As a premier Canadian trucking company, Challenger is proud to celebrate the skill and expertise of our quality drivers. We invest time and resources into hiring, training and continually assessing our professional drivers. When the trucks hit the road, it’s our drivers’ abilities and quick thinking that ensure safety on our roadways. That’s why we annually recognize them in their skills and dedication to safety in their truck driving jobs. Challenger is pleased to present 590 drivers with the 2016 Safe Driving Award. Each driver on this list receives a certificate and their choice of prize to acknowledge their years of driving with Challenger without avoidable accidents.
Challenger’s Chairman and CEO, Dan Einwechter has this to say:
We are thrilled to recognize this year’s recipients of our Safe Driving Awards.
The recipients of this award have gone above and beyond in acknowledging and exercising the safety standards set out by our government, our industry and us in the Challenger Group. They join an elite group of professional drivers who help to strengthen the excellent reputation that Challenger holds, not only in the transportation industry, but also with the general motoring public and we take great pride in recognizing our professional drivers.
The Safe Driving Award program aims to recognize and reward you with a gift of your choice to mark our gratitude for the dedication to safety and professionalism that you display every day on the road. We can never forget those who contribute to our achievements. To all of those individuals, be they family, friends or coworkers, we thank you for encouraging our drivers in their valiant endeavours of committing to a professional and safe driving career.
On behalf of everyone at Challenger, thank you for your superb public representation, steadfast commitment to safety, and Going the Distance every day.
Sincerely,
Dan Einwechter
Furthermore, Lynda Crickmore (Vice President of Special Commodities) and Steve Newton (Director of Safety) also express their thanks in this message:
Congratulations to all of this year’s Safety Award recipients! It is with great pride that we are announcing that 590 of our professional drivers achieved an annual safety milestone this year.
Achieving these milestones is a great accomplishment that you should be very proud of. Navigating through today’s congested traffic and customer yards without a preventable collision shows true professionalism. Putting it into perspective, accumulatively the 590 drivers drove for 3355 years without a preventable collision.
Considering the average driver will drive 100,000 miles per year, that equates to 335,500,000 miles traveled without a collision. This is equivalent to going to the moon and back 702 times.
Thank you to all the recipients for their professionalism behind the wheel; you make our roads safer.
Sincerely,
Lynda and Steve
Celebrating a special milestone this year, Bob Hagen has completed 30 years of safe driving with Challenger. Pictured here, Dan (Chairman and CEO at Challenger) presented Bob with his certificate of accomplishment. Bob will also choose a reward from our Safe Driving Program.
Challenger Motor Freight continues to excel in the transportation industry through our initiatives to ensure that we remain a top company for our AZ drivers to not only work for, but to work with. Our extensive fleet of trucks are respected on the road because of the skill and dedication to safety that our drivers exhibit when they get behind the wheel.
Congratulations to all the Safe Driving Award recipients! Continue to safely Go the Distance!
Karen Cardillo
Challenger