The Truckload Carriers Association’s 2019-20 chairman will be Josh Kaburick, Earl L. Henderson Trucking Company’s Chief Executive Officer. He gave his acceptance speech during the March 12 morning general session of TCA’s 81st Annual Convention in Las Vegas.

Kaburick, a native of the St. Louis, Missouri area, attended Western Illinois University on a football scholarship, graduating with a bachelor degree in business administration and a minor in marketing before returning home to join the family business where he applied the same aggressiveness and competitive drive that earned him four letters as a middle linebacker on the football field to his operational roles at Earl L. Henderson Trucking Company.

As a teenager, Kaburick worked in the shop, cleaned trucks, washed trailers, and emptied waste baskets among other duties assigned to him by his father to instill a work ethic. Upon his return from college, he applied that work ethic to his early roles in truckload operations and freight brokerage.

In 2004, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer and by 2011 he successfully advocated to relocate the business from Salem, Illinois to Caseyville, Illinois to be closer the St. Louis transportation hub and to access its talent pool that Josh knew would be critical to the company’s long-term growth.

Today, Kaburick serves as Earl L. Henderson Trucking Company’s chairman, CEO, and majority owner. The company is a full truckload dry van and refrigerated carrier serving a diverse customer base throughout the 48 contiguous states with its 350 tractors and 700 trailers from its headquarters in Caseyville, Illinois (just eight miles east of downtown St. Louis). The company’s fast-growing affiliate, Trekker Logistics, provides additional flexible capacity solutions to supplement the asset operations.