2026 TAEC Annual Meeting
Steamboat Springs, CO
Schedule
Sunday, July 19, 2026
- 2:00pm – 5:00pm – Registration Desk Open
- 4:00pm – 5:00pm – Region Meetings
- 6:00pm – 10:00pm – Opening Reception & Dinner
Monday, July 20, 2026
- 6:30am – Morning Yoga
- 7:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:15am – Opening Remarks
- 8:30am – Fraud In Trucking with Danielle Chaffin, Highway Veritas
- 9:30am – Break
- 9:45am – Culture Index – Justin Anderson, Terra Contracting
- 11:00am – Autonomous Vehicle Panel
– Kodiak AI, Aurora, Waabi Logistics, Stack AV - 12:00pm – Wrap up comments
Free afternoon & evening - 9:00pm – 11:00pm – Hospitality Social with Trivia Night
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- 6:30am – Morning Yoga
- 7:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:15am – Opening Remarks
- 8:30am – Greg Woolridge: Leader of the Blues
- 9:30am – Break
- 9:45am – SCOTUS Ruling: Shipper / Broker Liability – Doug Marcello, Saxton & Stump
- 10:20am – Supply Chain / Freight Plans – Cathy Gautreaux, USDOT
- 10:55am – Crisis Communication – Kent Grisham, NE Trucking Assn.
- 11:30am – 30 Ideas in 29 Minutes – Non-Dues Revenue Edition
- 12:00pm – Wrap-up Comments
Free Afternoon - 6:00pm – 10:00pm – Dinner on the Mountain
Halladay Award Presentation
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- 6:30am – Morning Yoga
- 7:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast Buffet
- 8:15am – Opening Remarks
- 8:30am – FMCSA Session with Administrator Derek Barrs
- 9:30am – ATA Session with Chris Spear & Derek Leathers
- 10:15am – TCA Update with Jim Mullen
- 10:30am – Break
- 10:45am – ATRI Benchmarking – Rebecca Brewster
- 11:15am – TAEC Business Session
Closing Comments
Free Afternoon - 6:00pm – 10:00pm – Closing Dinner
Hotel & Travel
Accomodations:
The Steamboat Grand
2300 Mt Werner Cir
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
A link to reserve your hotel room will be sent once your registration is confirmed.
Transportation:
Denver International Airport (DEN)
3.5 – 4 hours
Yampa Valley Regional / Hayden Airport (HDN)
30 minutes
Eagle/Vail Airport (EGE)
1.75 – 2 hours
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Copart
Daimler Truck North America
Ryder System
Bronze Sponsors
Aurora
Drivers Legal Plan
Fleetworthy
Ironwood Business Consulting
Kodiak AI
Matthews Publishing
National Tank Truck Carriers
Specialized Carriers & Rigging Assoc.
Stack AV
Strategic Value Media
Tenstreet
Truckload Carriers Association
Volvo Group North America
Supporting Sponsors
Alliance Interstate Risk
ATRI
Euclid
Forvis Mazars
JJ Keller & Associates
Project 61
Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary
Waabi Logistics