www.ortrucking.org 3 Issue 1 | 2024 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chair & ATA State VP Evan Oneto (FedEx) Vice Chair Erik Zander (Omega Morgan) Secretary/Treasurer Bart Sherman (Sherman Bros. Trucking) ATA State VP Nick Card (Blackwell Consolidation) Past Chair Andy Owens (A&M Transport) ISI Rep Diane DeAutremont (Lile Int. Co.) Chair Appointee Ron Riddle (Leavitt’s Freight Service) DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE Greg Galbraith (Market Express) Heather Hayes (Tradewinds Trans.) David Hopkins (TP Trucking) Charles Ireland (Ireland Trucking) Jeff Lorenzini (Old Dominion Freight Lines) Regional Representatives Central Oregon Ron Cholin (Stinger Transport) Eastern Oregon Roni Shaw (Bowman Trucking) Metro Region Tim Love (Carson Oil Co.) Southern Oregon Ryan Hutchens (F.V. Martin Trucking) Willamette Valley Dale Latimer (Ram Trucking) COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES Safety Management Council (SMC) Jennifer King (WHA Insurance) Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) Nicole Hawks-Morse (Kool PAK) Standing Committee Representatives Allied Trevin Fountain (Cummins) Government Affairs John Barnes (TEC Equipment) Highway Policy Kirk Watkins (Walmart) Image Michael Card (Combined Transport) Membership Nick Card (Combined Transport) Oregon TruckPAC Erik Zander (Omega Morgan) OTA in Action Mark Gibson (Siskiyou Transportation) Workforce Billy Dover (Tyree Oil) COMMITTEES Allied Government Affairs Highway Policy Image Membership Oregon TruckPAC OTA in Action Workforce To learn more about the committees or councils listed above, contact OTA at membership@ortrucking.org or 503.513.0005. 2023/2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OTA Welcomes the Following New Members! All members are listed in our online directory via the member portal. Compass Equipment Finance Hambre Equipment Harbor Wholesale RTC Wapinitia Land & Livestock Committee and put the skills you use to promote your company to work to promote our entire industry. Do it by raising your own company’s profile. We need examples our association can point to for the great work our members are doing all across Oregon every day. We need your ideas and enthusiasm. Perhaps you don’t work for a trucking company. Maybe you work for a company that sells products or services to trucking companies. We need you too. Come participate in our Allied Committee and give our association feedback on issues important to your industry and how they impact trucking and help us prospect for and engage with carrier and allied members alike. Our industry’s success is dependent upon each other. Come be part of the solution. Suppose you’re more politically oriented like me and want to get in the weeds on policy? Come join me on the Government Affairs Committee, where we dive into all legislation that affects our industry—from tax and labor policy to transportation infrastructure and environmental policy, we cover it all. Or maybe that bores you or overwhelms you and you just want to focus on your region of Oregon. Perfect. We have a committee for that too. Come join our OTA in Action Committee where you will learn how to cultivate relationships with your local lawmakers and learn how to educate them on issues important to your business and be ready to engage them on critical legislation when called upon by the association. Or maybe you’ve just had enough and want to make some electoral changes. Great, we could use your help there too. Come join Oregon TruckPAC and help make our industry’s voice louder in the arena of Oregon elections. As you can see, whatever your position or your company or your personal strengths or preferences, we have a committee and a role for you to participate in here at OTA. We need your voice and your ideas. I believe once you do get involved, you will see the importance of one committee in particular: our membership committee. Because you will see the importance of participating in the fight to protect our industry and you will want to make sure every other Oregon carrier is a member of OTA too. Of all the carriers registered in Oregon, OTA only calls a fraction of them members. If we are to successfully defend and promote our industry into the future, we must all be a part of that effort—no matter how big or small— there is a part each of us can play. So, I challenge you to get involved in one of our committees. If you do, you just might change your mind about that Board membership one day, like I did. See you down the road, Evan
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