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USA Truck Hires Craig, Loses Weindel

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USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren hired Jim Craig to fill the new position of president of Strategic Capacity Solutions. 

Craig, 56, will assume the position beginning Feb. 15 and oversee the company’s logistics and brokerage operations. He will report to CEO Randy Rogers, who joined USA Truck on Jan. 14.

USA Truck also announced the Mike Weindel, the company’s executive vice president of SCS since 2012, had resigned. Weindel earned $553,385 in compensation in 2014 and had been with the company since 1991.

Craig was chief marketing officer for BNSF Logistics since 2012. He has more than three decades of experience in the transportation industry including executive positions at Yusen Logistics and Con-Way Truckload.

“Jim brings a wealth of experience in business development, customer solutions, operations and planning from his previous roles in top-tier logistics companies,” Rogers said. “He has consistently built high-performing teams as well as carrier and customer relationships. During his tenure at BNSF Logistics, he played a key role in growing its asset-light business nearly threefold through both organic growth and acquisitions.”

USA Truck has committed to expanding SCS, its asset-light division, as shown by its hiring of Rogers, whose background is logistics. USA Truck’s previous CEOs, John Simone and Tom Glaser, were trucking experts who focused on turning around USA Truck’s then-struggling trucking division.

On Feb. 2, the company reported annual profit of $11.1 million, up 76 percent from 2014. Revenue was down almost $100 million to $507.9 million as USA Truck streamlined its trucking network. 

“With the appointment of Jim Craig to his leadership position at SCS, following Randy’s recent appointment and other additions to our management team implemented by Tom Glaser in the last six months, we now have an extremely strong team that we believe can execute on our strategy of improving our trucking division, growing our profitable asset-light business into an even more important segment of the combined company, and investing our cash flow in a manner that will best enhance shareholder value,” said Bob Peiser, the company’s chairman of the board.

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