Finest Fleets to Drive For Contest Nominations Open – Fleet Administration
Two general winners shall be acknowledged on the TCA Annual Conference in Kissimmee, Florida. (Pictured:
Jim Peeples, president and COO at Challenger Motor Freight, receiving the large-carrier award earlier this yr.)
File Photograph: Vesna Brajkovic
For the final 14 years, the Truckload Carriers Affiliation and CarriersEdge have acknowledged prime performing carriers via an annual Finest Fleets to Drive For contest. This system has returned for its fifteenth iteration {and professional} truck drivers and unbiased contractors can now formally nominate the corporate they work for as a Finest Fleet to Drive For.
Nominations shall be open till Oct. 31.
Fleets working 10 or extra tractor-trailers within the U.S. or Canada are eligible for nomination. A TCA membership will not be required to take part.
By nominating a fleet, an expert truck driver is recognizing its firm’s tradition, applications, and dealing atmosphere. If the provider chooses to take part, Senior Administration will participate in a questionnaire and interview, whereas a collection of drivers will take part in surveys, all of which dig deeper into the corporate’s insurance policies and practices.
On the finish of the analysis course of, the highest 20 highest scoring fleets shall be recognized as Finest Fleets to Drive For and introduced on the finish of January 2023. From this pool, firms shall be divided into “small” and “massive” provider classes. Two general winners shall be then acknowledged alongside fleets who shall be coming into this system’s Corridor of Fame on the TCA Annual Conference, March 4-7, 2023, in Kissimmee, Florida.
“This system evolves each season to match what is going on within the trade,” mentioned Jane Jazrawy, CEO of CarriersEdge in a press launch. “Over the previous two years, we watched carriers work arduous to satisfy the unprecedented challenges that arose throughout COVID. Now, we’re excited to see what new concepts fleets have provide you with to transition from the pandemic and meet the challenges of a fluctuating financial system.”
TCA President Jim Ward mentioned he seems to be ahead to seeing what “new requirements carriers have applied since final yr’s program to raised working circumstances for skilled drivers, and the trade as an entire.”
