thoughtleaders
BY MITCH MAC DONALD, GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
THE DC VELOCITY Q&A
switching gears
interview with Chuck Clowdis
If analyst Chuck Clowdis seems
CHARLES “CHUCK” CLOWDIS KNOWS WHEREOF HE SPEAKS. UNLIKE
many of the analysts who follow the freight transportation market, he has actually worked in the business. Before switching gears two decades ago, he was a
trucking professional himself, working at various times as a dock foreman, terminal manager, sales rep, and vice president of sales and marketing.
Last June, Clowdis joined the renowned economic forecasting and analysis
firm IHS Global Insight as managing director – North America in the Global
Trade and Transportation Advisory Services practice. In that role, he is responsible for all trade and transportation products and clients in the United States,
Canada, and Mexico. Clowdis brought to his current position 30-plus years of
experience in transportation, logistics, and supply chain design and management. Earlier in his career, he served as vice president of marketing at Transcon Lines, as vice president at TNT North America, and as an executive at Sun (Oil) Carriers Inc. and Mason & Dixon Lines
Inc. He established an independent consulting practice in 1988, and has been an executive consultant
since 1992 to Ernst & Young LLP, and since 2001, to KPMG.
His industry involvement includes stints as chairman and past president of the Sales & Marketing
Council of the American Trucking Associations and membership in the National Defense
Transportation Association.
unusually familiar with the ins
and outs of the trucking busi-
ness, there’s a reason for that.
He spent the first 16 years of
his career on the inside.
