ATA Honors the Year’s Best in Trucking

American Trucking Associations (ATA) recognized the winners of several of the industry’s top honors as part of the association’s Leadership and Awards Luncheon at its annual Management Conference & Exhibition.

“This industry provides constant examples of hard work and professionalism exhibited by its people on a daily basis,” said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear.

Among those honored were:

• Roland Bolduc, a professional driver with FedEx Express from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and the 2017 National Truck Driving Championships Bendix Grand Champion;
• Mark McLean, a FedEx Freight technician from Montgomery, New York, who won his third Grand Champion title at the TMC SuperTech competition;
• ATA National Truck Driver of the Year Gary Plant, a professional driver with Walmart Transportation in Loveland, Colorado. Plant has more than 41 years of professional driving and has accumulated 4.4 million accident-free miles.

In addition, ATA also honored three fleets with the ATA’s President’s Award:

• Fortune Transportation is a for-hire, general commodities truckload fleet in Windom, Minnesota, for fleets under 25 million miles;
• A. Duie Pyle, West Chester, Pennsylvania, for fleets between 25 million and 100 million miles and;
  Ruan Transportation headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, for fleets with more than 100 million miles.

ATA will be announcing the winners of National Safety Director of the Year and National Safety Professional Award of Excellence at the Safety, Security & Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition, November 14-16 in Nashville, Tennessee.

The group is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry.

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