Improve performance and profitability

Trucking Profitability Strategies brings senior trucking professionals together to discuss best practices and emerging trends that can immediately improve performance and profitability and prepare participants for future opportunities and challenges. For 30 years this program has continued to feature leaders in trucking as presenters and panelists.

Program Information

Date: May 4-6, 2025

Times:
The conference opens on May 4th at 5:30 p.m. with a networking reception and concludes on May 6th at 11:30 a.m.

Cost: $1,345

Location:
The Georgia Center
1197 South Lumpkin Street
Athens, GA 30602-3603

Note: Unlike other programs, no suppliers or vendors attend this conference.

Contact

Headshot of Jordan King
  • Associate Director of Open Enrollment Programs & Conferences, Executive Education

“I’ve attended the Trucking Profitability Strategies conference throughout my career and I continue to come back because it’s a place to come together with other folks in the industry. It’s a place you can let your guard down, talk about things you have in common, the challenges you face. People are willing to share here, and I think that’s the unique difference.”

– Derek Leathers, President & CEO
Werner Enterprises, Inc.

Who Will Benefit

Senior trucking professionals or rising trucking professionals. Attendance is restricted to asset-based trucking companies to maximize the learning and networking experience.

Takeaways

Relevant, current knowledge of emerging trends in trucking that will help keep you competitive, knowledgeable, and able to capitalize on opportunities as they arise.

2025 Conference Topics

  • Attracting, Developing Talent & Maintaining
  • Safety & Risk Management
  • Executive Roundtable
  • Scaling Your Business
  • Equipment Strategies
  • Opinions & Advice

Sponsors

Platform Science
Carrier Transicold
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Workhound

TPS Advisory Board

Board Chair

  • Dave Fulawka
    Associate Vice President Network Analytics and Development, Bison Transport Inc. Enterprises

Program Chair

  • Robert “Bob” Lewis
    Vice President, Inter-Coastal Trucking

Past Board Chair

  • Andy Damkroger
    VP-IT Strategy and Ops, Werner Enterprises

Board Members

  • Harman Cheema
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Cheema Freightlines, LLC
  • Gary Short III
    Director – Fleet Operations, Go-To Transport, Inc.
  • Tim Harrington
    President, US Xpress
  • Keith Stelzer
    Vice President of Safety and Recruiting, Paper Transport Inc.
  • Micah Peagler
    Vice President of Strategy, Total Transportation of Mississippi
  • Jeremy Stickling
    Chief Administrative Officer, Nussbaum Transportation Services, Inc.