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MHA Announces Summer Meeting Speakers As a follow up to an extremely
informative speaking lineup at the Annual Meeting in Orlando, the Machinery
Haulers Association has announced R. Eddie Wayland and Kelly Anderson as the
speakers for the summer meeting in Nashville. Summer Meeting Speakers
 R. Eddie Wayland -
KeynotePartner, King and Ballow General Counsel, TCA R. Eddie Wayland is a partner in the law firm of King & Ballow, where he supervises the firm's Litigation Section. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, and has litigated hundreds of cases to conclusion before judges, juries, arbitrators and administrative agencies in over 30 states. Eddie has represented companies in the trucking industry for over 27 years. He currently serves as General Counsel for the TCA. He has also been actively involved for years in the Tennessee Trucking Association. He is a frequent speaker on employment and labor law issues and other trucking industry topics. He also provides in-house training in these areas. Eddie concentrates his national practice in the representation of management in all areas of employment law and related litigation. He has been listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America for over 15 years. He has also been listed in every edition of the book Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers. In addition, Mr. Wayland has been recognized as one of the top lawyers in the State of Tennessee by both Business Tennessee magazine and also by SuperLawyers magazine. Mr. Wayland has twice been selected chairman of the Labor and Employment Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. Among his other publications, Eddie is co-author for the text Americans With Disabilities Act Compliance Guidebook, and was a contributing author for the text The Developing Labor Law. Mr. Wayland received his law degree from the University of Tennessee, College of Law, graduating Order of the Coif, with high honors, and served as Articles Editor for the Tennessee Law Review.
Kelly has worked in the transportation industry for the past 23 years. The positions he has held include Federal Law Enforcement Officer, Professional Driver, Driver Trainer, Driver Recruiter, Safety Supervisor, and Safety Manager over a Recruiting Department for a 1720 truck fleet. Using these experiences Kelly founded Impact in January 1998. Through his real world solution based training Kelly has become one of the transportation industries most sought after speaker/trainers. Kelly founded the Society of Recruiting and Retention
Professionals, Co-Founded the 3 largest Recruiting and Retention Conferences
in Annual Meeting Speakers "Light a Fire" Under MHA
Bill Webb puts his leadership message into action on a daily basis. You may find him traveling to Washington, D.C. to provide feedback on transportation issues to elected officials and regulators, chairing the efforts of national boards such as the Trucking Profitability Strategies Conference at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, or leading the effort to raise funds for the local organizations he supports along with his family. He has also served as National Chairman of the Trucking Association Executives Council as well as chairman of the American Trucking Association’s Driver Issues Task Force. He began impacting change at an early age. At 35, he was named the Texas Motor Transportation Associations’ “Trucking Leader of the Year,” and went on to lead that association as its president and chief executive officer for ten years. In that capacity, he served the Texas trucking industry as its chief lobbyist and spokesman. Bill currently serves as an operating partner with Fenway Partners, a New York City-based private equity firm with ownership in a number of portfolio companies in the trucking and logistics, retail, and manufacturing industries. In his position he helps lead the management of the various Fenway properties and their more than 10,000 employees and associates and is involved with acquisition efforts to broaden the Fenway portfolio. Prior to joining Fenway in 2007, Bill served as Senior Vice President, Marketing Operations and Stakeholder Value for FFE Transportation Services, Inc., the largest publicly-held provider of temperature controlled logistics services in North America. As a member of the senior leadership team, he led all sales and marketing operations, professional driver and contractor relations and worked with investors, analysts, news media, elected officials and regulators to promote the FFE brand throughout the US, Mexico and Canada in addition to various other duties. He also actively put into action his leadership concepts and practices to lead FFE's training and executive development initiatives for more than 2,500 employees nationwide. His best-selling book Igniting The Blue Flame: Answering The Call To Leadership capitalizes on his work over the past decade in developing the Blue Flame Project, a national leadership initiative. He delivers keynote speeches and leadership training sessions throughout North America. He also authors Catch Fire, a weekly leadership newsletter delivered to thousands of executives. Bill and his wife Jill, along with son Clayton, and twin sons Brandon and Hayden, live in Southlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. He is active in a number of charitable causes and currently serves as chairman of the board of both the TMTA Foundation and The Open Road Foundation, charitable organizations supporting the transportation and logistics industry.
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