The Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association is planning a big jubilee for its 75th convention next year, but the association wasn’t looking past this year’s event in order to get there.
TTMA had plenty going on at its most recent convention, including the highest attendance since Bill Clinton was president. Still basking in the afterglow of the trailer manufacturing industry’s best year ever, TTMA members heard a forecast for trailer demand (the market is expected to remain firm) and analysis of the trends affecting trailer customers. A complete report on those presentations and others can be found on the pages that follow.
In the meantime, the following industry representatives will be leading the association until their term expires at the end of the 2017 convention:
2016–2017 Officers:
Chairman of the Board:
Dale Jones
Timpte, Inc
Vice Chairman of the Board
Rick Mullininx
Great Dane Trailers
President
Jeffrey Sims
TTMA
Treasurer
Menno Eby
M H Eby Inc
Chairman Policy Committee
Dick Giromini
Wabash National
Vice Chairman Policy Committee
Dan Giles
Fontaine Trailer
Chairman, Convention Committee
Rick Mullininx
Great Dane Trailers
Vice Chairman, Convention Committee
Gary Smith
Kentucky Trailer
2016–2017 Board of Directors:
Dave De Poincy, East Manufacturing Corporation
Lloyd Elias, Lode-King Industries
Steve Fairbanks, XL Specialized Trailers
Frank Flowers, General Engines Company
Jan Hoover, Strick Trailer
Jay Kulyk, Rogers Brothers
Everett Merritt, Merritt Equipment Company
Bill Persinger, Wilson Trailer Company
Lynn Reinbolt, XPO Logistics Manufacturing
John Rust, Trail King Industries
Bob Wahlin, Stoughton Trailers
2016–2017 Tank Conference Executive Committee:
Chairman
Tom Anderson
LBT, Inc.
Vice Chairman
Peter Weis
Polar Tank Trailer
Other committee members include John Cannon, Wabash National; Zach Coley, Heil Trailer International; David Shannon, MAC LTT; and Daniel Tremblay, Tremcar, Inc. ♦
About the Author
Bruce Sauer
Editor
Bruce Sauer has been writing about the truck trailer, truck body and truck equipment industries since joining Trailer/Body Builders as an associate editor in 1974. During his career at Trailer/Body Builders, he has served as the magazine's managing editor and executive editor before being named editor of the magazine in 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin.