Train Company,
now known as TTX Company. In addition, he served as president, director, and CEO
of Trailer Train from 1969 to 1982. His career in transportation began in 1946 with the
New York Central Railroad where he worked in various operating, marketing, and
management positions until 1959. He also served as vice president of operations and
maintenance of the Association of American Railroads from 1959 to 1964.
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Charles T. Connors is president and chief operating officer of H&M International
Transportation, Inc., an intermodal transportation company providing a network of
services throughout the United States. Prior to H&M, he was with Maersk Lines from
1959 to 1970 in various positions, including assistant superintendent at Pier 11 in
Brooklyn. From 1970 to 1976, he was with Peak Transportation as an owner and vice
president of operations and sales, where he was responsible for trucking, distribution,
and sales.
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James G. Cunningham is president and chief executive officer of PTL Trucking in
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, where he oversees all intermodal trucking operations.
He has been instrumental in the development and emergence of intermodalism,
specifically in the area of rail/truck transport, through his work at the Pennsylvania
Railroad, Erie-Lackwanna Railroad, Consolidated Freightways, REA Express, Conrail,
and Gateway Transportation. Cunningham is also recognized as one of the three
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David J. DeBoer is president of Greenbrier Intermodal. Previously, he held positions
with New York Central Railroad, Trans World Airlines, and the Office of Policy and
Economics of the Federal Railroad Administration in Washington, DC, where he spent
six years as director. After serving in the Rail Service Planning Office, he joined
Southern Pacific Railroad, advancing to assistant vice president of intermodal
operations before leaving the company to help establish Greenbrier Intermodal in 1984.
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Edward W. Frey retired from his position as assistant to the vice president of
operations/intermodal at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
(AT&SF) in 1985, after forty-four years with the Santa Fe. He contributed to the growth
of the piggyback traffic on the Santa Fe as the superintendent of the Santa Fe Trail
Transportation Company, the truck subsidiary. He can recall that the first purchase of
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Aaron J. Gellman is director of the Transportation Center at Northwestern University.
He is also a professor in the School of Management at Northwestern. Gellman is the
founder and former president of Gellman Research Associates, Inc. (GRA). Before
founding GRA, Gellman was a vice president of the Budd Company, where he was
responsible for Budd's planning activities. Prior to joining Budd, he was vice president
for planning at North American Car Corporation. Gellman received the 1995 Salzberg
Honorary Medallion for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Transportation.
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Nolan R. Gimpel is vice president and general manager of Stevedoring Services of
America. Previously, Gimpel was chief executive officer of the Port of Oakland, where
he managed port and airport operations. Gimpel began his career as a ships officer for
various companies in the late 1960s. From 1971 to 1978, Gimpel held positions as
storage supervisor, port manager, and vice president of operations at SeaTrain.
Between 1978 and 1989, Gimpel held various senior management positions at
American President Lines, including president of American President Intermodal.berg
Honorary Medallion for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Transportation.
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John J. Gray is president of Rail Management Services. From 1983 to 1997, he was
president of Pacific Rail Services. Gray was a senior vice president at Western Pacific
Railroad from 1979 to 1983, prior to which he was president of Western Pacific
Transport. Gray is currently the mayor of Ross, California.
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William E. Greenwood is president of The Zephyr Group, a Texas-based consulting
and investment firm. From 1963 to 1994, he worked at Burlington Northern Railroad,
retiring as chief operating officer after serving as executive vice president of marketing
and sales and vice president of intermodal transportation. Greenwood received the
Silver King Pin award in 1992 and was named "Person of the Year" by Transportation
Clubs International in 1994.
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Michael R. Haverty, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas City Southern
Railway Company, has been a brakeman for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company,
president and chief operating officer of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway,
and chairman and chief executive officer of the Haverty Corporation. His
achievements include development of a partnership between railroad and truckload
carriers, creation of an intermodal corridor between Dallas, Texas, and Meridian,
Mississippi, and development of the primary intermodal route linking the United States
and Mexico.
