100th Anniversary – Deregulation of the Trucking Industry in 1980
Our 100 year anniversary video series continues as our leaders, past and present, along with other team members sat together for a roundtable discussion around the deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980 and how our company faced that challenge. Deregulation "made a huge, huge difference. We had options ... you could charge the price you wanted to charge, you could make the runs you wanted to make, and it just gave freedom to the industry," Wes Kemp, retired ABF president and CEO who retired in 2011 after over 40 years with the company, states in the video. Moderated by newscast veter…
