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NPTC leadership awards honor fleets & suppliers

April 21, 2011

CINCINNATI. The NPTC Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition, which wrapped up earlier this week in Ohio, took time throughout the event to honor those who contribute to the overall good of the industry and the organization.
The professional leadership awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to NPTC, their profession and the private trucking community. This year’s award winners were:

Private Fleet Executive of the Year: Rick Foster, CDS, director, private fleet safety, Wal-Mart Transportation, LLC
Private Fleet Safety Professional of the Year: Bill Hartman, CTP, manager, private fleet operations, GNC Transportation, LLC
Private Fleet Member of the Year: Gary Strausbaugh, CTP, vice president transportation, Mennel Milling Company
Allied Member of the Year: D. Michael Pennington, manager of industry relations for Meritor (formerly Arvin Meritor).
Membership Development: Brian McLaughlin, executive vice president and COO, PeopleNet
Daniel P. Smith Life Achievement: Charles Bumb for helping to create the current NPTC.

About the Author

Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.