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Roy L. Hayes retired as president of the Roy L. Hayes Company, a transportation
consulting firm, in 1984. Previously, he held positions as assistant vice president of the
intermodal division at Conrail, assistant vice president of the intermodal division at
Penn Central Railroad, and executive vice president and general manager of Excelsior
Truck Leasing Company. Hayes received the Silver King Pin award from the National
Railroad Piggyback Association in 1979.
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F.H. Howard has over 40 years of experience in the intermodal transportation industry.
In 1958 he was project manager for General Motors Diesel Limited on the "Portager"
advanced container/piggyback car. In 1971 he served as president of Halterm Limited,
a container terminal operator in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 1985, president of Alberta
Intermodal Services Limited, a third-party operator. In 1994 he was a Containerization
member of the World Bank/China team and in 1998, the CIDA/Transmode Sinotrans
Shandong team.
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William B. Hubbard graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy in 1950 and
served in the US Navy before becoming a management trainee with McLean Trucking
Company. From 1955 to 1976 he was with Sea Land Service in various capacities
from salesman to vice president for Europe and was present when the first container
vessel arrived in Houston, Texas, in 1956. He is presently developing and promoting
an Efficient Marine/Rail Intermodal Interface System, known as an Agile Port System.
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J.B. Hunt is the founder and senior chairman of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., the
largest publicly held truckload, dry van carrier in the United States. Established in 1969,
J.B. Hunt Transport Services includes J.B. Hunt Intermodal, J.B. Hunt Logistics, Inc.,
J.B. Hunt Dedicated Contract Services, Inc., and J.B. Hunt International. Hunt was
inducted into the American Academy of Achievement in 1993 and was named
"Transportation Person of the Year" by the Traffic Club of New York in 1995.
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Robert S. Ingram is currently serving as a consultant to C.H. Robinson Company, after
recently retiring from his position as vice president of transportation of C.H. Robinson in
Eden Prairie, Minnesota. He spent the early part of his career (1962-1969) in the U.S.
Air Force, after which he held numerous positions in the transportation industry with
Penn Central Transportation Company, the Norfolk and Western Railroad, Sea Land
Service, the Soo Line Railroad, and Burlington Northern Railroad.
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Charles F. Kaye is chairman of Transportation Investments, Inc., a Boston-based
investment and asset management firm. Kaye started his career at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, working on a system to track enemy aircraft and missiles. He
went on to become chairman, president, and chief executive officer of XTRA
Corporation, the world's largest owner/lessor of truck trailers and containers. In 1981,
Kaye received the Association of American Railroads Silver King Pin Award for his
many contributions to the intermodal industry.
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Peter I. Keller is chief executive officer of Automated Terminal Systems in
Washington, DC, a principal at Pik & Associates in Montreal, Canada, and a senior
advisor and consultant on international containership management for R.K. Johns &
Associates in New York. Previously, Keller served as chief executive officer of The
Cast Group Limited, a transatlantic intermodal container carrier, which he led from
near collapse in 1993 to a successful turnaround and sale to Canadian Pacific Limited
in 1995.
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Tim Lake, Sr., is an intermodal transportation consultant and currently
with Transportation Marketing, Inc. in Deland, Florida. He started in transportation with a
small, local trucking firm as an office assistant and warehouseman and continued with
large LTL motor carriers in middle management operations. In the early 1960s, he
became associated with Rail Trailer, Inc., and listened to Eugene Ryan, the owner of
Rail Trailer and co-founder of Trailer Train, tell of his visions for the future of rail
intermodal.
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John J. (Jack) Lanigan, Sr., is chairman of Mi-Jack Products, Inc. He worked as an
electrician, foreman of electricians, electrical engineer, and superintendent of electrical
engineers prior to founding Mi-Jack Products in 1955. His major contribution to the
intermodal freight industry has been designing and manufacturing intermodal
equipment, such as the 360° revolving crane and the improved overhead Rubber Tire
Gantry crane. Mi-Jack Products also designs and operates intermodal terminals
throughout the world.
