Sapp Bros. president named NATSO’s incoming chairman

Feb 23, 2016

Don Quinn

Don Quinn, president of Sapp Bros., addressed attendees of the National Association of Truck Stop Operators’ NATSO Show convention in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., after his recent designation as 2016 NATSO chairman. According to this report, published at the website of the truck stop operators’ association, Quinn urged members to “exceed their expectations” in the drive to improve service to customers, America’s truckers.

In other news from the NATSO Show, Robert Lake, senior vice president of acquisitions and business development at Overdrive parent company Randall-Reilly, has once again been named to the NATSO board of directors. Read more via this story on the website of Overdrive sister publication CCJ.

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Continuing proliferation of self-serve mobile tech reducing in-person contact at truck stops

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Owner-operator Zach Beadle -- find more pictures from the photo shoot at the Thigpen Ranch from 2016 at this link.

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The trucker cap in teacher Amy Watson’s selfie from the day she was tested for COVID-19 later inspired her choice of “long-haulers” to describe COVID survivors with persistent symptoms. “My school’s mascot is a squirrel,” she said, which she finds appropriate, given that her pre-school students, with their short bursts of activity, are “very squirrel-like.”

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