Larry Bentz Email & Phone Number

York, Pa

S&H Express www.sandhexpress.com is Family-owned and Asset-based with 300+ power units (excluding jockey and dedicated) and 2000+ 53' plate trailers. We specialize in Asset-based Truck Load, Less than Truck Load Transportation services throughout the Northeastern US and into the Carolinas. Additionally, S&H offers dedicated jockey and shuttle service for some of the region's largest manufacturers. The Shelly Truck Driving School www.shellytruckdrivingschool.com is one of the few private CDL Class A truck-driving schools in Pennsylvania that is owned and operated by a leader in the trucking and transportation industry. We also have a Pneumatic Dry-Bulk Division that services PA, MD, VA, NJ and DE.

12 Gotwals Ln., Oley, Pa 19547

I am affable, technically astute and possess excellent organizational skills. My methodical and creative approach to prospecting and maintaining existing accounts has afforded me consistent success and endeared me to prospective and established customers alike. I've trained and managed personnel in both the Operations and Sales departments, instilling principles to ensure a remarkable service experience for our customers.= The vast majority of our company's current daily Line-haul is new business which I generated through research and cold calling in a competitive, commoditized marketplace. = Responsible for creating an entirely new Bulk Materials Division at Xpressway, which, in less than five years, includes dozens of Tri-axles, Dump Trailers, and Walking Floor Trailers and resulted in the hiring of over 100 people! This is all NEW business and every lane is optimized to maximize profitability. RECRUITING= Talent Acquisition for the Equine Transportation Division. Responsible for identifying and recruiting some of the nation's most professional drivers with equine experince, to be an integral part our elite and exclusive team. = Recruiter for Regional, Dry-van and Bulk Transportation Divisions. — Create marketing programs and materials to attract drivers to the Xpressway family of companies. — Assess Driver Candidates skills and safety by personally conducting road tests and interviews.TECHNOLOGY= Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office™ products: Excel, Access, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Publisher as well as excellent photo & video editing skills using Adobe Photo Editor, Premier Elements Video Editor and Paint Shop Pro.

Reading, Pa

Fireside Hearth & Homes a Division of HHT manufacturers, premier brands of stoves and fireplaces: Harman Stoves, Quadra Fire, Heatilator'​ Heat & Glo and comprehensive line of Hearth Products, Mantels and Surrounds. I represented Berks, Chester and Schuylkill Counties in Eastern Pennsylvania, representing the Heatilator & Heat & Glo product lines. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Despite the worst housing market in decades, within my first year, I negotiated and secured a very large National Builder and three substantial Regional Builders to be their exclusive provider of Hearth Products.- Provided start-up, calibration and systems' check after installation - Provided technical training and support to my colleagues in the North East region.== Unfortunately, the lack of new home construction compelled me to seek employment in the transportation industry which was less effected by the recession.

Souderton, Pa

www.corradoandsons.comAs Sales & Marketing Manager, I was given the task to promote our company's old world craftsmanship and our ability to utilize all the commercial masonry resources needed to get the job done expeditiously. We were extremely successful in doing so and captured quite a bit of the lucrative, ultra high-end, custom home market in suburban Philadelphia. Unfortunately, despite exceptional leadership and a diverse portfolio of both commercial and residential work, this company like many others, became a casualty of the Housing Bubble and the economy. It was sold to an employee and reformed as an LLC, with a much more limited focus on residential masonry.RESPONSIBILITIES:-- Guided the creation of our web site which exudes warmth and the exceptional quality of our work.-- Guided the creation of our award winning brochure which is visually elegant, tacitly unique and completely unprecedented in our industry. -- Photographed and edited most of the content for both the web site and the brochure (Excerpts may be viewed at www.corradoandsons.com-- Years of service and numerous, personal contacts in the Custom Home Building Industry, instantly increased our prospective client base and afforded us many opportunities.-- Conducted Power Point Presentation Customer Luncheons with Suburban & Metro Philadelphia’s most prestigious Custom Home Builders, Architects and Large Commercial Contractors.-- Attended networking events with the Philadelphia AIA and Chester County HBA and the South Eastern PA Chapter of the ABC.

Sales ManagerRolling Rock Building Stone is an amazing operation and is the Eastern United States largest producer of Natural Building Stone Products. -- Managed a sales staff of 6, increasing sales from $1.5M to >$10M during my tenure-- Established a culture of proactive, comprehensive customer service, to successfully mitigate the competitive disadvantage of our geographical location in relation to our core market. -- Customer loyalty was such, that they’d regularly have their clients drive an hour past our competition to select materials from us.-- Created a customer database using MS Access & instituted procedures and tools for seamless, access to information.-- The diversity of our customers demanded that I effectively communicate and interact regularly with the very affluent, architects, builder, foremen and the contractor.-- Photographed and edited most of the content on the company web site. www.rollrock.com-- Trained personnel in the off-season to develop new skill sets.

Sales of Industrial Process Controls to the Printing, Packaging and Paper Converting Industries. -- Received Salesman of the Year Award.-- Covered the Mid-Atlantic area while working from a home office-- Used my technological background to work in conjunction with the Customer's Engineering Department to design solutions using our intelligent, closed-loop guidance systems -- Understand and troubleshoot Electro-hydraulic, Electro Pneumatic and Electro-mechanical systems,

FARCO USA was a Swiss company that specialized in automated and manual equipment that placed, soldered and de-soldered, Very Large Scale Integrated Components onto multi-layered circuit boards. This was at the advent of miniaturization and multi-layered boards in electronic manufacturing. -- Provided technical support, to the component level, for sophisticated micro-robotic machines throughout North America. (Clients included Compaq, Motorola, IBM, Intel Corporation, etc.)-- Possess a thorough understanding of electro-mechanic, electro-pneumatic systems-- Read and understand electronic schematics and can troubleshoot to the component level-- Capable of fine micro adjustment in equipment planarity and robotic vision.-- Able to concentrate and successfully perform my duties under the tremendous pressure associated with production line down time.(No Longer in business)

Reading, Pa (No Longer In Business)

-- Maintained large multiple mini-computer systems and their associated peripherals in a hospital environment and their satellite offices.-- Performed service on all electronic equipment under contract on the hospital floor to the subassembly level and then repaired to the component level in the shop-- Received certification for innumerable manufacturers schools-- Conducted weekly training for colleagues and device instruction to hospital personnel.(No longer in business)