Past Award Recipients
Slideshow of Past Salzberg Winners
| Year | First Name | Last Name | Title | Company |
| 2012 | Michael | Haverty | Executive Chairman | Kansas City Southern |
| 2012 | Don | Ralph | SVP, Supply Chain & Logistics | Staples |
| 2011 | Yossi | Sheffi | Elisha Gray II Prof | M.I.T. |
| 2011 | C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc | |||
| 2010 | PepsiCo | |||
| 2009 | Malcom | McLean (posthumous) | ||
| 2009 | Michael | Ward | Chief Executive Officer | CSX Transportation |
| 2008 | NIKE | |||
| 2007 | William G. "Gus" | Pagonis | Retired President Retired Senior Vice President |
Sears Logistics Sears, Roebuck & Co. |
| 2006 | Glen T. | Meakam | Managing General Partner | Meakem Becker Venture Capital |
| 2005 | Herbert S. | Shear | Chair and Chief Executive Officer | Genco Distribution Services |
| 2004 | Robert G. | Brown | Materials Management Systems, Inc. | |
| 2004 | Dell, Inc | |||
| 2003 | Wegmans Food Markets Inc. | |||
| 2002 | William | Copacino | Global Managing Partner, SCM Service Lines | Accenture |
| 2002 | Maria A. | McIntyre | Executive Vice President and COO | Council of Logistics Management |
| 2001 | Larry M. | Sur | Chief Executive Officer | Iogistics Inc. |
| 2000 | George D. | Warrington | President and Chief Executive Officer | National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) |
| 2000 | Myron P. | Shevell | Chairman of the Board | New England Motor Freight Inc. |
| 2000 | Raymond C. | Burton, Jr. | President and Chief Executive Officer | TTX Company |
| 1999 | J.B. | Hunt | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. | |
| 1999 | Professor Robert P. | Neuschel | Professor of Corporate Governance | J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University |
| 1998 | Guenter | Rohrmann | President and Chief Executive Officer | Air Express International, Inc. |
| 1998 | Nicholas J. | LaHowchic | President and Chief Executive Officer | Limited Distribution Services, Inc. |
| 1998 | Mary Lou | Fox | Senior Vice President | Manugistics, Inc. |
| 1997 | Joseph C. | Andraski | Vice President of Customer Marketing | Nabisco, Inc. |
| 1997 | J.C. "Cam" | Carruth | President and Chief Executive Officer | USFreightways, Inc. |
| 1997 | Southwest Airlines Company, Inc. | |||
| 1996 | James E. | Comerford | President and Chief Executive Officer | Sears Logistics Services Inc. |
| 1996 | Theodore O. | Wallin | Associate Professor of Transportation and Marketing | Syracuse University, School of Management |
| 1996 | Newton A. | Graves | Vice President of Customer Relations | Yellow Corporation |
| 1996 | Traffic World Magazine | |||
| 1995 | Phillip C. | Yeager | Chairman | The Hub Group, Inc. |
| 1995 | Aaron J. | Gellman | Director, The Transportation Center | J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University |
| 1994 | Donald J. | Schneider | President and CEO | Schneider National, Inc. |
| 1994 | William J. | Augello | Executive Director/General Counsel | Transportation Claims and Prevention Council Inc. |
| 1994 | The Port of Singapore Authority | |||
| 1993 | James A. | Hagen | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer | Consolidated Rail Corporation |
| 1993 | Council of Logistics Management | |||
| 1992 | Clifford F. | Lynch | President | Trammell Crow Distribution Corporation |
| 1992 | Dr. George W. | Wilson | Distinguished Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy | Indiana University School of Business |
| 1992 | Colorado Transportation Community | |||
| 1991 | W. Don | Welch | Executive Director | South Carolina State Ports Authority |
| 1991 | Nat | Welch | Chairman | International Intermodal Expo |
| 1990 | George E. | Powell, Jr. | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Yellow Freight Systems, Inc. |
| 1989 | Hays T. | Watkins | Chairman of the Board | CSX Corporation |
| 1989 | Donald J. | Bowersox | Professor of Marketing and Logistics | Michigan State University |
| 1988 | Robert V. | Delaney | Practice leader for Transportation | Arthur D. Little Inc. |
