Fleet Owner hosted the magazine’s 2015 Fleet of the Year awards presentation at a special dinner held in conjunction with the annual Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) convention in Nashville, TN. WIX Filters was the co-sponsor for this 14th annual recognition of outstanding fleet management.
Jim Mele, Fleet Owner’s editor-in-chief, and Mike Harvey, national sales manager for WIX Filters, presented the magazine’s yearly Fleet of the Year awards to representatives from the three winners: Phill Reynolds, VP of maintenance with TL carrier Transport America, Eagan, MN; Cameron Hafer, DOT compliance and driver development director for Trans Papa Logistics, Inc., Louisville, KY; and Ronald E. Oakley Jr., VP of sales and marketing for Oakley Transport, Inc., Lake Wales, FL.
“There is no formal nomination or application process for our Fleet of the Year awards,” Mele noted during the presentation. “Our editors interact with hundreds of fleets in course of a year and while all have valuable stories to tell, a few simply stand out from the rest – for their management skills, for their successes, and most of all for their innovative approaches to running outstanding fleet operations.”
Transport America won Fleet of the Year honors in the for-hire category for its work with