Expert Details
Trucking Regulations, Safety and Operations, Intermediaries, Cargo Claims, Contracts, Leases, and Docks
ID: 722585
Florida, USA
He has been involved in distribution management through his ever-increasing responsibilities with his Fortune 100 employers. He has taught distribution, sales, and marketing related subjects for over 10 years at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, CA and California State University-Northridge. He is a transportation consultant in private practice.
Expert has spent his entire working career involved with the transportation, handling, packaging, management, and processing of freight transported by air, truck, rail, and ocean carriers. This includes transportation in interstate, intrastate, and international commerce.
Expert has been involved with freight loading systems on both functional and management levels. This involved designing, implementing, and managing freight loading systems for manufacturing, distribution, and warehousing operations through his employment and consulting.
Expert has operated, managed, and purchased trucking services of virtually every type and variety giving him the advantage of an in-depth knowledge of trucking services from the prospective of both operations and user. As a fleet manager and as a consultant, he has a comprehensive knowledge of the regulations, operational considerations, and industry practices applicable to truck and heavy truck for-hire services.
Expert edited and published a book in this area as well as managed the U.S. Department of Transportation Compliance preaudit services provided by his consultant firm.
Expert has consulted with over 1,000 trucking companies and freight brokers on administration; transportation rates, contracts, and leases; transportation law; safety and regulatory compliance; and State and Canadian administrative and regulatory compliance. He has written hundreds of motor carrier safety and regulatory compliance procedures manuals. Expert performed and managed on-site safety compliance reviews.He consulted with a major investment firm on the economic impact to the transportation industry with the changes in the hours of service regulations implemented by the U.S. Department of Transportation.He has consulted with numerous manufacturing and distribution companies on transportability engineering, claims control/reduction, and transportation security.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1976 | Degree: A.S. | Subject: Business | Institution: Mercy College |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2002 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Owner | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert witness and consulting services are provided by Expert in motor carrier/rail administrative law; truck involved accidents; physical distribution management; shipping dock operations; regulatory compliance; transportation economics; motor carrier/driver safety and operations; freight broker operations; passenger operations; loss and damage claims; contracts, rates and leases; warehousing; and traffic management, since 1989. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1980 to 2002 | Employer: CTC Funding, Inc. | Title: VP and Founder | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert provided administrative law representation, tariffs and rates, contracts, leases, motor carrier/driver compliance and safety consulting, and service bureau functions before motor carrier state, Federal and Canadian administrative agencies. Shippers are represented in distribution, traffic, rate issues, and loss and damage claims. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1989 to 1991 | Employer: CamTran Industries | Title: G.M. Dir. of Business Development | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert worked for a diversified transportation, distribution and warehousing company based in Oxnard, California. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1981 to 1989 | Employer: Northrop Corporation | Title: Transportation Manager and Logistics Planner | Department: Ventura Division |
Responsibilities:He had various staff and management positions such as Division Traffic and Transportation Manager responsible for all domestic and international transportation including a private truck fleet; transportation of classified goods; receiving; shipping; hazardous materials transportation; packaging design, engineering, and testing; with an annual budget in excess of $7 million. He also served as a Logistics Planner responsible for planning, development and implementation of material handling systems for design and construction of a state of the art 700,000 square foot manufacturing facility designed for manufacturing and handling explosive devices. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1967 to 1980 | Employer: IBM Corp. | Title: Traffic Manager | Department: Electronic Semiconductor |
Responsibilities:Expert worked for IBM in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont in various staff and management positions. He held such positions as Traffic Manager of IBM's two million square foot electronic semiconductor manufacturing facility in Vermont. He was responsible for all transportation procurement activities, procurement administration department, and hazardous materials procurement. He also served as Transportation Administrator responsible for Transportation Activities and functional auditing of numerous Divisional, Subsidiary, and Corporate Headquarters locations in the New York metropolitan area. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1964 to 1967 | Employer: J & T Trucking | Title: Part Owner | Department: |
