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    Love's Travel Stops
    Gemini Motor Transport is NTTC’s first North American safety champion in the new private-fleet division. Gemini previously claimed a Heil trophy as a for-hire carrier but 80% of its business is in serving Love’s Travel Stops.
    Harmac
    Harmac Transportation, part of the Canada-based Seaboard group, won its first Heil trophy by putting safety first in everything the company does.
    Tandet Logistics
    Seen together, Tandet Logistics’ two Heil trophies look like bookends, which is only appropriate since it’s the first tank truck carrier to win in both for-hire categories.
    ASC
    Glen Parsons transformed Alchemist Specialty Carriers into a winning business by putting people ahead of profits.
    Solar Transport
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    Lacy’s Express
    After winning the Heil Trophy, the Lacy’s Express team decided they needed a place to display it and their many other NTTC awards. The new 100-ft.-by-50-ft. building also boasts 25 Grand awards, 20 personnel safety awards, 20 safety improvement awards, and six Honor awards.
    Charles Wilson | Bulk Transporter
    Inspired leadership, rigorous driver training, and elite equipment propelled Houston-based Service Transport to NTTC’s top safety award.
    Bulktransporter Com Sites Bulktransporter com Files Uploads 2014 02 Ttma Plant Safety Awards 0
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    TTMA applaudes trailer manufacturing safety

    Oct. 1, 2013
    THE Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association paid honor to workplace safety by recognizing members with the lowest incidence of accidents. Awards, given to tank and trailer manufacturers, are ranked by the number of man-hours worked. Category A is for plants that totaled more than 750,000 man-hours last year. Category B winners posted between 350,000 and 750,000 for the year, and Category C plants reported fewer than 350,000 man-hours worked in 2012.

    THE Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association paid honor to workplace safety by recognizing members with the lowest incidence of accidents.

    Awards, given to tank and trailer manufacturers, are ranked by the number of man-hours worked. Category A is for plants that totaled more than 750,000 man-hours last year. Category B winners posted between 350,000 and 750,000 for the year, and Category C plants reported fewer than 350,000 man-hours worked in 2012.

    Bulktransporter Com Sites Bulktransporter com Files Uploads 2014 02 Ttma Plant Safety Awards 0
    Winners of TTMA Plant Safety Awards for 2012 are, left to right: Rod Farlow, Strick Trailers; Rick Mullininx, Great Dane Trailers; Robert Foster, Heil Trailer International; John Cannon, Brenner Tank Manufacturing; Randy Williams, Stephens Pneumatics; Lynn Reinbolt, Road Systems; and Nick Eby, M H Eby Inc.

    Category A winners were Great Dane Trailers’ plant in Brazil, Indiana, and Heil Trailer International for its tank plant in, Athens, Tennessee.

    Category B winners were the Strick Trailers plant in Monroe, Indiana, and the Brenner Tank Manufacturing (a Wabash National Company) facility in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

    Category C winners were the Road Systems trailer plant in Searcy, Arkansas, and Stephens Pneumatics in Haslett, Texas.

    M H Eby’s Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, facility won an award as the plant with the most improved safety record.    ♦