Fleet Advantage announced Don Davis, Senior Vice President, National Accounts, has been named one of Food Logistics’ 2022 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain.
The award recognizes influential individuals in the cold food industry whose achievements, hard work and vision have shaped the global cold food supply chain.
Davis has over 30 years of industry experience working with North America's top private fleets in business development and management of national accounts. At Fleet Advantage, he is responsible for helping companies understand their Total Cost of Ownership and he provides solutions for life cycle asset management and financing of Class-8 heavy-duty tractors and trailers.
A veteran of the global cold food supply chain, Davis has also helped clients navigate through numerous supply chain issues facing cold chain and food distributors, such as managing through driver, employee, and technician shortages, and helping customers secure critical parts to increase uptime in overcoming the challenges of parts supply. He has also served as a strong resource for clients in helping them exchange critical units less than three years old based on downtime challenges and has helped clients reduce accident exposure by shortening their trucks’ life cycle and exchanging these older units with new units equipped with the latest advanced safety technology.
“Don is a true professional who is committed to helping the entire industry overcome a number of ongoing challenges,” said John Flynn, CEO. “We are thrilled to have him on our team and his vast industry knowledge and experience helps our entire team provide the absolute best service to each one of our clients in the cold supply chain.”
Davis has spent his career building relationships based on trust and matches Fleet Advantage's proprietary IT processes and advanced fleet analytics with the latest eco-efficient clean-diesel technology to ensure customers achieve the optimum vehicle life cycle, maximize fuel economy and productivity while achieving corporate sustainability goals. He manages and oversees Fleet Advantage’s National Accounts with the top private fleet and for-hire carrier clients throughout the U.S. He has specific expertise in structuring complex finance and service offerings in the transportation marketplace.
Read about Davis in the January/February 2022 issue of Food Logistics magazine.