UPS Freight president steps down

ATLANTA — Leo Suggs, the president of UPS Freight, has announced he will retire at the end of this year and will devote the next five months to a broad service quality initiative at the national trucking concern.

The carrier has named Gordon Mackenzie, most recently the senior vice president and chief operating officer of UPS Freight, to take his place. Mackenzie had held the position of chief operating officer since he joined Overnite Transportation in 1996. UPS acquired Overnite in August of 2005 and subsequently rebranded the unit as UPS Freight, making the parent company one of the largest LTL carriers in the world.

Suggs, who has devoted almost 50 years of his life to the trucking industry, was named the chief executive officer of Overnite Transportation in 1996 and has been instrumental in Overnite’s transition to UPS Freight.

Jack Holmes, a senior UPS manager who headed the UPS Freight transition team, will replace Mackenzie as senior vice president of operations at UPS Freight. Holmes has 27 years of experience at UPS.

— via Truckinginfo.com