Driver Hall of Fame Inductee Directory
The NPTC Driver Hall of Fame inducts four drivers a year at NPTC’s Annual Education Management Conference & Exhibition. To qualify, a driver must have 3 million miles, 20 years or 50,000 hours of consecutive driving without a preventable accident.
Since the program begin in 1987, NPTC has honored 152 drivers from a broad spectrum of the nation’s top private truck fleets. Below is a last-name alphabetical listing of honorees since the inception of the program.
| Year Inducted |
Hall of Fame Driver | Company (at time of induction) |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Lester Ackerson | Safety-Kleen Corp. |
| 2019 | Dana Alitz | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to John Deere |
| 2011 | Larry C. Allen | ADM Trucking, Inc. |
| 2003 | Clarence Almond | J.F. Fick, Inc. |
| 2009 | Jose Amor | Army & Air Force Exchange Service |
| 1987 | James Anderson | Milliken & Company |
| 1990 | Prentiss Asbury | Royal Food Distributors |
| 2024 | Charles Babcock | Shaw Industries Group |
| 2021 | Michael Baity | Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. |
| 2007 | Carl M. Baker | Praxair, Inc. |
| 1999 | Thomas J. Baron | Praxair, Inc. |
| 2020 | Gerald Barth | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to John Deere |
| 2010 | Jerry Beasley | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. |
| 1997 | Lenord Bean, Sr. | Eaton Corp. |
| 2017 | Scott G. Beck | Deseret Transportation |
| 2020 | Nora Black | Orscheln Farm and Home, LLC |
| 1989 | Clarence Botkin | Chevron USA |
| 2015 | William Brawley | Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. |
| 1998 | George R. Brown | Best Feeds & Farm Supplies, Inc. |
| 1989 | Don Burke | Mobil Oil Corporation |
| 2004 | Dennis Ceshker | Wispak Transport Inc. |
| 1991 | John Chamberlain | Giant Food, Inc. |
| 2019 | Joe Choplin | Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. |
| 2000 | Jerry F. Cole | WestPoint Stevens |
| 2003 | Fonzy Comans | Praxair, Inc. |
| 2016 | Bradley Conn | CVS Transportation, LLC |
| 2023 | Claude Ricky Cook | Shaw Industries Group |
| 1993 | James Crosslin | Airco Gases, Inc. |
| 2002 | Virgil L. Deck | BOC |
| 2005 | Erwin Deelsnyder | BOC |
| 1988 | Junior DeJonge | Steelcase, Inc. |
| 1995 | Joseph Demby | Lance, Inc. |
| 2012 | Robert Dorn | CVS Transportation, LLC |
| 2005 | Tarry Dougherty | The Schwan Food Company |
| 1989 | Pat Doyle | Amway Corp. |
| 2013 | Louis Eaton | Ross Transportation Services, Inc. |
| 2015 | Stephen Edwards | CTS/Sherwin-Williams Company |
| 1987 | William Engle | Mobil Oil Corporation |
| 2008 | George Ertel | Batesville Casket Company |
| 1994 | David Evans | Giant Food, Inc. |
| 1992 | Eugene Evans | Giant Food, Inc. |
| 1992 | John Farrington | Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. |
| 2022 | Patrick Fay | Core-Mark International |
| 1989 | Ernest Fernandez | H.E. Butt Grocery |
| 1995 | James J. Fry | Warner-Lambert Company |
| 1999 | Samuel Gautier | The Lundy Packing Co. |
| 2011 | James Gentry | Shaw Transport, Inc. |
| 2004 | Ferdinand George | BOC |
| 2019 | Kenny George | Hy-Vee, Inc. |
| 1987 | James Gifford | Merico, Inc. |
| 2002 | Billy H. Gilbert | Milliken & Company |
| 2003 | Vernon E. Good | BOC |
| 1996 | Jack G. Goodman | Orval Kent Food Co., Inc. |
| 2007 | Ashton Gordon | LOGEX |
| 2016 | Michael Grabowski | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to Walgreen Oshkosh |