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Ronald E. Lawless is president of Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec and a
governor of Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He is retired from his dual
positions as president and chief executive officer of Canadian National Railways (CN)
and VIA Rail Canada. Lawless began his career in transportation as a junior clerk with
CN's express department in 1941. Lawless received Canada's "Transportation Man of
the Year" award in 1986 and the National Transportation Week Quebec Chapter
Achievement Award in 1990.
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Henry V. (Hank) Logan is senior vice president of fleet management with TTX
Company. He spent much of his career in the financial department, progressing through
the corporate accounting and tax areas to become controller, director of financial
planning and, in 1985, vice president and chief financial officer. During the past several
years, Logan has managed a spending program of more than $3 billion to expand and
reconfigure TTX's car fleets to meet the changing requirements of the intermodal
marketplace.
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George Lowman is the managing director of communications for Chicago-based
GATX Corporation. Since joining GATX in 1973, he has served variously as manager
of strategic planning, manager of public relations, and director of communications.
Prior to his tenure at GATX, Lowman held positions as a corporate planning analyst at
USG Corporation, a chemist for United Technologies, and a research associate at Yale
University. GATX is a $6 billion service-based asset company focusing on
transportation and distribution equipment.
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Robert H. Maisch, Sr. retired as vice president of operations from United Parcel
Service, where he worked from 1949 to 1984. He describes his major contributions as
working with Seaboard Coastline in developing the use of road-railer trailers on trains
and working with Berwick Car Manufacturing to build six dolly-type cars with 18" rail
wheels. Maisch received the Silver King Pin award from the National Piggyback
Association in 1984.
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R. C. Matney is chairman and chief executive officer of Mark VII, Inc. Founded in
1989, Mark VII specializes in global transportation and logistics solutions, providing
domestic and international transportation services via truck, rail, air, and ocean.
Previously, Matney was president of American President Domestic, where he was in
charge of the North American retail business unit.
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Gordon C. Miller was chairman of Star Transportation Services, Inc., and currently
works as a consultant for the transportation industry. Among his many innovations
within the intermodal industry, he is known for developing the first circus-style
piggyback ramp with catwalks, as well as pioneering the international intermodal
industry in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Saudi Arabia, Alaska, Puerto
Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela. The Illinois Transportation Association recently
recognized him as one of the Millennium's Top 100 Influential Executives of the
Trucking Industry.
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Stephen C. Nieman is a partner in The Tioga Group, a management consulting firm for
the intermodal industry. He started his intermodal career in 1963 as director of
transportation for Consolidated Freightways. Recent positions have included group vice
president at Burlington Northern (BN) and vice president of planning and marketing at
American President. While at BN, Nieman was the first "trucker" to head up an
intermodal unit at a railroad, and he created three new domestic intermodal services for
the company.
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A. Daniel O'Neal is chairman of PowerTech Toolworks, Inc., a specialized computer
consulting and training company. He is a board member of The Greenbrier Companies
and chairman of Autostack, a Greenbrier product enabling the transport of several
automobiles in one container. O'Neal was chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC) in Washington, DC from 1977 to 1980, during which time the ICC
initiated the federal government's deregulation of motor carriers and railroads.
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Donald C. Orris is chairman and chief executive officer of Pacer International, Inc.
Orris has 25 years of senior management experience in rail, ocean, and truck
transportation and has made several key contributions to the development of
intermodalism. As president of Southern Pacific Railroad from 1995 to 1996, Orris
helped expand the company's intermodal terminal capabilities. As president and chief
executive officer of American President Domestic Company from 1987 to 1990, Orris
was instrumental in turning it into the largest intermodal operator in North America.
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Lester M. Passa is president and chief executive officer of CSX
Intermodal. He left Conrail and joined CSX Transporation in July 1997 and
served as vice president-commerical integration until November 1997, when
he was named to his current position. During his nearly 20 years with
Conrail, he held a series of increasingly important planning, logistics,
and commercial positions, serving as assistant vice president-strategic
planning, vice president-logistics and corporate strategy, and senior vice
president-automotive service group.
