{"id":3625,"date":"2023-11-10T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/trucks-for-change-welcomes-new-board-members\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:41:48","slug":"trucks-for-change-welcomes-new-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/trucks-for-change-welcomes-new-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucks For Change Welcomes New Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent Annual General Meeting in Toronto, the Trucks for Change Network announced the appointment of\u00a0Trevor Sawkins, Chief Operating Officer, ColdStar Solutions (BC)\u00a0and\u00a0Trevor Bent, CEO of Eassons Transport Limited (NS)\u00a0to its board of directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\">\u201cBoth ColdStar Solutions and Eassons Transport are companies committed to people and fully invested in the communities they serve,\u201d said Betsy Sharples, Executive Director, Trucks for Change Network. \u201cWe look forward to them bringing that focus and energy to supporting our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the trucking industry is in a very competitive market, it is made up of companies, many of whom are still family-run businesses, with deep roots in their local community,\u201d said Scott Smith, board chair, Trucks for Change Network. \u201cWhile the companies may have evolved in scope, their values remain fixed on social responsibility and giving back to the communities they serve. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Trucks For Change is a network of community-minded trucking and logistics companies supporting charitable organizations in their communities and across Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\">Member organizations provide time, energy, expertise and support to charities to move goods and participate in community events and activities, all with the generous support of the industry supplier community. T4C\u2019s mission is to shine a spotlight on these charitable partnerships and acknowledge all the ways the trucking industry supports the communities in which we live and work.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023- 2024 Board of Directors:<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0 \u00a0<b>Scott Smith, President, J.D. Smith &amp; Sons, ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\"><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Seymor, Chief Executive Officer, Kriska Transportation Group, ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Scott Tilley, President of The Tandet Group, ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Ondejko, President, Onfreight Logistics, ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Brent Arnold, President, Arnold Bros. Transport, MB<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Natalie Meyers, Director and owner of Hartrans Cartage Services, ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Dave Martin, Vice President, Eastern Operations, Bison Transport, MB<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Alex MacKinnon, Left Lane Associates, ON<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Trevor Bent, Chief Executive Officer, Eassons Transport Group, NS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o\u00a0\u00a0 Trevor Sawkins, Chief Operating Officer, ColdStar Solutions, BC<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent Annual General Meeting in Toronto, the Trucks for Change Network announced the appointment of\u00a0Trevor Sawkins, Chief Operating Officer, ColdStar Solutions (BC)\u00a0and\u00a0Trevor Bent, CEO of Eassons Transport Limited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,45],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-industry-image-pr","tag-trucks-for-change"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}