Military veteran gets a Kenworth T680

Dec. 16, 2016
Hiring Our Heroes awards vet a free truck

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes group, in partnership with Kenworth Truck Co. and Fastport, awarded U.S. Navy veteran Troy Davidson, a driver for Werner Enterprises, a brand new T680 highway tractor equipped with “all the bells and whistles” as the winner of the 2016 Transition Trucking: Driving For Excellence contest; a truck that retails for $150,000, Kenworth said. (All photos by Sean Kilcarr for Fleet Owner)

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