OOIDA Foundation Names Director of Operations

Topics:  Tom Weakley

Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
Source: PressReleasePoint.com
23 January 2006

Grain Valley, MO -The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Foundation has named Tom Weakley as Director of Operations.

The OOIDA Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to research issues that affect truckers such as economic conditions, health/safety issues and truck equipment.

Weakley joined OOIDA in 2002 and became Project Manager for the Foundation in 2003.

For several years before joining the OOIDA Foundation, Weakley worked as a hazardous materials hauler and trained others in the transportation and handling of hazardous materials. He also worked as a terminal manager for Safety-Kleen in Fort Smith, AR, and Kansas City, MO.

He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, and a master's in education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Weakley says the research that is conducted by the Foundation is unique to the industry as it is the first organization to conduct research from a professional trucker's perspective.

Weakley is currently conducting research on timely industry issues such as hours of service, electronic on-board recorders and cost of operations surveys.

Materials produced through the Foundation are made available to schools offering driver training programs, commercial driver training institutions as well as OOIDA members.

Contact: Tom Weakley, OOIDA (816) 229-579

Founded in 1973, OOIDA is comprised of more than 133,000 owner-operators, professional drivers and small business truckers from all 50 states and Canada. With its national headquarters located just east of Kansas City in Grain Valley, MO, OOIDA represents the interests of the nation's trucking professionals in the legislative and regulatory processes at both federal and state levels.

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