UPS’ Gragg Wilson Celebrated at MCE 2023 for NTDC Win
Gragg Wilson, grand champion at this summer time’s Nationwide Truck Driving Championships, touted the match’s deal with security. (Eugene Mulero/Transport Subjects)
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gragg Wilson, grand champion at this summer time’s Nationwide Truck Driving Championships, touted the match’s deal with security throughout American Trucking Associations’ 2023 Administration Convention & Exhibition.
Honored by ATA for his blue-ribbon efficiency on the “Tremendous Bowl of Security” summer time traditional, Wilson surpassed a subject of greater than 400 elite rivals in mid-August. The Nevada-based skilled driver with UPS pointed to NTDC’s myriad security advantages, and targeted particularly on the championships’ requisite of building a yearlong security report as a way to compete at state and nationwide competitions.
“Now we have to drive safely for a 12 months. And that’s on my thoughts on a regular basis,” Wilson instructed Transport Subjects on Oct. 17 on the MCE exhibition discussion board. “From the primary time you get to compete, it’s important to go protected for the entire 12 months.”
Gragg Wilson is the 2023 NTDC grand champion. (John Sommers II for Transport Subjects)
Wilson, who was honored all through MCE for his NTDC grand champion award, took time to replicate on the second. As he put it, “It’s good to have the ability to speak with individuals about principally what I’ve achieved my complete profession. It’s not like I’m doing something completely different.”
He continued, “It’s simply now that I’m acknowledged as any person who has achieved that for my complete profession and I have to, you realize, move that data on to others.”
On Aug. 19, Wilson earned the Bendix Grand Champion trophy whereas competing within the tank truck class on the 86th annual Nationwide Truck Driving Championships and Nationwide Step Van Driving Championships. The distinguished occasion was held in Columbus, Ohio. An expert driver for 37 years, he arrived on the nationwide scene in 2000 within the 5-axle class. In 2018, Wilson helped lead a Nevada staff to take dwelling the highest state class at NTDC.
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