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WH Transportation takes pride in having some of the safest professional truck drivers on the road today. 160 of WH Transportation’s 370 drivers and contractors have received safe driving awards. The be eligible for the award a driver must have driven a minimum of one year for WH Transportation and not have been involved in a preventable accident of any kind.
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We are extremely proud to announce the names of the 2007 award recipients.
Of this group of safe drivers, 63 of them qualified for our Honor Fleet Award program as well. To be eligible for this award a driver must have driven a minimum of 125,250 miles had no preventable accidents, No late pick ups or deliveries, paid close attention to keeping idle time low and conserved fuel by driving efficiently, drivers received additional points for number of years with the company, overall compliance, no cargo claims, and referrals. Of those 63 drivers, the top 10% of them from their division were chosen for our Honors Fleet Award.
Those drivers are:
Van Division
Robert Smith, Eugene Rhoads, Stacey Tepp, Dan Schmitt, Joey Holzem, and Greg Mielke
Flatbed
Brian Krause
House Haul
Steve Herzog
In addition to all of that, 35 drivers were also awarded the President Safe Driving Award presented by the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association. To qualify for this award a driver must remain employed with the same carrier for 3 consecutive years, have no accidents (preventable or non-preventable) for 3 consecutive years, and have no moving violations of any kind for 3 consecutive years.
The winners of this award are:
Mike Boitho, Brian Dolan, Robert Edmondson, John Everson, David Gerken, David Graff, Gary Hardinger, Steve Herzog, Dale Hoffman, Joey Holzem, Daniel Huffman, Brian Krause, Wayne Kriegel, Dave Kriesel, Dave Lampsa, Russ Mielke, John Martin, Eila Mathias, Greg Mielke, Jerome Mieska, Karen Neal, William Neal, Claude Nease, John Nickel, Joe Oswald, Tom Rasmussen, Larry Sabatke, Pete Santeford, Keith Schepp, Matt Straka, Jeff Tachick, Fran Van Vonderen, Joe Ward, Gary Zastrow, and Todd Zinda
“We couldn’t be more happy with the incredible group of professionals we have operating our trucks and supplying our country with the goods and materials we all use each and every day. These men and women who do this job deserve respect and gratitude for what they do. They keep the country moving by delivering the products we all use everyday to our shelves. They cover more ground in a year than many of us do in 10 years.” Said Dan Garcia Director of Safety/ Recruiting.
WH Transportation drivers and contractors deliver locally manufactured products throughout the
United States
and
Canada
and in 2007 they drove in excess of 40 million miles collectively.
