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FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 15 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EXHIBIT HALL & REGISTRATION DESK/SETUP Convention Center Exhibit Hall DE

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 16 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION/SETUP Convention Center Level 2 - Regis. D 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. TIA Board of Directors Meeting Convention Center

11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. NITL Golf Classic Tour 18 Golf Club 12:30 pm Shotgun Start

SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 17 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EXHIBITOR SET-UP Convention Center Exhibit Hall DE

8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. IANA/NITL/TIA JOINT REGISTRATION Convention Center Level 2 - Regis. D 8:30 a.m – 10:00 a.m. TIA Committee Meeting Convention Center

What are the legal trends affecting the transportation industry? TIA’s Legal Committee has the information you need. Join us Sunday morning for the latest cases you need to be aware of, and how they affect your business.

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. IANA Board of Directors Meeting (Inc. Breakfast) Convention Center

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. NITL Ocean Transportation Committee Meeting

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m NITL Railroad Transportation Committee Meeting

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. TIA Roundtable: The Match Convention Center

How do you find the best match for your transportation services? Join in a discussion with an expert panel of brokers and motor carriers discuss how they select each other. Learn what leads them to use one over another.

10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. NITL Highway Committee Meeting Convention Center

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Roundtable: “Houston, We Have a Solution” Convention Center

“Bad weather is forcing me to re-route deliveries…is there a good tool for that?” “Anyone here know how the insurance market is trending?” “I need some market intelligence fast!” “What’s the best easy-to-understand fuel cost index?” “My RFP’s are not getting the results I want.” “What’s better for us, direct contracting or a broker?” Do these and similar questions sound like familiar issues crossing your desk? Share your questions, experience and advice with colleagues and our experts in a freewheeling roundtable discussion of how to harness the information you need to succeed.

Preliminary Program ScheduleTIA Fall Meeting 2013 • November 16-19 • Houston, TX

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SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 1711:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. TIA Roundtable: Hiring the Best and Eliminating the Rest! Convention Center

Every firm has done it – hired a bad sales rep! This seminar introduces a checklist that helps keep you focused on the tasks that need to be completed to hire a salesperson. Besides the checklist, special attention is paid to the pros and cons of testing and interviewing.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. TIA Roundtable Intermodal: The Real Story Convention Center

Rail offers another option, some say “the Green Option”, for your customers. Experts from rail and freight brokerages will share how they not only work together but succeed. Learn from their experience, and make the move to rail.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Roundtable: 2013 Urban Mobility Report and 2013 ASCE Convention Center

Infrastructure Report Card – Implications for Freight Transportation Recent rankings of the nation’s most congested cities include multiple freight/intermodal hubs including

Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland, New York-Newark, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Seattle. At the same time, America’s infrastructure is receiving failing grades. Representatives from the Texas A & M Transportation Institute (TTI) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will provide overviews of the results of their annual studies and discuss the related “spill over” into freight transportation operations.

1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. NITL Annual Membership Meeting Luncheon Hilton Americas

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. TIA Operations Committee Meeting Convention Center

Employee misclassification issues, which include employee vs. independent contractor and exempt vs. non-exempt employee classification, have become a major operation issue. You are welcome to attend this meeting and take home a copy of TIA’s FLSA Framework. Other topics the committee will discuss are: state indemnification issues, state tax issues, and TIA’s veterans initiative.

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. IANA Joint Operations and M & R Committee Meeting Convention Center

2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. NITL Members Special Event (NITL Members only) Hilton Americas

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. TIA Highway Committee Meeting Convention Center

Many of MAP-21’s initiatives will be implemented. Our team will provide updates and the impact to the industry on major provisions of the legislation to include the broker bond implementation and interlining.

