Lisa Steed Spotlights National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2026

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National Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2026 runs September 13 through 19, and for the 38th consecutive year, the American Trucking Associations is inviting the country to pause and recognize the people who keep goods moving across every corner of the nation. More than 80% of U.S. communities rely exclusively on trucks to meet their freight … Read more

The Women in Trucking Conference You Should Already Have on Your Radar

lisa steed Why Women in Trucking Need to Know About Accelerate!

The Women In Trucking Association’s Accelerate! Conference & Expo runs October 25 through 28, 2026 in Dallas, Texas, and if you work anywhere in transportation and haven’t been paying attention to it, now is the time to start. This isn’t a generic industry event with a women’s panel bolted on at the end. It’s built … Read more

You Don’t Need a Business Degree to Build a Great Logistics Company

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The Non-Traditional Path That Built Two Successful Transportation Companies Business schools teach strategy, finance, and operations management. What they don’t teach particularly well is how to read a room, build real trust with a team of drivers, or navigate the kind of human complexity that shows up every single day in a delivery operation. Lisa … Read more

Ten Years In: How Women Have Changed the Face of Transportation Leadership

lisa steed How Women Have Changed the Face of Transportation Leadership

A recent piece from the Eno Center for Transportation lays out something worth pausing on: over the past decade, women’s representation in senior leadership across all corporate sectors climbed from 17% to 29%. In transportation specifically, women now hold 28% of C-suite positions and 34.5% of supervisory roles. That’s more than just a statistic. That’s … Read more

Women Are Climbing the Ranks in Trucking, But the Driver Numbers Are Going the Wrong Direction

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The Women In Trucking Association’s 2024-25 WIT Index arrived with encouraging headlines. Women now hold 28% of C-suite positions across the industry, 34.5% of supervisory leadership roles, and nearly 30% of board seats. For an industry that previously felt nearly out of reach to women, those numbers represent real, hard-won ground. But buried in the … Read more