Logistics Leadership Conference 2025

Join us on Thu, May 15, 2025 at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center for a day filled with networking, learning, and inspiration. Connect with industry leaders, share insights, and gain valuable knowledge to enhance your leadership skills in the logistics field.

Building on the success of the 2024 event, we expect over 500 professionals from trucking and logistics companies across the Midwest, Northeast, South, and Greater Toronto area.

Why Attend the Logistics Leaders Conference?

• Connect with influential logistics leaders in the trucking and logistics industry.

• Uncover strategies to reduce operating costs while boosting revenue.

• Gain valuable insights into the challenges shaping the industry in 2025 and beyond.

Don’t miss your chance to connect, collaborate, and gain the strategies you need to lead in today’s fast-paced logistics world!

Info: Arrival, check-in and registration. Coffee and mimosas will be served.

Info: This session will cover the most critical issues shaping the trucking industry in 2025, including economic outlook, operating costs, political and regulatory changes, emerging technologies, litigation financing and driver shortages. Dan Murray, Senior Vice President of the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), will offer his assessments of those challenges and advice on how companies can move forward and find success.

Info: In this session, motor carriers will learn best practices and strategies to secure the most favorable terms on their insurance renewal. We will analyze key factors that impact truck underwriting such as safety scores, loss experience, fleet size and stability, driver pool and telematics. Trucking executives will gain practical knowledge to confidently navigate the renewal process and understand how insurance underwriters assess their companies.

Info: Buffet lunch & refreshments will be provided.

Info: In this panel, we will dive into the intricacies of truck claims. Our experts will go over a wide variety of real world claim examples such as cargo theft, fraud from double brokering and identity theft, predatory towing, nuclear verdicts and more. Motor carriers will learn documentation best practices and communication techniques to ensure claims are handled efficiently and fairly. Participants will gain practical knowledge to confidently navigate the complexities of motor carrier insurance claims.

Info: Is it time for a Reform in FMCSA Regulations?

In this session we will take a deeper dive into the lack of transparency in broker operations and the accountability of shippers and receivers in the supply chain. Are the current rules enough to ensure fairness and efficiency, or is it time to update them to better protect carriers and improve the industry as a whole? Our panelists will also address the issue of predatory towing and go over strategies for combating these unreasonable towing bills and unscrupulous towing firms.

Info: Closing and cocktail reception. Join us for live music, drinks and hors d'oeuvres

Host or Publisher Colonial Insurance Services