About NPTC – National Private Truck Council

Welcome Message from the President and CEO

On behalf of the National Private Truck Council, I would like to personally invite you to our private fleet community. Founded in 1939, the Council is the national trade association devoted exclusively to the interests of private fleet practitioners and supplier/vendor partners. NPTC represents a broad cross-section of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and other companies which operate their own private truck fleets, and a wide range of Allied/Suppliers which provide products and services in support of private fleet operations.

NPTC is a school of private fleets. We focus on education, certification, benchmarking, and business networking, in addition to regulatory and legislative advocacy. If you are a private fleet manager or representative of a supplier/vendor provider to private fleets, we encourage you to join and become active. For a quick glance of NPTC member benefits and services, click here.

Our various programs and services help thousands every year advance their professional skills and allow company fleets to continuously improve at world class standards. Our annual calendar of events starts with the Private Fleet Management Institute in January; the Certified Transportation Professional CTP® exam in February; the Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition in April/May; the Benchmarking Survey Report in August; and the National Safety Conference in September.

Read testimonies from active members who have attended the Private Fleet Management Institute and joined a network of CTPs after passing the CTP exam. Learn how the Annual Conference has an exceptionally high degree of ROI for attendees. Understand how benchmarking transforms private fleets justification and allows fleets to compare their operations to general trends in the industry. And finally, read how attending the National Safety Conference helps keep private fleets the safest trucking operations in the industry year after year.

Thank you for your interest. We look forward to welcoming you as a new member at the next NPTC event!

Best Regards

Gary Petty

Dear Private Truck Professional:

Welcome to the National Private Truck Council, the only trade association in the United States devoted exclusively to the interests of the private corporate trucking fleet industry and its professional practitioners. NPTC represents a cross-section of American manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and public service organizations ranging in size from family-owned small businesses and town utility fleets to Fortune 500 global conglomerates.

NPTC’s Board of Directors is represented by a broad spectrum of American businesses including Brakebush, Centerline Drivers, CF Logistics, Clean Harbors, CRH America Products, Deseret Transportation, HC Transport, Frito-Lay, IMMI, International Truck, Marzetti Company, McLane Company, PacLease, Pioneer Landscape Centers, Ross Transportation, The QUIKRETE Companies, The Schwan Food Company, Standard Logistics Transportation and Wegmans Food Markets.

Many of the nation’s top companies like Linde, Marathon Petroleum, CVS Health, Walmart, Volvo/Mack, Solera, Messer, Univar, McKee Foods, Weyerhaeuser, McLane Company, Wilbur-Ellis, Perdue Farms, United Rentals, Walgreens, Meijer, Air Products, Cemex, and hundreds of others are active in NPTC and represented on the association’s important policy forums such as the Legislative & Regulatory Advisory Committee, Safety Committee, Conference Planning Committee, PR/Marketing Committee, Membership Committee, and the NPTC Institute’s Board of Governors.

Membership from these and hundreds of other companies is made up of leading middle and upper-middle management professionals. They are results-oriented men and women holding demanding positions in the corporate distribution field. They look to NPTC as a primary source for new, more efficient ways of adding value and reducing costs, improving service, implementing best practices, and producing better results for their companies.

Active members also find in NPTC an ideal environment for business networking. We strive to be a cordial and friendly organization which attracts practical, down-to-earth people willing to help fellow members. NPTC prides itself in being a “we” organization. We look for ways of building consensus on policy issues affecting both the association and its member companies.

The National Private Truck Council’s history reaches back to 1939. Founded as the National Council of Private Motor Truck Owners, the group strictly focused on in-house private truck fleets separate and apart from for-hire trucking firms. Over the years, NPTC adapted to changing market conditions.

With the trends of consolidation, merger and outsourcing over the past decade, NPTC has become a more blended association. Membership is open to all interest parties in the business including private truck fleet companies or divisions, dedicated fleet service providers, for-hire trucking companies, third-party logistics companies, truck and maintenance leasing companies, and allied/vendor suppliers of all sizes.

The primary reasons for joining NPTC are advocacy, education, and professional advancement and recognition. NPTC is the only voice in the Nation’s Capital speaking exclusively on behalf of private trucking fleets and their affiliated service providers. Our Safety Committee is one of the most active and valuable sources of information in the truck transportation field.

NPTC’s Institute provides the only source of comprehensive private fleet training courses leading up to the Certified Transportation Professional^® (CTP) designation, the officially recognized certification program in the private truck fleet industry with over 750 active individual participants. NPTC’s annual recognition and awards program identifies and honors each year more than 75 top professionals and companies.

This is a challenging and exciting time to be a part of NPTC. Our nation and its leaders seek to build a stronger, safer and more security-driven transportation system. Trucking will be a major focus of public and media attention. NPTC and the private trucking community will play a key role in shaping the public debate and the new government regulations which will inevitably unfold.

Getting involved and staying active in NPTC is best way to help ensure that you have a part in building a better company, a better industry and an even greater United States of America.

Sincerely,

Gary Petty
NPTC President & CEO

Gary Petty
President & CEO
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