Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 20, 2000

Will Garrison – American Freightways Corporation (afwy)

WILL GARRISON has been with American Freightways since 1986 and serves as Chief Operating Officer. He has 12 years of motor carrier management experience. His initial duties with the company included writing PC- based rating programs for customers and leading the areas of customer accounts and human resources. Mr. Garrison has been directly responsible for the operations functions since August 1996 and continues to be responsible for them as well as the human resources function (which includes human resources, people development, communications and quality), the physical assets function of the company (which includes equipment maintenance, properties and corporate travel functions) and the marketing function (which includes marketing, sales pricing, business development and graphics). Profile
TWST: Give us an overview of American Freightways Corporation.

Mr. Garrison: We're a motor carrier and we were founded October 25, of

1982. We served all points in the state of Arkansas at