Dear Members,
As I am arriving at the end of my term as IACAC President, I would like to thank you all for your help and your support during this term. I also like to send out a special thank you to the Board of Directors and our Chairman, Mitch Estrada. Without their support, we wouldn’t have been able to achieve the goals that were set forth.
We were able to maintain and increase our membership, provide scholarships to three individuals, raffled off four pairs of airline tickets during our annual golf outing and made strides in national news with our partnership with the CCBFA, AfA and others on congestion at O'Hare. This could not have been achieved without the support of the Board and a few members that supported the Association.
We started out this year with meet the board/networking event. In February, we were educated by the presentation of Matt Hart from the Illinois Truckers Association. We had a great turn out for our first evening event of the year with March Madness at the Wyndham. In April, we all laughed hard during Wally Deveraux’s presentation about Southwest Airlines. We were honored in May to have Gina Summerford of Cargolux speak about their new lanes and her history with Cargolux. Dangerous goods are always a great topic and we were able to have folks from DGM come present the new rules, regulations and concerns they were seeing. August was our annual golf outing at the Bridges of Poplar Creek. We had beautiful weather and generous members who allowed us to raffle off many great prizes and raise money in support of our scholarship fund. October saw our annual visit by Brandon Fried of the AFA to discuss regulatory issues the government is proposing.
All of this work would not have been possible without the help of the board and the wise advice of former IACAC Presidents. It was a pleasure working with all you and I look forward to working alongside all of you in the future.
My role will be as Chairman of the Board and I wish my successor, Mr. Sam Krouse of DGM, continued success that Mitch bestowed to me from his term as President in 2014. I also wish our new board members Mr. Scott Case and Mr. Chuck Menini, as well as our existing board members the best of luck in 2016.
I wish everyone Season’s Greeting and all my best wishes for the upcoming year.
Sincerely,
Jim Wilbrandt
President
IACAC