doing things for the right reasons.”
That “doing things for the right reasons”
mindset goes inother directions aswell.
A significant point of pride for Christie and
his CMAC colleagues is the company’s
status as a veteran-owned enterprise, which
does help it to access clients who mandate a
certain percentage of their business go to
veteran-run partners. However, he said, the
broader goal going forward is to make
CMAC a workplace destination for
servicemen and women coming back from
tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially
those with wartime Class A-type vehicle
operating experience.
“When they come back to theUnited States
and they come back home, there’s no avenue
for them to go and pick up a truck-driving
job,” Christie said. “We’re working with our
Congressmen, both locally and in some of
the adjoining districts, and what we’re
trying to figure out is how do we get those
veterans out of the military and be able to
“We want to be one of those best-in-class
type carriers that, when people talk about
the industry and where carriers have gone,
they point at us and say ‘Hey man,
they’re doing it the right way.
July-August 2014
| BusinessWorld | 69