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. IANA Motor Carrier Division Meeting Convention Center (tentative)

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. INTERMODAL EXPO WELCOME RECEPTION Hilton Americas



OpeningGeneral Session

Monday, November 18

7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. NITL/IANA JOINT REGISTRATION Convention Center Level 2 - Regis. D

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. OPENING GENERAL SESSION (inc. Industry Awards) Convention Center

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. SPOUSE HOSPITALITY LOUNGE Convention Center 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. SPOUSE TOUR

10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. CONCURRENT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • TIA Contingent and Vicarious Liability

• More Than Just Containers: Break-bulk and Project Cargoes - Trends and Market Outlook • How Transportation Regulations are Influencing Shipper Choices

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EXHIBITOR SERVICE MEETING Convention Center Exhibit Hall

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. IANA Press Conference Convention Center

11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. INTERMODAL EXPO/ TRANSCOMP EXHIBITION (Grand Opening/Lunch and Concurrent Educational Sessions on tradeshow floor) Convention Center - Exhibit Halls DE 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. CONCURRENT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • Saving Energy and the Environment • Supply Chain Control Towers—Beyond 4 PL’s

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. NITL Press Conference Convention Center

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CONCURRENT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • The SmartWay Transport Partnership - Enhancing Supply Chains by Managing Carbon Emissions • Tracking on the Road – The Final Frontier

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CONCURRENT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • What Does the Market Have to Say about Intermodal Performance and Potential? • The Short Lines: Right Stuff For Rail Shippers 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. HAPPY HOUR (on tradeshow floor) Convention Center

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. NITL Press Reception Hilton Americas

William J. Logue is President& CEO of FedEx Freight Corporation. He provides strategic direction for the Corporation’s less-than-truckload (LTL) companies throughout North America and for FedEx Custom Critical, a leading carrier of time-sensitive, critical shipments. Bill reports directly to Frederick W. Smith, Chairman & CEO of FedEx Corporation and is a member of the Corporation’s Strategic Management Committee (SMC).

Before joining FedEx Freight in December 2009, Bill served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for FedEx Express – United States. Prior to that, Bill held various senior management positions within the FedEx Express organization, including Senior Vice President of Domestic Ground Operations (DGO) and Senior Vice President of Air Ground Freight Service (AGFS). Bill joined FedEx in 1989.

Bill is the past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Way of the Mid-South. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).

Bill Logue, President and CEO FedEx Freight



Bill Herz

Closing Luncheon Speaker

Come join us for the closing luncheon and enjoy Bill Herz’s fast-paced, interactive comedy, magic and mind-reading show - an energetic display of visual dexterity, wit and psychological mysteries designed for thinking audiences. Borrowed objects vanish and reappear, spectators’ thoughts are stolen and eye-popping impossibilities make even the most sophisticated audiences wonder if what they saw is really possible. Bill Herz has spent the past twenty-five years performing at corporate events. He currently performs at over 200 corporate events each year and teaches executives their own meeting magic. Herz's unique mix of comedy and magic has been applauded at corporate functions throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, China, India, and Thailand.

TUESDAY – NOVEMBER 198:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. NITL/IANA JOINT REGISTRATION Convention Center Level 2 - Regis. D

8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Special Plenary Session Risky Business: Protecting Against Fraud Convention Center

Whether it’s identity theft, cargo theft, or illegal double brokering, the trend is increasing and requires an industry-wide approach. This special plenary session will feature recommendations of the TIA Fraud Task Force along with other industry experts will discuss how shippers, 3PLs, and carriers can protect themselves.

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. INTERMODAL EXPO/TRANSCOMP EXHIBITION (Concurrent Educational Sessions/ Networking Breakfast) Convention Center - Exhibit Halls DE

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. CONCURRENT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • Clear Communications Equals Successful Supply Chains • 3rd Annual Intermodal Industry Challenge – An Academic Competition

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CONCURRENT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • Innovations in a Changing Chassis Market • Evidencing Security Compliance in Today’s Supply Chain

12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p. m. CLOSING LUNCHEON Speaker: Bill Herz Hilton Americas - Houston

2:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. OPTIONAL TOURS • Port of Houston Authority’s Bayport Container Terminal • Space Center Houston – NASA Tour • Home Depot Baytown Stocking/Distribution Center

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