Empowerment, education, innovation: Growing minority-owned-business community, trucking influence

Overdrive Radio

In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, a window on the narratives that emerged from the SHE Trucking Expo, where Overdrive Radio host and editor Todd Dills spent Day One of the conference speaking to attendees and organizers about goals of network-building within and outside of the minority-owned business community. Founded and spearheaded by Chattanooga-based longtime driver/owner-operator/SHE Trucking Facebook group founder Sharae Moore, the expo was not only diverse in terms of the backgrounds of people in attendance and participating. As Adam Wingfield, former owner-operator and current head of the Innovative Logistics Group consultancy, put it, Moore excelled in bring together a "diversity of thought" as well, no doubt. The bulk of the podcast features an end-of-day discussion with these stakeholders, in addition to Wingfield, and all directly connected to Moore's efforts to build the Expo: **Professional driver and trainer Shanna Sellers, Charlotte, North Carolina **Pierre Laguerre, founder of Fleeting, Inc., Atlanta **Tristen Simmons and Tawana Randall of the Leading Ladies of Logistix group, South Carolina, Atlanta **Alix Burton of small fleet Good Energy Worldwide, Atlanta **Sunny Vraitch, CFO of PrimeLink Express, Stockton, California **Melanie Patterson, small fleet owner and proprietor at Team Integrity Knowledge Center, Chicago Presentations by Wingfield and former NFL player and fleet/brokerage owner Thomas Johnson, of Memphis, are also featured. What emerges ultimately is the importance to potential success of harnessing the power of community, of numbers, of basic teamwork of a kind. Catch more scenes from the SHE Trucking Expo via this contemporaneous coverage of the September event: https://www.overdriveonline.com/channel-19/article/15114880/scenes-from-the-first-annual-she-trucking-expo