CEO of FreightWaves looks to become Secretary for the Department of Transportation

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – With President-Elect Donald Trump moving forward with choosing his cabinet and 18 positions still to be filled, the race for Secretary for the Department of Transportation is in full swing.

The CEO of a Chattanooga freight analytics company wants to become President-elect Donald Trump’s next secretary of transportation. As the purpose of the Secretary for the Department of Transportation being to deliver the world’s leading transportation system. 

Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves, has made a series of posts outlining proposed policies, which would include making truck parking more available, implementing voluntary bio tracking programs to determine fatigue in pilots and drivers and accelerating technologies that automate air traffic control.

FreightWaves is a price reporting agency (PRA) focused on the global freight market and the leading provider of high-frequency data for the global supply chain. FreightWaves price, demand, and capacity data allow customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor, and forecast the global physical economy.

Fuller is looking to see more investment in faster highway systems, greater adoption of technology that manages flow of goods, and elimination of regulations that impede the construction of highways and airports.

Locally, Fuller has discussed the congestion of Interstate 24 in Chattanooga and how there is not another way to travel across town when it does get backed up.

Fuller stated recently that “It makes sense to me to build a bridge from Browns Ferry to Moccasin Bend to ease off the traffic for local folks. We need a bypass across Chattanooga. A lot of the traffic that comes through our community happens to get stuck in congestion because of the bottlenecks that exist.”

Fuller has stated that he has communicated with people in the president-elect’s sphere, but not with Trump himself.