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News Trucker Buddy International Hires New Executive Director Randy Schwartzenburg, formerly the Director of National Sales for the Digital Magazine Technol-ogy Division of Randall Reilly Media, has accepted an o er as the Executive Director of Trucker Buddy International ending his 15 year tenure at Randall Reilly Media. His accomplishments include starting and producing The Great American Trucking Show, eTrucker.com, America's Traveling Truck Show and working as the Associate Publisher of Truckers News Magazine. Schwartzenburg joined Randall Reilly Media in 1994 as the Controller of the company and quickly moved in the area of managing business units. For the last 6 years he has served on the board of Trucker Buddy International as its Treasurer. I'm excited to become the Executive Director of Trucker Buddy. While serving on the board of directors, I've witnessed the passion for the program of our Trucker Buddies and educators and under-stand the importance that Trucker Buddy Interna-tional has within the trucking community. As with most worthwhile goals, it takes everyone working together for Trucker Buddy International to be the success it deserves. says Randy Schwartzenburg. With Randy's history and working knowl-edge of the industry I'm con dent we have the right person leading Trucker Buddy. Randy's time serving TBI as an o cer shows he has an understanding of the importance of the program, a great enthusiasm, and will work with all the volunteers and educators to continue TBI's mission of educating schoolchil-dren. says Mark Taylor President of Trucker Buddy and a professional driver for Walmart. Trucker Buddy International Receives Large Donation from Randall Reilly Publishing Trucker Buddy International announces that it has received a large donation from Randall Reilly Publishing in the form of o ce and operational sup-port. This is in addition to the support of compli-mentary ad space, award products and nancial donations it's been donating throughout the years. Randall Reilly will be providing support for tele-phone systems, computers and computer services, o ce administration as well as many of the day to day expenses that Trucker Buddy would otherwise have to incur. Randall Reilly has graciously o ered to allow us to operate our program from their o ces in Tuscaloosa thus reducing our operational expenses and allowing more value to be reinvested into the program. This is a wonderful gesture and will help insure Trucker Buddy's success far into the future. We will continue to operate Trucker Buddy as an independent entity being directed by our govern-ing board. says Randy Schwartzenburg, Executive Director. Supporting Trucker Buddy just makes sense to us at Randall Reilly Media. We have been working with Trucker Buddy since Gary King came to our o ces in 1992 and asked for our help. We are excited to increase our level of support for Trucker Buddy. Having a strong image program aimed at our children sews the right seeds that will bene t our industry for years to come. says Mike Reilly, Chairman/CEO, Randall Reilly. 6 Fall 2009