Trucker of the year

It’s not often a trucker gets the front-page treatment in a mainstream newspaper’s business section, but such was the case for James Loveland, Willie Shaw Express driver and 2009 Truckload Carriers Association Company Equipment Driver of the Year, an award partly sponsored by Truckers News, after Loveland appeared on the cover of our May issue. In a story in his hometown newspaper, the Mobile Press-Register — “‘Outlaw Hog’ top company truck driver” — by K.A. Turner, Loveland makes good on his new status as ambassador to the general public for the profession he loves.