Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson will take a leadership role at trucking and logistics business U.S. Xpress in August, shifting gears from a career spent entirely in education to a publicly-traded company with ambitious growth goals.
“I’m really excited and intrigued to be pushed and challenged – not that I haven’t been,” Johnson said. “You know I’ve been challenged and pushed in my superintendency, but being challenged in a different way around an industry that really is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, and with an organization that has some of the boldest goals in the industry.”
Johnson will be the U.S. Xpress chief of staff, reporting directly to CEO Eric Fuller and tackling strategic, multi-departmental initiatives in the newly created role, Fuller said.
Among the company’s goals is doubling revenue in the next four years, doubling community engagement, expanding training and development and growing its digitally-managed Variant fleet. U.S. Xpress has 10,000 employees and had operating income of $43.5 million in 2020.
“At U.S. Xpress, we’ve been going through a big transition, and obviously that requires bandwidth and talented individuals to make that operational,” Fuller said. “When I learned that Bryan might be interested in entering the private sector, that immediately intrigued me.”