| 1988 | John L. | Hazard | Professor, Marketing and Transportation Department | Michigan State University |
| 1987 | Richard | Haupt | Director of Transportation & Traffic Department | Ford Motor Company |
| 1987 | Clarence M. | Ditlow | Executive Director | Center for Auto Safety |
| 1987 | United Parcel Service | |||
| 1986 | Dr. Alfred E. | Kahn | Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy | Cornell University |
| 1985 | Dr. L.L. | Waters | Professor Emeritus of Transportation | Indiana University |
| 1985 | John C. | Emery, Jr. | Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer | Emery Air Freight Corporation |
| 1984 | James M. | Beggs | Administrator | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| 1983 | Dr. Bernard J. | La Londe | Riley Professor of Marketing and Logistics | Ohio State University |
| 1983 | L. Stanley | Crane | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer | Consolidated Rail Corporation |
| 1982 | Robert A. | Bandeen | President, Chief Executive Officer | Canadian National Railway System |
| 1981 | Frederick W. | Smith | Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer | Federal Express Corporation |
| 1980 | J. Robert | Morton | Vice President | Combustion Engineering, Inc. |
| 1979 | Louis J. | Gambaccini | Commissioner | New Jersey State Department of Transportation |
| 1978 | Wayne M. | Hoffman | President and Chief Executive Officer | Tiger International Inc. |
| 1978 | Dr. Charles A. | Taff | Professor of Transportation | College of Business and Management, University of Maryland |
| 1977 | William K. | Smith | Vice President of Transportation | General Mills Corporation |
| 1976 | Raymond T. | Schuler | Commissioner | New York State Department of Transportation |
| 1975 | B.R. | Stokes | Executive Director | American Public Transit Association |
| 1974 | William B. | Johnson | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Illinois Central Industries, Inc. |
| 1974 | Virgil D. | Cover | Director of Graduate Studies | Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Georgia |
| 1973 | William G. | White | Chairman and President | Consolidated Freightways, Inc. |
| 1972 | Paul W. | Cherington | James J. Hill Professor of Transportation | Harvard University |
| 1968 | Alfred E. | Perlman | President | Penn Central Transportation Company |
| 1968 | William Pearson | Tolley | Chancellor | Syracuse University |
| 1967 | J. Burch | McMorran | Commissioner | Department of Transporation,State of New York |
| 1966 | Alan S. | Boyd | Secretary of Transporation | |
| 1965 | Robert E. | Peach | President | Mohawk Airlines, Inc. |
| 1964 | Walter F. | Carey | President | Automobile Carriers-Dealers Transit, Inc. |
| 1963 | Hugh L. | Dryden | Deputy Administrator | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| 1962 | I. Sewell | Morris | Commander | Defense Traffic Management Service, Department of Defense |
| 1961 | Stuart T. | Saunders | President | Norfolk and Western Railway Company |
| 1960 | Lewis G. | Castle | Administrator | The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation |
| 1959 | Hon. Elwood R. | Quesada | Administrator | Federal Aviation Agency |
| 1958 | George P. | Baker | James J. Hill Professor of Transportation | Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration |
| 1957 | Charles F. | Kettering | former General Manager | General Motors Research Laboratories |
| 1956 | Howard S. | Cullman | Honorary Chairman | Board of Commissioners, Port of New York Authority |
| 1955 | E. Grosvenor | Plowman | Vice President for Traffic | United States Steel Corporation |
| 1954 | Thomas H. | MacDonald | former Commissioner | Bureau of Public Roads |
| 1953 | Hon. Clyde B. | Aitchison | former Commissioner | Interstate Commerce Commission |
| 1952 | Harmer E. | Davis | Director | Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, University of California |
| 1951 | Richard C. | Colton | Vice President | Lykes Brothers Company, Inc. |
| 1950 | C.R. | Smith | Chairman of the Board | American Airlines Inc. |
| 1949 | Lewis K. | Sillcox | Honorary Vice Chairman of the Board | New York Air Brake Co. |