Briefly: 2 trucking foundations companion to help kids’s hospital
The Trucking Cares Basis and TXTA (Texas Trucking Affiliation) Basis have introduced they’re partnering to assist the Dell Kids’s Basis.
Collectively, the 2 trucking foundations search to lift $50,000 for this Austin-based charity, which is positioned on this yr’s host metropolis for ATA’s 2023 Administration Convention & Exhibition.
The Dell Kids’s Basis helps to make sure that no youngster is ever turned away from receiving the medical care supplied by Dell Kids’s Medical Middle. Roughly 70% of Dell Kids’s sufferers are under-insured or uninsured. Each greenback donated by way of TCF and TXTA will go on to Dell Kids’s Basis. This fundraising initiative will conclude the night of Tuesday, October seventeenth, the final day of MCE.
Dell Kids’s affords a free-standing kids’s hospital in Austin and over 90 specialty care areas throughout central Texas. Households have entry to greater than 270 pediatric specialists and care groups in 39 pediatric specialties.
Joe Harris honored by Southwest Movers
The Southwest Movers Affiliation just lately introduced Joe Harris because the 2023 Heritage Award recipient.
The award acknowledges a member who has made vital contributions to the shifting business and the affiliation.
“Joe Harris has been a longtime member of SMA for over 20 years and is a real chief and mentor. We’re proud to have the ability to honor him with this award and thank him for his years of excellence within the shifting business,” mentioned SMA Government Director John D. Esparza.
Harris is a third-generation mover. His grandfather began Harris Shifting & Storage Firm in 1939 within the downtown Houston space. After graduating from Texas A&M College in 1982, Harris started working full-time at Harris Shifting and Storage.
Amongst Harris’ was shifting former President George H. Bush 16 instances throughout his political profession.
SMA is a commerce affiliation representing the family items shifting business in Texas.
FedEx Freight guidelines at TMC SuperTech competitors
Doug Nickles, a FedEx Freight technician from East Moline, Illinois, was topped TMCSuperTech Grand Champion right here on the American Trucking Associations’ Expertise & Upkeep Council’s Nationwide Technicians Expertise Competitors.
“Successful TMCSuperTech is an amazing achievement and clearly demonstrates Doug’s dedication to service and professionalism,” mentioned TMC Government Director Robert Braswell. “As all the time, this competitors brings out the perfect in our business and Doug, and the remainder of his FedEx Freight teammates rose to the event, offering actual examples of the data and expertise wanted to maintain this business shifting.”
Nickles was joined by fellow FedEx Freight technician, 2019 TMCSuperTech Grand Champion Kelby Bentley, in profitable the staff title at this yr’s competitors.
FedEx Freight’s Wesley Salley, Spherical Rock, Texas, positioned second and Bentley positioned third giving FedEx Freight a clear sweep of the rostrum.
Elsewhere within the competitors, Timothy Rose, a scholar at Ferris State College, received the TMCFutureTech Nationwide Scholar Technician Expertise Competitors, with fellow Bulldog Maxwell Chatman ending second and Northwest Technical Institute’s Joshua Waldrep putting third.
Within the TMCSuperTech Mild and Medium Automobile monitor competitors, FedEx Freight’s Philip Barlow repeated as champion, with Zachary Nikorak and Alan Snyder, each of Cox Automotive Mobility, ending second and third respectively.
FedEx Freight’s Cory Westfall additionally repeated as champion of the TMCSuperTech Trailer Observe competitors, with Michael Kerfoot Jr., of Cox Automotive putting second for a second straight yr and Issac Perez of FedEx Freight putting third.
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