Trucking news and briefs for Friday, June 19, 2020:
Landstar to honor drivers at All-Star Truck Giveaway event
Landstar System will hold its 2020 All-Star Truck Giveaway on Wednesday, July 8, in an online Zoom video conference. During the event, the company will give away a 2020 Freightliner Cascadia to one of four owner-operator finalists.
The four finalists are:
The Freightliner up for grabs is Viper Blue and features a Detroit DD15 with a Detroit DT12 automated transmission.
This year’s finalists were randomly drawn from a pool of Landstar’s 1,086 active 1 Million Mile, 2 Million Mile and 3 Million Mile Safe Drivers and Roadstars. The Roadstar designation is the company’s highest honor for owner-operators awarded to the “best of the best” based on their high levels of safety, productivity and excellence in customer service.
Trucker named Highway Angel for helping stranded elderly woman
An ABF Freight driver based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, has been named a Highway Angel by the Truckload Carriers Association for stopping to help an elderly woman stranded on the road.
Greg Truitt was driving on Highway 460 on his way from Roanoke, Virginia, to Charleston, West Virginia, when he hit a deer and noticed a car up ahead backed into a ditch with the front end of the car sticking out into the right travel lane. As he got closer, he could see a white-haired lady in the driver’s seat, and there was a handicap placard hanging from the mirror.
