Top mayoral candidates make their case at Metro Chamber debate
BikePortland | Jonathan Maus | September 12, 2024
Three top contenders for the position of Portland Mayor took part in a debate this morning at the downtown Hilton. Corporate CEO Keith Wilson and city commissioners Rene Gonzalez and Carmen Rubio spent an hour sharing why they’re the right person to lead our city. The event was sponsored by the Portland Metro Chamber (formerly Portland Business Alliance) and moderated by Ken Boddie from KOIN News. Read more...
3 Portland mayoral hopefuls speak at forum
Koin6 | Kaitlin Flanigan | September 12, 2024
Three Portland mayoral candidates spoke at a Forum Thursday morning, outlining their plans and sharing their priorities if elected in November.
The candidates, Rene Gonzalez, Keith Wilson and Carmen Rubio, each took turns answering questions covering topics like homelessness, taxes and crime within the city.
During opening statements, Wilson spoke on his goals of ending houselessness in Portland, calling attention to the fact that he comes from the private sector as opposed to the two other candidates at the forum who both work in politics. Read more...
Portland mayoral debate draws out top candidates’ disagreements on homelessness, housing, policing
The OregonianOregon Live | By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | September 12, 2024
Three top candidates for Portland mayor outlined their visions for the city Thursday during a substantive — and, at times, mildly contentious — debate.
Rene Gonzalez and Carmen Rubio, both Portland city commissioners, and businessman Keith Wilson fielded questions focused on some of the city’s most pressing issues while casting about for why each would be the best to solve them. Read more...
Mayoral Candidate Keith Wilson Is Indefatigable
Willamette Week | By Sophie Peel | August 21, 2024
Keith Wilson is a serious man, running a serious business, whose campaign to become Portland’s next mayor is centered on the most serious problem in the city: homelessness. Wilson has unlocked $100,000 in matching taxpayer funds for his campaign, making him one of just three mayoral candidates, along with City Commissioners Carmen Rubio and Rene Gonzalez, to qualify so far. A relentless campaigner, he received more individual contributions last month than any other candidate. Paige Richardson, a longtime political consultant, says she’s “never seen anybody who can get as much done, or do as many things.” Read more...
End Homelessness in One Year? Mayor Candidate Keith Wilson
PDX Black Rose Podcast | June 17, 2024
Keith Wilson, President and CEO of TITAN Freight Systems, running for mayor of Portland
Rational in Portland by Kristin Olson | June 3, 2024
Businessman, non-profit founder Keith Wilson on campaign for Portland mayor
by KOIN Staff | May 10, 2024
NW Fresh - Episode 43 - Keith Wilson Portland Mayoral Candidate and Titan Freight CEO
by KATU Staff | Sun, April 3rd, 2024
YVYV: Keith Wilson, Portland mayoral candidate & Jim Moore's analysis
by KATU Staff | Sun, March 31st 2024 at 1:03 PM
Portland mayoral candidate Keith Wilson says he knows how to revitalize a dying Rose City
March 21, 2024
Wilson is the CEO of a trucking business and founder of the nonprofit Shelter Portland. He pledges to end homelessness in his first year as mayor. Watch the interview here: watch now
Unveiling the West Coast’s Electric Big Truck Future
Peter Fairley | March 10th, 2024
Few things get trucking mini-magnate Keith Wilson more excited than a spreadsheet spitting out a smashing business case. The owner of Titan Freight Systems and recent entry in Portland, Oregon’s mayoral race waxes passionate on fighting homelessness, economic stagnation and climate change. But first and foremost, Wilson is a business person. And he beams as he computes the electrification of Titan’s fleet of delivery trucks and freight haulers… read more
Advancing Portland: Meet 43 Game Changers leading the way forward
Portland Business Journal Staff | March 4th, 2024
There are hundreds of Portlanders doing good, unsung work everyday. Who'd be on your list? Let me know, and we'll do our best to highlight their efforts in a future game changers compilation.
For now, read on and take comfort knowing that thanks to the tireless efforts of the following individuals, Portland's future is bright… read more
Get to know Portland mayoral candidate Keith Wilson
Jonathan Maus | February 15, 2024
As I listened to Keith Wilson give a speech at Bike Happy Hour last night it occurred to me his life has been sort of like Forrest Gump. He’s got an interesting and diverse background and set of life experiences you’d never expect from a trucking company CEO.
If you knew that his company, Titan Freight Systems, runs and all-electric fleet and that just before coming to the event last night he gave invited testimony on decarbonization in the freight industry to the State of Washington Transportation Commission, or that he was once so poor he spent nights in LaGuardia Airport… read more
Oregon shipping company uses new all-electric trucks for deliveries
Chris McGinness | January 3, 2024
PORTLAND, Oregon — Every time you go to a store or a restaurant, what you're buying, eating and using was most likely delivered on a gas-powered vehicle. Those in the trucking industry may say, 'If you bought it, a truck brought it.'
"That's exactly right, 80% of goods are moved by a truck," said Keith Wilson, CEO of Milwaukie-based Titan Freight Systems. "It could be knock down desks, it could be cleaning supplies for our hotels and hospitality, it could be printed paper products." … read more
Electric Evolution: Electric truck evangelists say upfront investments deliver big rig-sized ROIs.
Pete Danko | November 28, 2023
No single sector spews more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in Oregon than transportation — about 35% of the state's total in 2021. And trucks, from cargo vans to big rigs, are responsible for more than 40% of transportation emissions.
They're also a significant source of other pollutants, including particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, that have known adverse health effects, especially in underserved communities… read more
Meet HDT’s 2022 Truck Fleet Innovators
Deborah Lockridge and Vesna Brajkovic | May 18, 2022
Hungry for more, not afraid to fail, and a commitment to advancing the industry. These are all common traits among the most innovative fleet executives we’ve met in the industry.
They’re the people who introduce new technologies or new methods for doing things, and those who are no stranger to changing things up. Whether through groundbreaking and revolutionary breakthroughs, or by simply implementing something in a new way, truck fleet innovators challenge conventional notions of how things have been done before… read more
TITAN Freight Systems Keith Wilson on rethinking strategies to reduce emissions
John Davies | November 18, 2021
John Davies, Senior Vice President and Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Keith Wilson, President and CEO at TITAN Freight Systems, during VERGE 21… read more
Innovators: Titan Freight exec plans to bridge the divide to zero-emissions
Aaron Huff | February 1, 2021
Titan Freight Systems in 2010 set an ambitious goal to reduce fleet emissions by 20% within a decade.
The Portland, Oregon-based company’s Vision 2020 plan had metrics tied to fuel efficiency gains. To execute on those metrics, Titan replaced most of the 2007 EPA Tier 2 and older engine emission trucks in its fleet and invested hundreds of thousands in aftermarket products that included engine idle shut off devices, cab fairings, trailer side skirts, wheel covers and technology for monitoring driver speeds and behaviors… read more
