USA Truck Appoints Tim Guin as Chief Commercial Officer

USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren has named Tim Guin its executive vice president and chief commercial officer. 

Guin takes over for Jim Craig, the company’s former chief commercial officer and president of USAT Logistics. Craig retires effective Monday.

Guin brings 30 years of transportation sales leadership to the team. He most recently worked as executive vice president of sales and marketing at Swift Transportation of Phoenix, Arizona. He also held positions at US Express and Arnold Transportation, where he was president and CEO.

“Tim has exceptional experience within the trucking industry and is well known for his customer focus and unwavering professionalism,” USA Truck President and CEO James Reed said in a news release. “Tim’s addition to the team immediately improves USA Truck’s presence in the marketplace. He brings commercial expertise, and is a great leader of people and process improvement. We are excited to have Tim join this talented team and expect his contributions to have a powerful, long-term effect on our commercial efforts.”

Last week, USA Truck reported first-quarter net income of $1 million, or 13 cents per diluted share, up from a net loss of $4.9 million, or 61 cents per diluted share, for the same quarter in 2017. Consolidated operating revenue was $125 million, up from $101.7 million in the same quarter last year; base revenue, which excludes fuel surcharge, was $110.3 million, up from $89.8 million in the same quarter last year.

“USA Truck continued its momentum in the first quarter of 2018 by delivering the third consecutive quarter of positive [earnings per share] since bringing our team together, and only the second positive first quarter EPS result in the last 11 years,” Reed said. “While we benefited in the quarter from a tightening capacity environment and strong underlying economic drivers, we also experienced unusually challenging weather, an increasingly difficult driver recruiting environment, rising fuel prices, and correspondingly tight asset light capacity.”