QUESTION PERIOD: Kriska's Mark Seymour lays it down

[Staff]

TORONTO -- As the newly elected chairman of the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA), it falls to Kriska Holdings Ltd.'s Mark Seymour of Prescott, Ont. to carry the torch on speed limiters, EOBRS, incentives for green truck technology, and other high-profile campaigns.

Today's Trucking had a chance to discuss with Seymour his strategy on some of these issues, the OTA membership, his own "50 Best Managed" company, and more.

Today's Trucking: One of your goals is to continue growing OTA membership. What more can you do to increase involvement?

Mark Seymour: It's certainly not my phrase, but it has been said before that 'everyone benefits from OTA, just not everyone belongs.' The OTA accomplishes a hell of a lot of things that everyone benefits from. That can't be argued. For what our members get from OTA, the dues are a bargain. I'd like to encourage as many people as possible to see it that way.

TT: You have the unenviable task, as others before you, of balancing the varying -- and sometimes conflicting -- interests of all carrier members, large and small. Do you consider yourself a good facilitator since you're a grassroots sort of guy who's grown along with the board?

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