Tag: Highway Hero

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Goodyear seeking nominations for annual Highway Hero award

The three finalists will receive expense-paid trips to the 2020 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, where the winner will be announced.

November 6, 2019

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Navy vet trucker named Goodyear Highway Hero

Paul Mathias had just stopped his truck at a stoplight when an SUV with a mother and two children inside was making a left turn when it was struck by a dump truck. Mathias contacted 911 and then helped the mother and performed CPR on the boy. He checked on a young girl in the car, but she had died.

March 29, 2019

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Three drivers named finalists for Goodyear’s Highway Hero Award

The Highway Hero Award winner will be named at MATS later this month. Finalists are: Darrell Atkins, who rescued an elderly couple involved in a bad crash; Don Frederick, who pulled a fellow trucker from a crash and administered live-saving aid; and Paul Mathias, who performed CPR on a child involved in a fatal crash.

March 4, 2019

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Nominations for Goodyear Highway Hero award due next week

The award recognizes drivers who have performed heroic deeds during the course of their normal work day. The nomination period is open through November 29.

November 21, 2018

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Goodyear seeking nominations for annual Highway Hero award

Goodyear Highway Hero award nominations are open through Nov 29, 2018. Check out the criteria for nominees & meet Frank Vieira, Highway Hero, on Overdrive.

October 10, 2018

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Trucker who saved motorist after grisly accident named 35th Goodyear Highway Hero

When an SUV ran into the back of a parked roll-off truck, Frank Vieira stopped his truck to help and found SUV driver’s neck had been pierced by a piece of broken steering wheel. He applied pressure to the wound, called 911 and was able to save the driver’s life.

March 23, 2018

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Two days remain to nominate truckers for Goodyear’s Highway Hero award

Nominees must be full-time truckers and reside in the U.S. or Canada. Their heroic event must have occurred in the U.S. or Canada while the nominee was on the job or on their way to or from work and in his or her rig between Nov. 16, 2016, and Nov. 16, 2017.

November 27, 2017

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Kentucky driver who saved jailer adds to awards collection with Carnegie Medal for Heroism

Clint Blackburn, a Kentucky driver who saved a law enforcement officer from an attack by a hostile prisoner and was named the 32nd Goodyear Highway Hero earlier this year, is one of 18 people to receive a Carnegie Medal for Heroism.

July 7, 2015

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Goodyear names Highway Hero finalists

Four finalists have been named for Goodyear’s annual Highway Hero Award, with stories ranging from rescuing a young boy from a fiery car, pulling a man to safety from a fiery crash and over-the-cliff truck and pulling a pickup truck from a pond to save a college student.

February 12, 2014

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Goodyear looking for Highway Hero nominations

Goodyear is accepting until Nov. 29 nominations for its annual Highway Hero Award, which honors truck drivers who put themselves in harm’s way to help others.

November 7, 2013

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Salute: Another on-highway hero

Driver Frederick Golden’s late-November assistance to a victim of a brick thrown from an Alabama overpass deserves recognition.

December 22, 2012

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Driver team helps family after accident

The Truckload Carriers Association has named the team operation of Laurent Pennacchio and Olegas Milevskis as its latest Highway Angels.

September 5, 2012