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Hugh L. Randall is vice president and a member of the board of directors of Mercer
Management Consulting. As such, he is responsible for the firm's worldwide consulting
activities with railways, intermodal operations, airlines, trucking companies, maritime
shipping companies, and freight forwarders. Prior to joining Mercer in 1991, Randall's
positions included senior vice president and managing director of CSX/Sea-Land
Logistics, vice president of Booz • Allen & Hamilton, and executive vice president of
Ryder/PIE Nationwide.
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Frank Richter has lived railroad transportation intensively since the end of World War
II and has enthusiastically reported the remarkable course of the railroads as they
pursued in developing the unique technologies that are intermodal. He started Modern
Railroads with David R. Watson and then became publisher of Progressive Railroading
until selling the company in 1991. He received the 1994 Silver Kingpin Award for
"Excellence in Intermodalism" and continues to write his monthly "Comment" in
Progressive Railroading.
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Charles L. (Chuck) Schultz is executive vice president and chief marketing officer of
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. Joining the Santa Fe Railway in 1970, he
worked in various industrial engineering and mechanical positions, moving to vice
president of management information systems in 1989 and to vice president of
intermodal in 1994. He was appointed to the same position for the Burlington Northern
Santa Fe Corporation in 1995. He also serves as vice chairman of the board of the
Intermodal Association of North America.
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J. Paul Seehaver is executive director of Logistics Programs, where he oversees a
network of 22 mail transport-equipment processing and redistribution facilities
throughout the nation. Seehaver joined the U.S. Postal Service in 1973. By the late
1980s, he was supervising an overhaul of the agency's intermodal service, which
resulted in dramatic changes such as run-through intermodal service between Conrail
and the Santa Fe line in Chicago. In 1990, Seehaver was named "Intermodalist of the
Year" by Intermodal Age International.
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Jim Shattuck is vice chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, prior to which he held
positions as Union Pacific's executive vice president of marketing and sales and
president of Union Pacific Distribution Services. He began his career in 1963 with
Southern Pacific Railroad, then moved to Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1970, where he
was responsible for the development and implementation of the Transportation Control
System. In 1987, Shattuck was elected president and chief executive officer of Union
Pacific Technologies, an operating unit of Union Pacific Corporation.
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Walter Shea was associated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) for
38 years, retiring in 1997 as one of its international vice presidents. During his tenure,
he served under five Teamster presidents, from James R. Hoffa to William McCarthy.
From 1964-1994, he served on the National Master Freight Union Negotiating
Committee. An appointee of the Reagan Administration, he served on the Board of
Directors of the Panama Canal Commission for 9 years in the Reagan, Bush, and
Clinton Administrations.
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Maury S. Sheer is chairman of the board of Fort Pitt Consolidators, Inc., which he
founded in 1964. Sheer began his career as a yard clerk at the Pennsylvania Railroad in
1939. From 1946 to 1964, he was president of Sheer Cartage Company, a trucking and
warehousing firm. Sheer is a founding member of a transportation fraternity of Masons
and the founder of the National Association of Shippers' Agents.
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Reginald B. Short retired in 1990 from his position as regional sales manager/ Western
Region of Norfolk Southern Railroad in San Francisco. He worked in the railroad
industry for 45 years and is considered one of the original pioneers of piggyback
transportation. Short has been credited with many advances in the intermodal industry,
and he foresaw intermodal trends toward containerization, interchange with motor
carriers, 45-foot trailers, and dedicated trains. In 1983, Short received the Silver King
Pin award of the National Railroad Intermodal Association.
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John W. Snow is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of CSX Corporation
in Richmond, Virginia. In the mid-1970s, he held positions as assistant secretary for
governmental affairs and deputy undersecretary at the U.S. Department of
Transportation. Snow received the Secretary's Outstanding Achievement Award from
the U.S. Department of Transportation, was a member of President Ford's Domestic
Policy Review Group, and served as vice chairman of the Transportation Transition
Team appointed by President-elect Reagan.
