Eleven participants earmarked for future industry leadership
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Top row from left: Swart, Frayne, King, Single; Middle row from left: Simpson, Vozzo, Lockwood, Henderson; Bottom row from left: Finemore, Toerkel, Maclean
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The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has lifted the curtain on the 11 participants involved in its 2020 Daimler Truck and Bus Future Leaders’ Forum.
The first stage of the 2020 forum will be held on November 25-26 in Canberra.
There, participants will develop their potential as future leaders of the trucking industry, with mentorship from experts in leadership, media and political training.
As well as participating in intensive workshops in Canberra, the 2020 Future Leaders will each complete a take-home leadership project on a key industry issue, which will be presented at Trucking Australia 2020, in Cairns from April 1-3.
“The 2018 and 2019 forums were incredibly successful, and we are once again thrilled to welcome the next generation of Australia’s trucking leaders to take part in this career-defining program,” ATA chair Geoff Crouch says.
“Our 2020 Future Leaders come from a range of backgrounds and roles within the industry including drivers, directors, and compliance and risk managers.
“I am confident our 2020 Future Leaders have the passion and expertise to make a positive change.”
Daimler Truck and Bus Australia president and CEO Daniel Whitehead welcomes the 2020 cohort of Daimler Future Leaders.
“We are excited to see such a strong group of participants announced for the Daimler Truck and Bus Future Leaders’ Forum,” Whitehead says.
“Daimler Truck and Bus is committed to supporting the development of the next generation of leaders in the transport industry, to ensure our best and brightest can help the sector excel in a rapidly-changing world.”
See the 2019 future leaders and their achievements, here
The line-up includes:
Matt Henderson (Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association)
Henderson is managing director at MDH Transport, based in Western Australia. Passionate about the trucking industry, he has been a committee member of the LRTAWA for three years and was recently elected to the role of vice president. Henderson’s leadership project focuses on recruiting and retaining staff and creating pathways for young people to become involved in the transport industry. His project aims to increase the level of skilled operators and positively impact the current aging workforce
Maddie Frayne (Daimler Truck and Bus)
Frayne is marketing manager at Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus, based in Victoria. Her leadership project proposes to explore how the trucking industry and its stakeholders are supporting small operators to achieve greater business efficiency, as well as identifying how to remove barriers that stand in the way of these operators adopting new technologies. Frayne’s key project outcome is to increase operators’ profitability and productivity.
Kent Single (NatRoad)
Single is managing director of family business Single Transport in Queensland. He is responsible for rewriting policies and procedures, the company’s TruckSafe audits and basic fatigue management while also driving full-time. Single’s leadership project centres on small businesses and industry image, with focus on succession planning, protecting assets outside the business and interaction with heavy vehicles and the general public.
Jared Swart (NT Road Transport Association)
Swart is a driver and yard hand at Sitzler Pty Ltd in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Having grown up surrounded by all aspects of his family’s road transport operations, he is keen to explore recruiting and retaining young workers, and better understand the barriers experienced by both employers and prospective employees. Swart’s leadership project will look at developing a series of fact sheets for employers and young job seekers that are designed to ‘bust myths’ and identify career pathways for long term job opportunities in the trucking industry.
Raphael Toerkel (Queensland Trucking Association)
Toerkel is fleet manager of IKEA operations at All Purpose Transport in Queensland. He started work with All Purpose Transport as a casual during high school, before undertaking fulltime work while completing a Bachelor of Business Administration. Toerkel’s leadership project explores technological change and innovation in the industry with a particular focus on electrical vehicles, including compliance, registration, training and maintenance.
Rob Vozzo (Road Freight NSW)
Vozzo is operations manager at JJ Lawson in NSW. His leadership project centres on strategy development for young driver recruitment and retention in response to industry demand for skilled workers. Vozzo’s project explores employee attraction, development and retention in 2020 and beyond, with a focus on refreshing industry image and embracing technology to attract the younger workforce.
Vanessa Maclean (Transafe WA)
Maclean is accountant at MGM Bulk with the MGM Group, based in Eaton, Western Australia. Her leadership project will explore the development of an apprenticeship scheme to ensure the sustainability of the transport industry through driver training. Maclean’s project aims to create a formal program based on the apprenticeship framework that provides benefits and opportunities to both potential trainees and businesses. Vanessa’s project also aims to improve industry image by making Australia’s roads safer and increasing safety within the driving profession.
Sarah Simpson (TruckSafe)
Simpson is risk and administration manager at I & M Simpson & Son, a third-generation family business based in Alexandra, Victoria. Her leadership project focuses on business operations and management, as well as technological change and innovation in the industry. Her project is to build and implement a digital management program that enables staff to recognise and control safety and business risks. Simpson also plans to develop a system to capture and analyse industry-wide incident and near-miss reporting data to benefit small businesses and sole trucking operators through shared learning.
Justin King (Tasmanian Transport Association)
King is WH&S, HR and compliance manager at Monson Logistics in Miandetta, Tasmania. His leadership project will explore recruiting and retaining staff, working with industry groups to develop a program of events that will support attraction, recruitment, development and retention of young people in roles across the industry. King’s project will include profiling young people to understand what will attract them to the industry, while developing strategies and material to encourage young people to enter the industry’s workforce.
Matthew Finemore (Victorian Transport Association)
Finemore is customer performance analyst at Ron Finemore Transport. His leadership project will analyse the costs of extended payment terms within the transport supply chain, following legislation introduced by the Victorian government in May requiring 30-day payment terms for trucking operators. Through simulated modelling, Finemore intends to illustrate the consequences of extended payment terms under various revenue and payment term structures for multiple size firms.
Rick Lockwood (Western Roads Federation)
Lockwood is general manager of KTrans, based in Kewdale, Western Australia. Exploring opportunities to recruit and retain staff, his leadership project will focus on promoting the trucking industry to existing veterans and current personnel seeking to leave the Australian Defence Force. Lockwood is a strong believer in promoting the industry to Defence and veterans as an industry that welcomes the broad range of skills Defence personnel acquire through their service.