The Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, board of directors, and members came together to celebrate the excellence of five individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the trucking industry in Atlantic Canada. The annual event took place at the Delta Beaus\u00e9jour in Moncton on December 7th.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the following recipients:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dispatcher of the Year: <\/strong>Gary Alcorn of Armour Transportation Systems<\/p>\n Sponsored by TMW Systems<\/p>\n Driver of the Year: <\/strong>Jean-Claude (JC) Robichaud of Atlantic Pacific Transport Ltd.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Volvo Trucks Canada<\/p>\n Good Samaritan: <\/strong>Glenn Nissen of Day & Ross Transportation Group<\/p>\n Sponsored by Marine Atlantic<\/p>\n Professional Driver Coach Award:<\/strong> Richard Burke, Atlantic Pacific Transport Ltd.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Trucking Human Resource Sector Council<\/p>\n Safety to Motor Transportation: <\/strong>Carl Fiander of Palmer Atlantic<\/p>\n Sponsored by Northbridge Insurance<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe are pleased to pay tribute to these men for their hard work and dedication to the industry\u201d stated APTA\u2019s Executive Director, Jean Marc Picard. \u201cEach year the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association recognizes outstanding individuals who work behind the wheel or behind the desks of trucking companies that make a difference in our industry. We are pleased again this year and very proud to present another exceptional group of award recipients\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cEach and every day people from our industry go above and beyond their typical responsibilities and make a difference. These efforts can range from a small act of kindness that brightens someone\u2019s day, to heroic acts that save lives. Too often these go unrecognized. Tonight we come together both as an association and as an industry, to proudly recognize the actions of five stellar examples of the many hard working men and women that make our industry so special. \u00a0These individuals have been nominated and recognized by their companies and by their peers, and that makes the recognition even more special. \u00a0Congratulations.\u201d said Dave Miller, Chair of the APTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, board of directors, and members came together to celebrate the excellence of five individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the trucking industry in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[219,259],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-apta","tag-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}