Trucking news and briefs for Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026:
KAG expands operations with private fleet conversion
As part of the program, KAG takes on the fleet ownership, driver staffing, and day-to-day management of private fleets’ transportation networks to allow the companies to focus on their core business priorities.KAG
Kenan Advantage Group (CCJ Top 250, No. 17) has completed a private fleet conversion with an existing global energy services customer.
Through this conversion, KAG will expand its transportation operations across numerous U.S. locations, delivering gas and diesel through its KAG Energy division. This includes the addition of three new markets: Kansas City, Missouri, and Pueblo and Alamosa, Colorado.
Approximately 80 employees will join the KAG team.
“We’re thankful for the trust placed in us to manage our partner’s transportation needs and for the opportunity to combine our strengths, expand our capabilities, and create even greater value for the customers we serve,” said Jason Platt, executive vice president of KAG Energy.
KAG’s Private Fleet Conversion program allows companies to seamlessly transition out of owning and managing their own fleet while maintaining service continuity, improving operational costs and gaining resource capacity.
[Related: Kenan Advantage acquires Alabama dry bulk fleet]
WIT seeks fleet input on trucking demographics index
The Women in Trucking Association (WIT) is encouraging companies in the trucking industry to complete a survey that collects data on women’s involvement in the industry.
The data will be used to develop an updated version of the WIT Index, which is the industry’s barometer to regularly benchmark and measure the percentage of women who are in corporate management, functional roles, and professional truck drivers. The WIT Index is conducted every two years.
WIT is inviting for-hire trucking companies, private fleets, transportation intermediaries, railroads, ocean carriers, equipment manufacturers, and technology companies to report the percentage of women in various roles of their workforce. Data reported will be kept strictly confidential and will be reported only as aggregate totals of responses.
Individuals completing the survey must be an authorized respondent from the company. Interested participants can report their data via the live survey through April 17.
Participating companies in the survey will receive an executive summary of the 2026-27 WIT Index at no cost, which will enable them to benchmark their own business hiring and talent management practices involving women against other companies in trucking.
“Monitoring women’s involvement in a male-populated industry like transportation is critical so that statistically valid data can be used to evaluate progress made in this area,” said Jennifer Hedrick, CAE, president and CEO of WIT. “The association created the WIT Index in 2016 to monitor the industry’s progress in women’s involvement among key roles, including corporate leaders and supervisors, technicians, safety directors, human resources, dispatchers and professional truck drivers.”
The most recent 2024-25 WIT Index found a substantial number of women in influential leadership roles. Approximately 28% in C-Suite and executive positions were women, 34.5% in supervisory leadership roles were women, and 29.5% of those who serve on boards of directors were women.
For the first time, the 2024-25 WIT Index reported percentage of professional truck drivers with CDLs who are women based upon company workforce size. According to the data, small companies with less than 500 employees reported that 12.5% of their overall professional driver population who hold CDLs were women, large/medium enterprises with 500 to 4,999 employees reported approximately 10.5% of their overall driver workforce were women, and giant/major enterprises with more than 5,000 employees reported approximately 7% of their truck driver population were women.
St. Christopher receives record donation from TA
TravelCenters of America has raised more than $100,000 for the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund (SCF) through its most recent annual charity golf tournament, the charity announced Wednesday.
SCF said the donation marks the largest single-year contribution generated by the event since the partnership began in 2017.
The record-breaking total reflects TA’s long-standing commitment to supporting professional drivers and their families during times of illness or injury, SCF noted. Proceeds from the tournament directly benefit SCF’s mission to provide financial assistance to drivers facing hardship.
“TravelCenters of America has been an incredible partner to the St. Christopher Fund for nearly a decade,” said Courtney Niemann, Executive Director of SCF. “This milestone contribution demonstrates the power of sustained corporate support and the meaningful impact it can have on drivers and their families when they need it most.”
Since 2017, TA has contributed annually to SCF through its charity golf tournament, with contributions steadily increasing over time. The most recent tournament represents a significant milestone in the partnership and underscores growing momentum behind industry efforts to support the well-being of professional drivers.
“Professional drivers keep this country moving, and supporting their well-being is a responsibility we take seriously,” said Jason Nordin, CEO, TravelCenters of America. “Our annual golf tournament is one way we can rally our vendor partners, our team members, and our industry around the drivers who need us most. We’re proud to stand with the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund and to help strengthen the safety net for the men and women who spend their lives on the road.”
As SCF looks ahead to the year ahead, contributions like this one help ensure the organization can continue expanding its reach and assistance programs to meet ongoing needs across the trucking community. SCF as a nonprofit organization provides short-term relief to Class A OTR drivers suffering from an illness or injury that took them out of work within the last 365 days. The SCF also provides several free prevention health and wellness programs for OTR drivers to help keep them on the road, including nicotine cessation, diabetes prevention, chronic disease management, at-home cancer screenings, and vaccine vouchers.
