Provider Chief, C.A.T. Win Finest General Fleet Award – Fleet Administration

Throughout Truckload 2023 in Orlando, two for-hire carriers have been named total winners of the 2023 Finest Fleets to Drive For.

The Truckload Carriers Affiliation (TCA) and CarriersEdge offered the Finest General Fleet award within the small service class to Chief Carriers of Grand Island, Nebraska, and the Finest General Fleet award within the giant service class to C.A.T. Inc. of Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada. 

Now in its fifteenth 12 months, Finest Fleets to Drive For, is an annual survey and contest that acknowledges the North American for-hire trucking corporations that present the very best office expertise for his or her drivers. To be thought of, fleets should be nominated by an organization driver or impartial contractor working with them, after which they’re evaluated throughout a broad vary of classes reflecting present finest practices in human assets.

The very best scoring fleets are recognized as Finest Fleets to Drive For after which grouped in line with dimension. The very best-scoring fleet in every class is known as the general winner.

Each of this 12 months’s total winners signify firsts for this system. C.A.T is the primary fleet in over a decade to winthe total award in its first 12 months as a Finest Fleet.

“Most individuals want a number of years to progress from Finalist to High 20 to General Winner,” stated Jane Jazrawy, CarriersEdge CEO. “For C.A.T. to make it not simply into the High 20, however to the highest of the checklist, is a exceptional achievement. They’ve put an enormous effort into their packages this previous 12 months, and that effort was evident all through the analysis course of.”

Chief Carriers represents a primary of a distinct variety. Normal Supervisor Andrew Winkler is the primary particular person to win the general award at two totally different corporations, having beforehand labored with Corridor-of-Famer Grand Island Specific.

“Seeing Chief Carriers progress previously few years, it’s not stunning that they received the general award,” Jazrawy famous. “They clearly have a plan for creating driver assist packages, and their scores throughout all classes present that the plan is working.”

TCA President Jim Ward agrees.

“Yr after 12 months, the general winners are actually altering the sport,” he stated. “It’s crucial that fleets set up driver-centric choices which magnetize and retain a talented workforce whereas establishing packages that enhance the work-life stability for his or her workers. Chief Carriers, Inc. and C.A.T. Inc. have carried out simply that and their outcomes present that these efforts repay.”

The Finest Fleets to Drive For survey and contest is open to any for-hire fleet working 10 or extra vans, no matter TCA membership standing. Nominated fleets are evaluated in areas reminiscent of driver compensation, pension and advantages, skilled growth, driver and neighborhood assist, and security report.

The competition accepts nominations from Labor Day to Halloween every year and divulges its High 20 Finest Fleets to Drive For winners every January. The very best-scoring fleet in every class is known as an General Winner throughout TCA’s Annual Conference.