Kevin Otzenberger | Daimler Truck North America

Kevin Otzenberger is the eMobility Product Marketing Senior Analyst for Daimler Truck North America. He manages technical marketing communications for Freightliner’s medium-duty and heavy-duty battery electric truck portfolio. Previously, Kevin worked as an engineering project manager for the first series-production eCascadia and eM2 vehicles, and has been supporting projects at Daimler Truck since 2017.

A long-time resident of the Pacific Northwest, Kevin earned his Master of International Management degree from Portland State University and his Bachelor’s in Journalism and Mass Media from the University of Idaho. He spends his free time playing music with friends and kayaking with his wife, Jane.        

Registration & Event Information:

The TCT meets September through June on the second Monday of every month for networking, lunch and dynamic speakers on important issues to the transportation industry. Members, their guests and others are invited.

Thank you to all who contributed door prizes at our last meeting! All proceeds go toward TCT’s Scholarship Program.

Sheri Call | Washington Trucking Associations

Sheri Call, employed by the Washington Trucking Associations since 2001, currently serves as the organizations President & CEO; a position she has held since 2016. She has a dual role; both managing the Association and performing its lobby functions. Sheri is also a current Board Member of the Washington Highway Users Federation, NORPASS, Workers’ Compensation Advisory Committee, and the Interstate Bridge Community Advisory Committee.

Since moving to Washington State in 1994, Sheri has spent her career in freight related businesses from heavy duty truck part manufacturers to distributorships. Sheri previously served as a representative of the trucking industry on the Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board (FMSIB) and Washington’s Freight Advisory Committee. Sheri graduated from the University of Utah and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.

Registration & Event Information:

The TCT meets September through June on the second Monday of every month for networking, lunch and dynamic speakers on important issues to the transportation industry. Members, their guests and others are invited.

Thank you to all who contributed door prizes at our last meeting! All proceeds go toward TCT’s Scholarship Program.

Peter Friedmann | Agriculture Transportation Coalition

My predecessors on the Senate Merchant Marine Subcommittee went for the obvious – to careers in law firms representing mostly foreign ocean carriers; I had those offers too, but went the opposite direction, which no one had done previously, but where my heart was, and still is today — to represent those that supply the cargo, the farmers, ag processors, forest products.

Going the opposite way, to advocate for those that had no advocates when it came to international transportation, export supply chain, has proven so rewarding, and together with those agriculture exporters we have built something powerful and lasting in the AgTC. This work has earned the respect of carriers and ports for exporters, and awareness even in quarters not given to concerning itself with the agriculture in “the hinterland”. For example, after a century of existence, the New York Maritime Society’s Hall of Fame, for the first time ever, apparently recognized that there is indeed a country to the east of the Hudson River. While I was honored to be inducted, in my mind this was recognition of the importance of those who grow, harvest, process, handle, transport food and fiber for the world, those whom the Agriculture Transportation Coalition serves. It happened because of our AgTC members who live and work in places that the maritime crowd in New York City and New Jersey never heard of, but which form the core of the AgTC: Euphrata, Hermiston, Tangent, Vidalia, Shawnee Mission, Minot, Idaho Falls, Dakota Dunes, Olive Branch, Moses Lake, Greeley, Greenwood, Lubbock, Wenatchee, Cordova, — the list of the “hometowns” of agriculture exporters goes on.

What a privilege it is that the JOC has called the AgTC “the principle voice of agriculture exporters in US transportation policy”. Because I did not follow that well-worn path from the Senate Commerce Committee to a maritime law firm representing ocean carriers.

Registration & Event Information:

The TCT meets September through June on the second Monday of every month for networking, lunch and dynamic speakers on important issues to the transportation industry. Members, their guests and others are invited.

Thank you to all who contributed door prizes at our last meeting! All proceeds go toward TCT’s Scholarship Program.