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Apr 1, 2004 12:00 PM

WITH AN accident frequency of 0.250 accidents per million miles for 2003, Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc of Houston, Texas, won the Outstanding Performance Trophy in the National Tank Truck Carriers 2003 Tank Truck Safety Contest. This is the first time the Texas-based carrier has won the prestigious NTTC award.

Mission Petroleum Carriers was selected from a group of 15 carriers that won the Grand Award in their respective mileage categories for the calendar year. The fleet also is taking home the Grand Award as the winner in the “36 to 45 million miles class” in the Competitive Safety Contest, the Grand Award in that same mileage category for the Personnel Safety Contest, and a seven-year Improvement Award.

The management team leading the winning company includes Arch E Kelly, president; David Fontenot, executive vice-president; John Featherly, vice-president of operations; and Roy Acton, vice president of safety & compliance.

The Outstanding Performance Trophy is awarded annually by Heil Trailer International of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is presented to the carrier that is judged to have had the best comprehensive safety program in the tank truck industry during the previous year.

Contest judges this year were: Danny Shelton, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; Rich Clemente, Truckload Carriers Association; Randy Zahn, Minnesota State Police; and Oliver Patton, Washington editor of Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine.

NTTC conducts four annual safety contests. These include a Competitive Safety Contest in which carriers compete in separate mileage classes; the Safety Improvement Contest in which a carrier competes against its own record for the previous year; a Personnel Safety Contest that is based on injuries per hours worked; and the Outstanding Performance Contest.

Awards to safety directors in charge of the winning programs were presented at the NTTC Tank Truck Safety Council annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, in April. Winning companies will be recognized at NTTC's 56th Annual Conference & Tank Truck Equipment Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 10-12.

2003 Competitive Safety Contest

2003 Personnel Safety Contest

2003 Competitive Safety Contest — Safety Officials

2003 Improvement Contest

TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR WINNER

Rogers Cartage Co, Milwaukee WI

TWENTY-THIRD YEAR WINNER

Miller Transporters Inc, Jackson MS

TWENTY-FIRST YEAR WINNER

Highway Transport Inc, Knoxville TN

EIGHTEENTH YEAR WINNER

Usher Transport Inc, Louisville KY

SEVENTEENTH YEAR WINNER

Lacy's Express Inc, Pedricktown NJ

SIXTEENTH YEAR WINNERS

Liquid Transport Corp, Indianapolis IN
A J Weigand, Inc, Dover OH

ELEVENTH YEAR WINNERS

Commercial Transport Inc, Belleville IL
Great Lakes Terminal & Transport Corp, Arlington Heights IL
RST Industries, Saint John NB, Canada

TENTH YEAR WINNERS

Eagle Transport Corporation, Rocky Mount NC
McKinley Trucking Co Inc, Carson City MI

NINTH YEAR WINNERS

Linden Bulk Transportation Co Inc, Linden NJ
M C Tank Transport Inc, West Chester OH

EIGHTH YEAR WINNER

Hoffmeier Inc, Tulsa OK

SEVENTH YEAR WINNERS

Atlantic Bulk Carrier Corp, Providence Forge VA
Mission Petroleum Carriers, Inc, Houston TX

SIXTH YEAR WINNERS

Andrews Transport Inc, Ft Worth TX
Ergon Trucking Inc, Jackson MS
Island Transportation Corp, West Babylon NY

FIFTH YEAR WINNERS

Harmac Transportation Inc, North York ON, Canada
United Petroleum Transports Inc, Oklahoma City OK

FOURTH YEAR WINNERS

Blue Flash Express LLC, Zachary LA
Carbon Express Inc, Wharton NJ
Gorski Bulk Transport Inc, Oldcastle ON, Canada
HazMat Environmental Group Inc, Lackawanna NY
ITL (Iowa Tanklines Inc), Ankeny IA
Tank Truck Transport Inc, Kleinburg ON, Canada
Transwood, Inc, Omaha NE
Wheatfield Trucking Co, Milwaukee WI

THIRD YEAR WINNERS

A D Conner, Frankfort IL
Hoffman Transportation Inc, Morris IL

SECOND YEAR WINNERS

Bulkmatic Transport Company, Griffith IN
Dow Dawson Trucking Inc, Escanaba MI
Lone Star Trucking Inc, Bakersfield CA
Ruan Transportation Management Systems, Des Moines IA

FIRST YEAR WINNERS

Crossett Inc, Warren PA
J & M Tank Lines Inc, Americus GA
Martin Transport Inc, Kilgore TX
Northwest Tank Lines Inc, Langley BC, Canada
Petroleum Transport Company Inc, Mt Airy NC
Roeder Cartage Co Inc, Lima OH