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TCA to host audio conference

Jan. 4, 2002

Truckload Carriers Assn. is hosting an audio conference on Tuesday, January 8, that will show companies how monitoring, measuring and managing even the little things can increase trucking company profits dramatically. "Pennies, Nickels and Dimes Make All the Difference" will be presented by Kenneth C. DeWitt and F. Connor Burns of DeWitt & Dyer LLC and Tony Russell, COO of Umthun Trucking Co. Participants

Wendy Leavitt

"Pennies, Nickels and Dimes Make All the Difference" will be presented by Kenneth C. DeWitt and F. Connor Burns of DeWitt & Dyer LLC and Tony Russell, COO of Umthun Trucking Co. Participants need a telephone and internet access, and can register for the noon to 2 p.m. EST event online.

TCA said participants would receive simple, direct and practical formulas that can be implemented or reemphasized by any size carrier to assist in improving profits and reducing operating ratios.

About the Author

Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.