NEWS BRIEF -- TransCore Vice President to Moderate Key Panel Discussion At Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) Annual Meeting

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Don Thornton, senior vice president of sales for TransCore’s Freight Business Services, will lead a panel of industry experts as they discuss metrics at the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) Annual Convention and Tradeshow in San Antonio, Texas. The show slated for April 1-4, 2009, is the world’s largest gathering of brokerage-based third-party logistics providers. The metrics session will be held on April 3 at 4:30 p.m.

“The discussion is part of an advanced educational track designed to help companies move to the next level,” said Thornton. “We’ll be exploring which metrics logistics providers should measure and how they impact the bottom line.”

Thornton will base many of his remarks on the soon to be released Broker Benchmark Survey. The 500 freight brokerage companies and third-party logistics providers who responded provided critical information on operations, revenues, margins and sources of business during 2008.

In Thornton’s role at TransCore, he is responsible for the sale of freight matching, transportation management systems, compliance services, and satellite fleet tracking and communications products. He has more than 25 years experience in transportation technology and sales, and has served on the TIA board of directors for seven years as a Director’s Circle member.

Prior to joining TransCore, Thornton was vice president of business development and technology with Market Transport and Freymiller Trucking. He has also served as an executive in sales and operations for Wynd Communications, Lockheed Martin and IBM. Thornton holds a master’s in business administration from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s in business administration from California State University, Chico.

TIA is the leading education and policy organization for North American third party logistics professionals. TIA is the only organization representing 3PLs doing business in both domestic and international commerce. With more than 1200 members, TIA is the voice of 3PLs to shippers, carriers, government officials and international organizations. The members of TIA include property brokers, domestic freight forwarders, international forwarders and non-vessel operating common carriers, air freight forwarders, logistics management companies and intermodal marketing companies.

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