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Richard H. Steiner is a Richmond, Virginia-based management consultant specializing
in transportation-related activities. His previous positions include vice president of the
executive department at CSX Corporation in Richmond, president and general manager
of CSX Commercial Services in Jacksonville, Florida, and senior vice president of
CSX Transportation in Baltimore, Maryland. Steiner was also senior vice president of
marketing and service at Emery Air Freight and vice president of marketing at
Consolidated Rail Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Andy Hok Fan Sze is president and chief executive officer of Clipper Exxpress
Company, an intermodal marketing firm that is a leader in combining truck, rail, and
marine transport to lower shipping costs. In 1983, Clipper Exxpress pioneered a low-
cost intermodal transport service to ship frozen products to the Midwest and the East
Coast. Sze is a certified member and past director of the American Society of
Transportation & Logistics and was a licensed practitioner before the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
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Marty Tendler is vice president and director of transportation for the Ralston Purina
Company in St. Louis, Missouri. He joined Ralston Purina in 1974 and has worked for
the company in Davenport, Iowa, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Memphis,
Tennessee. Tendler is a member of the National Industrial Transportation League,
where he is on the board of directors and is chairman of the Highway Committee. He is
also a member of the National Freight Transportation Association.
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Martin Tuchman is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Interpool,
Inc., one of the world's top three international container and leasing companies.
Tuchman began work at Railway Express Agency in 1962 as an automotive engineer.
While there, he worked for the American National Standards Institute, where he helped
develop the current standard for intermodal containers and chassis. In 1987, he formed
Trac Lease and developed it into the second-largest chassis-leasing company in the
United States.
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D. P. (Dave) Valentine was vice president of RailTex from 1987 to 1998. During his
tenure there, he headed up the acquisition group and assisted the company in becoming
a leading U.S. short-line operator, growing from one short-line in 1984 to more than 25
by 1996. Valentine spent 22 years with the Milwaukee Railroad as general
superintendent-transportation, six years with Consolidated Freightways as vice
president and general manager, and 16 years with the Santa Fe Railway as general
manager.
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Gordon A. Volkers is a consultant for Greenbrier Intermodal in the area of double-stack
car technology. He was previously vice president of Aries Intermodal, Inc. and general
manager of intermodal marketing for CSX Corporation, where he worked for 20 years.
Volkers received the Silver King Pin award from the National Railroad Intermodal
Association in 1984 and is currently a member of the A2M03 Committee on Intermodal
Freight Terminal Design and Operations for the Transportation Research Board.
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Nat Welch founded the International Intermodal Expo in 1984 and served as its
chairman. A former vice president of the Georgia Freight Bureau, Welch served as the
first federal representative to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board under Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson. President Carter appointed Welch as the small shipper
representative on the board of directors of the U.S. Railway Association. Welch has
received numerous awards for his significant contributions to the international
intermodal industry. He is now retired.
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Kenneth R. Wykle is the Federal Highway Administrator in the U.S. Department of
Transportation. Previously, he served as deputy commander-in-chief of the U.S.
Transportation Command, which is the military's unified management group for the
Army Military Traffic Management Command, the Navy Military Sealift Command,
and the Air Force Air Mobility Command. During his Army career, Wykle
commanded a medium truck company in Vietnam and later taught military logistics
doctrine and operations as college president of the U.S. Transportation Center.
Oral History Interview
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Phillip C. Yeager is the founder and chairman of Hub Group, Inc., the largest
intermodal marketing company in North America. Yeager became involved in
intermodal transportation in 1959 and is considered to be a pioneer in the freight
transportation industry. His numerous awards include "Man of the Year" by the
Intermodal Transportation Association (1991), the Salzburg Practitioners Award
(1995), the Silver King Pin by the Intermodal Association of North America (1998), and
"Transportation Man of the Year" by the New York Traffic Club (1999).
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