STB’s Nottingham to keynote Orlando conference

STBÆs Nottingham to keynote Orlando conference Surface Transportation Board chairman Charles D. Nottingham will deliver the keynote address at the National Shipper’s Strategic Transportation Council's (NASSTRAC) annual conference and expo May 6-9 in Orlando.
   Nottingham is expected to address pending legislation, highway funding, and productivity challenges. President Bush last year named Nottingham chairman of the STB, replacing acting chair W. Douglas Buttrey. He had been the Federal Highway Administration's associate administrator for policy and governmental affairs and is also the former as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform, chief executive officer of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia assistant secretary of transportation, counsel and chief of staff for Virginia Congressman Tom Davis, and chief of staff for Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte.
   Other presenters at the NASSTRAC conference include Robert Engle, vice president supply chain for Dole Foods; Joseph Bryan, managing director of global trade and transportation practice, Global Insights; John Cutler, NASSTRAC legal counsel; Tim Lynch, senior vice president, American Trucking Association; Tom Anderson, president ANI Pharmaceutical; Joe Estrella, director of transportation & logistics network, CVS/pharmacy, as well as executives from various trucking companies.
   Information on the conference is available at www.nasstrac.org.