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100,000 lbs on it, it won’t stop on a dime and give you 10 cents change, I can guarantee you that.”
And finally, the winner of the Truck Hero of the Year Award was Connell Transport’s Frank Vieira.
Vieira was just about to deliver his load to a customer in downtown Toronto last year when he heard a loud crash behind his left shoulder. He saw that a passenger car had rear- ended a roll-off truck in the opposite lane and one of the truck’s overhang- ing steel beams had gone through the front windshield. He quickly pulled his truck to the side of the two-lane road and leapt out to assist.
When he approached the driver’s side of the car, Vieira noticed part of the broken steering column had pierced the driver’s throat.
“He was bleeding profusely,” Vie- ira recalls. “There was blood all over
him and in the car. He was in shock and it looked like he was losing consciousness.”
Vieira pried open the car door and applied pressure on the open wound to try and stop the flow of blood.
With his free hand, he dialed 911. All of a sudden, someone approached him from behind. Vie- ira turned around to see it was the driver of the roll-off truck; but once the man caught a glimpse of the graphic scene inside the car he passed out and hit the pavement.
“There was a lot happening at the same time,” he said.
Paramedics arrived soon after and took over the scene. They thanked Vieira for his efforts and asked him to move his truck. He got back in his truck and immedi- ately delivered his load. “I asked my customer if I could wash my hands.
TORONTO, ONTARIO
The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) took time at its annual exec- utive conference Nov. 8 to honor some of the best and brightest in the industry.
This year, the coveted Omnitracs/ OTA Service to Industry Award went to Mike Ham, who normally presents this same award to win- ners. He is the second OTA Allied Trades member to be honored with the award.
Ham started with Cancom Track- ing in 1995, which would eventually become Shaw Tracking and, now, Omnitracs. He has been a longtime OTA Allied Trades member and loyal supporter of the organization as a whole.
“I will wear this award for the rest of my life, as a badge of honor. Thank you,” Ham said upon accepting the award.
The Volvo Trucks-OTA Truck Driver of the Year was Lowell Thompson, a driver whose career spans more than half a century and includes an incredible 7.5 mil- lion accident-free miles.
Thompson has driven for Don Anderson Haulage throughout his 50-year career.
He admits there’s been some good fortune over the years, but reveals the secret to his impecca- ble safety record comes down to the simplest of virtues: “You just need to have patience in this job. When you’re going down the road with
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