Regional Meetings and State Convention
Over the years, the Suppliers to VMWA's Membership have been very generous by helping to defray some of the costs of the State Conventions, Regional Meetings, Workshops, and from time-to-time other important meetings.
The entire Membership of VMWA is grateful for their support!
Winter 2012
The 2012 VMWA Regional Meetings was well attended and very successful especially with the Sponsorship of Victory Packaging and Towne Insurance. The dates of the meetings were as follows:
February 23-Roanoke at the Holiday Inn 4468 Starkey Road
March 6-Chesapeake at the Hyatt Place 709 Eden Way North
March 8-Richmond at the Holiday Inn I64 2000 Staples Mill Road
March 13-Springfield at the Springfield Golf and Country Club 8301 Old Keene Rd
Every meeting started at 9AM, lunch was served, and concluded by 3PM.
The morning session was geared to Tariff application especially using the new 2012 VMWA Estimate and Bill of Lading/Freight Bill template.
The afternoon session focused on Mover protection methods.
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Fall 2011
On November 15th, we had a DOT Workshop for our Members in Richmond. The Workshop was very successful. and well attended. We had three (3) Sponsors that really helped reduce the expenses. The Suppliers were: The Selzer Company, Victory Packaging, and nTouchTel. VMWA is very grateful for their sponsorship. A Thank You was sent out to the Attendees for their hard work.Winter 2011
The locations of the Regional Meetings for 2011 were Roanoke, Chesapeake, Springfield and Mechancisville. The format at all of the meetings except the Mechanicsville meeting was a roundtable discussions on various issues with a Guest Speaker for the lunchtime period. Everyone who attended had a chance to listen and share. The Attendess were very pleased with the exchange of ideas and information.
Our first meeting was in Roanoke, the second meeting was held in Chesapeake, the third meeting was in Mechancisville which was the DOT Audit Ready theme, and the last meeting was held in Springfield.
The issues we discussed were; Public Image, Moving Services, and Equipment.
The Guest Speakers for the various meetings are listed below:
Roanoke-Joe Sutliff President of the Roanoke Valley Realtors Association.
Chesapeake-Dan Wolfert Program Manager for the Navy's Personal Property Transportaion Audit System and lead analyst for Joint Regionalization of Household Goods Operation.
Richmond-William Anderson Safety Inspector with FMCSA since 2009 with his main responsiblity being compliance reviews, focused reviews, roadside inspections and assisting carriers in compliance achievement.
Springfield-Joe Corcoran Executive Director fo Farifax County Chamber of Commerce