Responsibilities:This was a diversified local trucking business. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1995 to 1997 | Agency: Missouri Transportation & Highway Dept. | Role: Expert Witness | Description: Expert evaluated a building in Kansas City, Missouri for its use as a warehouse in a condemnation proceeding. |
| Years: 1997 to 1998 | Agency: Missouri Transportation & Highway Dept. | Role: Expert Witness | Description: He evaluated a building in St. Louis, Missouri for its use as a warehouse in a comdemnation proceeding. |
| Years: 1999 to 1999 | Agency: Missouri Transportation & Highway Dept. | Role: Expert Witness | Description: Expert served as an expert witness for a truck accident involving a narrow bridge. |
| Years: 1999 to 1999 | Agency: Ohio Transportation Dept. | Role: Expert Witness | Description: He served as an expert witness for a truck accident involving road construction. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Expert is a member of the Association for Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy; the American Society of Transportation and Logistics; the North American Transportation Services Association; The National Forensic Center; the American Cash Flow Association; and Truck Writers of North America. |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| He is a Registered Transportation Practitioner, admitted to the bar of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, and Surface Transportation Board of the U.S. Department of Transportation, in 1978. He is Certified in Transportation and Logistics (CTL) by the American Society of Transportation and Logistics, 1986. He is a Certified Factoring Specialist (CFS) by the International Factoring Institute, 1995. He is a Certified Capital Specialist (CCS) by the American Cash Flow Association, 1998 (Gold, Lifetime Member). Expert holds a California Teaching Credential (Lifetime) since 1981. He attended the Academy of Advanced Traffic, NYC, NY in 1973. He completed the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) Internet Training Program and Testing in 2003. He is a member of the Round Table Group (Scholar, Adjunct Faculty Member), admitted in 2003. |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Expert has served as Treasurer and Board Member, Bradford/Sullivan Counties Chapter, of the American Red Cross from 1992–2001. He was Treasurer for the Association for Transportation, Law, Logistics and Policy, Los Angeles Chapter from 1982-1992. |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| He has received numerous awards and letters of commendation for achievements from the U.S. Air Force, IBM Corp., and Northrop Corp. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has one patent involving barge transportation, numerous articles, and two books on transportation safety and economic issues. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has provided expert witness services throughout the U.S. for law firms, insurance companies, and State and Federal agencies in over 1,000 cases from 1989 to the present. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| He has developed and participated in numerous training programs and seminars to transportation groups, trade associations, manufacturing firms, and bar associations. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| Expert taught transportation services and managed the transportation procurement departments at IBM and Northrop for 23 years. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| He taught marketing and sales at Los Angeles Pierce College from 1981 to 1991. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| He taught transportation related courses, business law, and ICC Law and Practice at Los Angeles Pierce College and California State University, Northridge from 1981 to 1991. |
Fields of Expertise
Department of Transportation transportation code, transportation code, trucking safety, distribution management, freight, freight handling, shipping, freight loading system, loading dock, heavy truck, trucking, regulatory compliance auditing, trucking regulation, cargo claim, barge, dock, insurance claim audit, warehouse operations, safety compliance, transportation law, drivers education, truck accident investigation, truck accident, trucking industry, cargo security, transportation safety, competitive intelligence countermeasures, business development, metal packaging process, business ethics, small business, entrepreneurship, business strategy, air transportation, trade show, finance, advertising, team building, business management, air freight, railroad transportation, package regulation, household appliance packaging process, wood product packaging, food shipping, light bulb packaging, lamp packaging, packaging specification, electronic component protective packaging, plant operations management, international shipping regulation, international shipping, hopper car unloading, hopper car loading, freight car, hopper car, household product packaging process, post-harvest fresh perishable product handling, hazardous material packaging process, distribution packaging material, fruit shipping, operational auditing, hazardous-material transportation statute, foam-in-place, moisture-barrier packaging process, semiconductor device packaging process, medical product packaging process, medical device packaging process, hazardous waste packaging process, blister packaging process, business system design, ceramic packaging process, case sealing, solid packaging process, unitizing, shipping container, repackaging, railroad shipping, perishable food, palletizing, packaging process, operations management, management decision-making, flammable material handling, containerized shipping