Batts leaves Truckload Carriers Association as it merges with ATA
By Staff -- Logistics Management, 3/1/2000
Lana Batts, one of the trucking industry's most ardent advocates, will resign as president of the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) at the end of March. Her resignation comes at the same time that the association will integrate with the American Trucking Associations.Batts headed the TCA for more than five years. During her tenure, she was an outspoken supporter of truck drivers as professionals who should be treated with greater respect at the nation's shipping and receiving docks. One of her final efforts was the formation of a joint shipper and carrier group, dubbed "Just in Time ... to Wait." That group is involved in several projects that are aimed at reducing the problems drivers experience at shippers' docks.
Batts has been in the trucking industry for 28 years. She became president of the Interstate Truckload Carriers Conference (the predecessor to the Truckload Carriers Conference) in 1994, the first woman named to the post in the group's 62-year history.
She began her career in trucking as a transportation analyst for the American Trucking Associations in 1972. She became director of energy for the group during the 1973 Arab oil embargo and later was promoted to senior vice president of government affairs.
In 1997, she was named "Woman of the Year" by the Women's Transportation Seminar. She is the former president of the Transportation Research Forum and served on the boards of the ATA Foundation and Eno Transportation Foundation. She is a past member of the Federal Highway Administration's Motor Carrier Advisory Committee and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Motor Vehicle Safety Research Advisory Committee. She is a recipient of the S. Earl Dove award, a trucking industry honor.
Batts is a native of Montana. She was a member of the 1967-68 winter Olympics luge team.
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