Shelli Austin has spent most of her career in transportation logistics, a field she says she just "fell into." But she didn't know much about railroading until after 2004, when she went to work for IDS Transportation and was asked to develop an intermodal service for the company. Since then, Austin has been "taking the domestic intermodal market by storm," says Rick LaGore, IDS' ex-ecutive vice president and chief operating of-ficer, and one of several people who nominated Austin as a Rising Star. "Shelli has been instrumental in transforming our business from a regional truckload brokerage company to one that is firmly entrenched in the domestic intermodal market in just a few short years," LaGore wrote.
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