The head of Pilot Flying J, Jimmy Haslam, has announced that he will be stepping down from his role as CEO on January 1st, 2021.
Pilot’s Chief Strategy Officer, Shameek Konar will replace Haslam as CEO. Konar has been with Pilot since 2017. Though he won’t fully take over from Haslam until the new year, he will be starting to take on additional responsibilities right away.
“Since day one with Pilot in 2017, Shameek has shown his dedication to advancing our company and the industry,” said Haslam according to a Pilot press release. “Shameek has successfully launched and grown our Pilot Energy business and become a key member of our leadership team. His knowledge of the energy sector, including expertise in the acquisition, development and operations of infrastructure assets and resources, and his deep appreciation of Pilot’s culture and values are a few of the reasons why we chose him to be our next CEO.”
Pilot’s executive structure had a shakeup after the infamous Pilot Flying J fuel rebate scam. A federal investigation led to an FBI raid on the company headquarters. The raid and investigation led to fines, lawsuits, and guilty pleas or convictions from several former Pilot employees including former president Mark Hazelwood who was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. Haslam was never indicted.
Haslam will remain involved in the company as Chairman of the Board. His father, founder James Haslam, will serve as chairman emeritus. His brother – former Governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam – and his daughter will continue to serve on the board as well.
“When joining the Pilot family, I was immediately drawn to the strong culture that Jimmy and the entire Haslam family created,” said Konar. “As CEO, I will be deeply committed to keeping those values in place and investing in our team, while also working to better serve our guests, advance our goals and continue to strategically grow the business.”
Source: Pilot, truckinginfo, ttnews, knoxnews
Maybe for the better. Pilot has taken polices against the owner operator and change is needed. I stop going to pilots. Can’t keep your showers credits that you earned past five days. I mean you earned them. Pilot takes them away. A big one is Pilot does not honor debit purchase for fuel as cash price. They charge credit fuel price for debit and credit. Something that could be fixed and help owner operators.
Jimmy Haslam knew about the Rebate scam. But he is rich and powerful. This is how our country works. Just look what happened to the governor in Illinois. He took the fall for Obama.
Shameek Konar is an alien.
His first objective should be to raze the Pilot in Charlottesville NC
Rude and Incompetent employees and the ammonia stench in the lot is enough to make you choke
Bleh
You know, I’ve followed this story since it broke.
Loved every second of it; including the former President’s plea not to go to prison till after Christmas so he could spend the holidays with his kids first. The guy who stole and pocketed millions.
Now, just now, I’m learning this guy is the brother of former governor of Tennessee. I wonder how he escaped charges.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂😂😂😂
Corruption starts at the bottom, and works it’s way up.
Even small town trucking companies have a need for politics. To make sure locally neighbors of a plant of facility can’t complain and interfere with profits over grievances such as noise and road deterioration.
Trucking, manufacturing, ECT. ECT. ECT.
Everything plays politics, and that by definition is corruption. Because it is only for those who make the most money does it benefit.
Yes the strong culture at pilot of ripping off drivers at every opportunity.
They are just replacing one weasel for another weasel.
Well the stench in the parking lot is because of the driver’s the only one can stop that is the drivers quiet dumping your piss bottle in parking lot Carey it to the grass area.
Once a thief always a thief.
No big loss, he f d all the drivers out of discounts and bought the Cleveland browns so when Warren Buffett and his cronies take over some other d bag on charge, he already rich f what does he care ,as he says Jimmy
Maybe he will clean the Pilots up. Nasty
” Excuse me, but corruption starts at the top !!! And our dismal Government bribes individuals to go south so they can feel blameless !
SAD…
So what? Who cares? How will any of this be better for us drivers, who make yhese guys rich. We are still treated like trash by them