Howard Woodie McDuffie
Vice President of KAG Logistics
North Canton United States (Ohio)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
A logistics professional with more than 35 years of experience, Howard Woodie McDuffie contributes his expertise to Kenan Advantage Group, Inc., as vice president. With the Ohio agency's KAG Logistics division since 2006, he creates and implements ethanol logistics strategies. His ideas have improved ethanol transloading at several locations and enhanced rail-to-truck transloading procedures. Moreover, Howard Woodie McDuffie assists with sales and in marketing the firm's order management, transportation management, and business intelligence services.
Prior to joining Kenan Advantage Group, he dedicated 29 years to Miller Transporters, Inc. Joining the firm as a student at Mississippi College, he worked his way through school while earning a bachelor's degree in business. During his first three years at the company, Howard Woodie McDuffie served as a cement, anhydrous ammonia, and jet fuel dispatcher at branches in Mississippi and Alabama. Following the deregulation of the trucking industry, he established its central dispatch system and coordinated chemical units from 20 different locations as well as those of light oil, asphalt, and cement units from numerous locations. The firm eventually selected him for top executive roles within its Miller Intermodal Logistics Services, Inc., and Miller Leasing, LLC, subsidiaries.
Prior to joining Kenan Advantage Group, he dedicated 29 years to Miller Transporters, Inc. Joining the firm as a student at Mississippi College, he worked his way through school while earning a bachelor's degree in business. During his first three years at the company, Howard Woodie McDuffie served as a cement, anhydrous ammonia, and jet fuel dispatcher at branches in Mississippi and Alabama. Following the deregulation of the trucking industry, he established its central dispatch system and coordinated chemical units from 20 different locations as well as those of light oil, asphalt, and cement units from numerous locations. The firm eventually selected him for top executive roles within its Miller Intermodal Logistics Services, Inc., and Miller Leasing, LLC, subsidiaries.
President
Miller Intermodal Logistics Services
July 1977
to June 2006
Full-time
Jackson
United States - Mississippi
- Even before he graduated from college, Howard Woodie McDuffie had started his career in the transport industry. He went to work for Miller Transporters in 1977, first as a cement dispatcher in Brandon, Mississippi, and then as a dispatcher of fuel, oil, and other chemicals in Mobile, Alabama. In 1980, after deregulation of the tank-truck industry, Mr. McDuffie transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, to develop Miller’s central dispatch; he coordinated movement of light-oil units from 10 locations, cement from five, asphalt from four, and chemicals from more than 20 locations. Woodie McDuffie graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton, in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Business.
Mr. McDuffie was promoted to Manager of Central Dispatch at Miller Transporters in 1985 and in 1987 began a telemarketing department at the company. Additionally, in 1989, Mr. McDuffie started an intermodal department to coordinate single-journey transport of materials by more than one type of carrier. When cement business declined at the Brandon terminal, he developed rail-to-truck transloading at the site.
After leaving Miller Transporters in 1994, Mr. McDuffie started Miller Intermodal Logistics Services (MILS), which has since become a global tank-container operation. As President of MILS, Mr. McDuffie created a global-agent network, handling more than 200 tank containers monthly in more than 52 countries on five continents; he managed 40‒50 tank containers per month in all 50 states and two U.S. territories. In 1996 and 1997, MILS was Eastman Chemical’s No. 3 tank-container operator. Between 1994 and 2006, Mr. McDuffie increased MILS revenues to more than $10 million.
