Southeastern Freight Lines Promotes Richard Slater to Regional Human Resource Manager

Southeastern Freight Lines Promotes Richard Slater to Regional Human Resource Manager

LEXINGTON, S.C. (May 5, 2016) - Southeastern Freight Lines, the leading provider of regional less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services, today announced that Richard Slater has been promoted to regional human resource manager, serving the company's Support Center, Western Billing and Columbia, South Carolina, Fleet Services facilities.

Slater has four and a half years of experience at Southeastern, where he has served in a variety of roles, including account manager, outbound operations manager and assistant service center manager. Most recently, Slater served as the service center manager in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"Richard has consistently proven his commitment to providing quality service at Southeastern, demonstrating an unwavering dedication and appreciation for each role he's held in the company," said John Pryor, vice president of human resources and safety for Southeastern. "We are excited for Richard to continue his success as regional human resource manager for Southeastern and have no doubts that he will accomplish great things in his new role."

Richard graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a minor in history. He is known as a man of service, volunteering in the community with his wife, Molly, and mentoring at-risk middle school students.

About Southeastern Freight Lines
Southeastern Freight Lines, a privately-owned regional less-than-truckload transportation services provider founded in 1950, specializes in next-day service in the Southeast and Southwest and operates 88 service centers in 14 states, Canada and Puerto Rico. Southeastern has a network of service partners to ensure transportation services in the remaining 36 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Mexico. Southeastern Freight Lines provides more than 99.35% on-time service in next day lanes. A dedication to service quality and a continuous quality improvement process that began in 1985 has been recognized by more than 400 quality awards received from customers and associations. Southeastern Freight Lines subsidiary, Southeastern Logistics Solutions, provides expedited service and multi-modal transportation services across the nation through strategic capacity partnerships. For more information, please visit www.sefl.com and www.facebook.com/SoutheasternFreight.

Media Contact:
Ginny Talley
Largemouth Communications (on behalf of Southeastern Freight Lines)
ginny@largemouthpr.com
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