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ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, American Trucking Associations recognized the winners of several of the industry's top honors as part of the association's Leadership and Awards Luncheon at its annual Management Conference & Exhibition.

"This industry provides constant examples of hard work and professionalism exhibited by its people on a daily basis," said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. "Today, we take a moment to honor groups of people and companies that have gone above and beyond in the pursuit of excellence to earn the title of champion and promote safety throughout our vital industry."

Among those honored here today were:

• Roland Bolduc, a professional driver with FedEx Express from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and the 2017 National Truck Driving Championships Bendix Grand Champion;
• Mark McLean, a FedEx Freight technician from Montgomery, New York, who won his third Grand Champion title at the TMC SuperTech competition;
• ATA National Truck Driver of the Year Gary Plant, a professional driver with Walmart Transportation in Loveland, Colorado. Plant has more than 41 years of professional driving and has accumulated 4.4 million accident-free miles.

In addition, ATA also honored three fleets with the ATA's President's Award:

• Fortune Transportation is a for-hire, general commodities truckload fleet in Windom, Minnesota, for fleets under 25 million miles;
• A. Duie Pyle, West Chester, Pennsylvania, for fleets between 25 million and 100 million miles and;
• Ruan Transportation headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, for fleets with more than 100 million miles.

The ATA President's Award goes to fleets who demonstrate innovative approaches to safety and go above and beyond to keep America's highways safe.

ATA will be announcing the winners of National Safety Director of the Year and National Safety Professional Award of Excellence at the Safety, Security & Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition, November 14-16 in Nashville, Tennessee.

In addition, ATA announced the winners of its first annual 5K Fun Run/Walk, sponsored by Velociti and Rolling Strong. In the men's category, the winners were: Eric Parker, Mirza Kazarcin and Kevin Forbes. And in the women's category, the winners were: Anna Spear, Yulia Lama and Rachel Cooper. The top finishing America's Road Team Captain was Dion Saiz, FedEx Freight.

American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of 50 affiliated state trucking associations and industry-related conferences and councils, ATA is the voice of the industry America depends on most to move our nation's freight. Follow ATA on Twitter or on Facebook. Trucking Moves America Forward 

SOURCE American Trucking Associations