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For
Immediate Release Contact:
Brynn Everett, Women In Trucking Association Women In Trucking Announces its
September 2020 Member of the Month Plover,
WI – Sept. 1, 2020 – The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) has announced
Leigh Foxall as its September Member of the Month. Foxall is the founder and
CEO of Truck Parking Reservations and a 30-year veteran of the trucking
industry. She has experience leading large and small businesses into and
through tremendous growth phases. It is said she has diesel in her blood. After moving
to Portland, Oregon in 1986, Foxall began working for the Jubitz family at
Dial-A-Truck/DAT Solutions. The Dial-A-Truck offices were housed in “the
brown broker building” at the far corner of the Jubitz Truck Stop parking
lot. Trucks parked within inches of the building and the only way to get to
the Ponderosa for lunch was to walk through the fuel island. There and then is
where the diesel got into her blood. Foxall has
worked side-by-side with several successful technology pioneers in the
transportation industry. Al Jubitz, who recognized a pain point for shippers
and brokers looking for truck drivers to move their loads, and Scott Moscrip,
who starting his company by employing his family and their friends to build
what is now Truckstop.com, are a few of them. After
spending over 20 years with these colleagues, it is no surprise that Foxall
started building Truck Parking Reservations. The solution allows a driver the
ability to search for safe and secure reserved truck parking. Just ask an
over-the-road truck driver how long it takes to find truck parking in or
around a major city, or if they can find a spot after 6pm, and you’ll see
there is a truck parking crisis. In fact, over the past few years, American
Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) studies have shown truck parking as
a top critical issue for truck drivers. “The
pandemic has caused an even greater truck parking crisis for the trucking
industry. Due to the lockdown, property owners in major cities with safe and
secure overnight parking are no longer able to serve the trucking industry
with much needed available, reserved truck parking spaces,” said Foxall. Working for
technology companies has been Foxall’s full-time career path, but her passion
for WIT runs deep. For six years, she served as chairwoman on the board of
directors. She also helped staff the WIT trade show booths, attended
conferences, and was always there to support and encourage Ellen Voie, WIT
president and CEO, while she was building the association. “I will
never forget the first ‘Salute to Women Behind the Wheel’ event with WIT.
When the doors opened, we had no idea what to expect. Female drivers, their
families, and supporters streamed in through the doors for what seemed like
30 minutes,” said Foxall. “Some women had tears running down their face as
they thanked us for honoring them. It was an amazing day and I am fortunate
to have built relationships with women who too have diesel in their blood.” To find out
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