Ellen Voie

A conversation with Women in Trucking founder and CEO Ellen Voie

Ellen Voie and family sit on the hood of a truck.

Welcome to Conversations with Nicole, a regular column in which Candor Expedite founder and CEO Nicole Glenn speaks with industry professionals about their experience in logistics – working with shippers and carriers; key challenges; and lessons learned along the way.  Here Nicole speaks with Ellen Voie, founder and CEO of Women in Trucking.

Nicole: You have built an amazing organization that is a voice for thousands of female truck drivers. Tell us about your history – what made you start it,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/a-conversation-with-women-in-truckings-founder-and-ceo-ellen-voie

Sparks, heir apparent to Voie as head of Women in Trucking, resigns

Deborah Ruane Sparks, the heir apparent to Ellen Voie as president and CEO of the Women in Trucking Association Inc. (WIT), has resigned to become the executive director of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA), which oversees the system that classifies commodities for transportation based on several shipment characteristics.

Sparks (pictured) will take over on Feb. 14, the Alexandria, Virginia-based group said.

Sparks joined WIT in January 2020 as vice president as part of a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sparks-heir-apparent-to-voie-as-head-of-women-in-trucking-resigns

Bluewire seeks to empower carriers to fend off nuclear verdicts

Bluewire, a first-of-its-kind AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, aims to arm motor carriers and their insurers with data to help counter false narratives that lead to damaged reputations — and potentially massive punitive damages in lawsuits.

The newly launched company believes that those narratives and the negative public image they create contribute heavily to nuclear verdicts — those commonly exceeding $10 million — against trucking companies. 

Recently, such verdicts have been on the...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/bluewire-seeks-to-empower-carriers-to-fend-off-nuclear-verdicts

Steering more women to the trucking industry — Taking the Hire Road

Ellen Voie, president, CEO and founder of the Women in Trucking Association, joined DriverReach founder and CEO Jeremy Reymer on this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road to discuss strategies for steering more women to the trucking industry.

Women in Trucking is a nonprofit organization that encourages the employment of women in trucking, celebrates their accomplishments and minimizes the obstacles women face in industry.

Voie believes that fleets can attract women by first taking a look at...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/steering-more-women-to-the-trucking-industry-taking-the-hire-road

EFS: Women in Trucking Association supports nontraditional career choices

Women in Trucking founder, Ellen Voie, talks at the Enterprise Fleet Summit.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit. 

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Women in trucking

DETAILS: Ellen Voie, president and CEO of the Women In Trucking Association (WIT), and Laura Roan Hays, chairwoman of the board at WIT and branch manager at Great Dane, chat about the history of WIT and its future goals.

SPEAKER: Voie, president and CEO at WIT

BIO: Voie founded WIT in March 2007 to promote the employment of women in the trucking industry, to remove obstacles that might...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/enterprise-fleet-summit-women-in-trucking-association-supports-nontraditional-career-choices

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