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AWARDS * Canada & USA
* Canada - Trucking pioneers recognized in Alberta
Banff,ALB,CAN -Truck News, by Jan Westell -29 April 2008: -- The Alberta Motor Transport Association has recognized five individuals who are principals of Alberta fleet operations, and who have been in involved with the trucking industry for 50 years. Sandy de Waal, of East West Express, Bruno Muller of Wiebel Express and Transport, D'Arcy Foder of H&R Transport, and Roland and Leona Mullen, of Mullen Trucking, were awarded the American Truck Historical Society's Golden Achievement Award at the AMTA's annual convention... "Dad and Mom laid the foundation of this company that we are continuing to build on today"...
* USA - Great American Trucking Family entries due May 1
USA -eTrucker -29 April 2008: -- CCJ's sister publication Truckers News is looking for a family with deep roots in trucking. The 2008 Great American Trucking Family contest rewards one family each year whose family tree has produced a bumper crop of truckers, past and present. If your family history is full of men and women who drive, or drove, big rigs for a living, you could be the winning family... Members of the winning family will have their family portrait photograph on the cover of the August Truckers News. Family members will be flown to Dallas for the Aug. 21-23 Great American Trucking Show, where they’ll have a night to remember at one of the city’s most famous restaurants, be VIPs at show events and receive the award onstage at a country music concert...
* Canada - AMTA presents Service to the Industry Award to popular past-president
Banff,ALB,CAN -Truck News, by Jan Westell -29 April 2008: -- Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) presented its Service to the Industry Award to a popular and humble past-president at the AMTA convention this past weekend... Henry VanSteenbergen began in the industry as a youth with his father's company, Western Alberta Produce... In the mid-1980s, VanSteenbergen and his father discussed succession, but in 1987, Lilydale Inc. made a generous offer which the younger VanSteenbergen couldn't resist... After the sale went through, VanSteenbergen worked for Lilydale, but eventually bought Legal Transport, a one-truck operation that hauled eggs for Lilydale. He changed the name to Legal Freight Services and in just over 17 years, grew the company to 50 tractors and trailers...
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