Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. (EXPD) Discusses Changes and Key Trends in the U.S. and North American Trucking Market Prepared Remarks Transcript

Samantha Hurst
Regional Sales & Marketing Manager for Mid-Atlantic

Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. We are just hitting the top of the hour. So we are going to get started because if you’ve ever joined one of these Expeditors events before, you know we typically have quite a bit of content to cover, and today is no exception. So you are joining us for our trucking and transition webinar. We’re going to focus today on what’s changing in the U.S. trucking and honestly, North America market and why that matters to you and your business. So we’re going to go into a little bit of housekeeping today.

My name, by the way, is Samantha Hurst. I’m the one you get the e-mails reminding you that you have signed up for this event. And if you have any questions in the background or technical difficulties, we’re going to drop a few hints here in the chat in just a moment on some things we know people commonly have issues with like echoes of my voice, if you’re hearing that, I’m very sorry. But we’ll give you some hint on how to fix that. And then we will go into introductions of our speakers.

So Angi, you were right to go to that disclaimer. That’s the first thing I want to talk about for everyone. Understand we are not legal experts. We cannot give you advice that should be relied upon from a legal business or financial decisions. We are here