Yellow driver wins truck driver championship

James March, a driver based in Lancaster, PA, for Yellow Transportation, took top honors at the National Truck Driving Championship this past weekend in Milwaukee. March beat out over 340 other professional truck drivers to claim the Grand Championship title. The contest is comprised of the winners from state truck driving competitions in nine truck types. In the national competition, drivers must

Sean Kilcarr

Aug. 20, 2002

The contest is comprised of the winners from state truck driving competitions in nine truck types. In the national competition, drivers must navigate a variety of driving scenarios, including an alley dock, a rear line stop, a side park, a scales stop, a right turn, a front line stop and straight line driving through a diminishing clearance.

The winners in each competition class were:

Auto Transporter: Joseph Hoffman, Hadley Auto Transport, Arizona
Five-Axle: John Plumer, Wal-Mart, New Hampshire
Flatbed: John Roberts, Publix Supermarkets, Florida
Four-Axle: Larry Breen, Wal-Mart, Florida
Five-Axle Sleeper: Ben Moore, Wal-Mart, Georgia
Straight Truck: David Murphy, Yellow Transportation, Idaho
Tank Truck: Dale Knox, Con-Way Central Express, Pennsylvania
Three-Axle: Richard Seigle, Roadway Express, Illinois

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Sean Kilcarr

Editor in Chief

Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.