| 2012 | Corwin Grace | Kellogg Company |
| 2020 | Lenny Gray | Messer LLC |
| 1996 | Stanley Gubitz | DTF Trucking, Inc. |
| 2015 | Mark Hannon | Upstate Niagara Cooperative |
| 2018 | Rob Harmeyer | Batesville Logistics, Inc. |
| 2013 | Charles Hartley | Kraft Foods Global, Inc. |
| 2022 | Wayne Hayes | AutoZone, Inc. |
| 1998 | Walter Helmus | Praxair, Inc. |
| 2004 | Cathy Ann Henry | ConAgra Foods/Lamb-Weston, Inc. |
| 2014 | Roger J. Herron | Upstate Niagara Cooperative |
| 2021 | Michael Hetrick | KeHE Distributors, LLC |
| 2009 | Melvin Hobden | Lance, Inc. |
| 2001 | Roger A. Horling | Meijer, Inc. |
| 2009 | Oscar Hymons, Jr. | Gwaltney Transportation/Smithfield Foods |
| 1992 | Edwin Johnson | Frito-Lay, Inc. |
| 2019 | Larry Johnson | Messer LLC |
| 2009 | Mark R. Kaiser | Batesville Casket Company |
| 1990 | Alan Koole | Steelcase, Inc. |
| 2010 | Richard Kutz | Kraft Foods, Inc. |
| 1998 | Harold Likins | Farmland Industries, Inc. |
| 2017 | Larry Lloyd | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to Walgreen Oshkosh |
| 1992 | Clifford Ludwig | Farmland Industries, Inc. |
| 2023 | Ronald Mahar | Walgreen Oshkosh, assigned by CPC Logistics |
| 2011 | Bobby Mann, Sr. | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to Hospira |
| 1994 | George Marks, Jr. | Reynolds Aluminum Recycling Co. |
| 1991 | Donald Martin | Parker-Hannifin Corp. |
| 2000 | Donald McCoy | TFE, Inc. |
| 1996 | William McElroy | BOC |
| 1999 | Jack McGaha | TFE, Inc. |
| 2005 | Jimmie McGhee | LOGEX |
| 2001 | Charles McKenna | Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. |
| 1999 | Clark D. Miller | Mobil Oil Corporation |
| 1998 | Ron Miller | Senco Products, Inc. |
| 2004 | Edgar Mincy | Army and Air Force Exchange Service |
| 2013 | Steve Muncey | Batesville Logistics, Inc. |
| 1988 | Harry Myers | Fleur de Lait |
| 2023 | Christopher Nelson | Baxter Healthcare Corp. |
| 2022 | Billy Ray Nester | Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. |
| 2017 | George Newman | Frito-Lay, Inc. |
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Donald Nutt | Emerson Transportation Division |
| 1995 | Jon Oakley | Warner-Lambert Co. |
| 1990 | Eugene O’Brien | Union Carbide/Linde |
| 2007 | Higinio Ortiz | Army & Air Force Exchange Service |
| 2001 | John Palmer | BOC |
| 1988 | Robert Parsons | Mobil Oil Corporation |
| 1993 | George Pennington | Club Car, Inc. |
| 2011 | Lee Pennington | Batesville Logistics, Inc. |
| 2008 | James Perkins | Trimac Transportation, Inc. |
| 1997 | James Peters | Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of NY |
| 2024 | Kirk Phillips | Johnsonville Trucking LLC |
| 2012 | Henry Pollitz | Frito-Lay, Inc. |
| 2014 | Robert Purcell | CTS/Sherwin-Williams Company |
| 2022 | Jeffery Putskey | Brakebush Transportation, Inc. |
| 2000 | John E. Ragar | Farmland Industries, Inc. |
| 2002 | Vernon Rankens | Donnelly Corporation |
| 2006 | Gene E. Reed | TFE Logistics, assigned to DTF Trucking |
| 2016 | Wildon Renn | CTS/Sherwin-Williams Company |
| 2018 | Frank Rice | Shaw Industries Group, Inc. |
| 2012 | Steve Royse | Kraft Foods, Inc. |
| 2024 | Carl Russell | New South Express, Inc. |
| 2014 | Raymond Sanderson | Kraft Foods Group, Inc. |
| 1997 | Milton Sandlin | Gates Rubber |
| 2024 | Stuart Shuck | John Deere, assigned by CPC Logistics |
| 2000 | James Skinner | Steelcase, Inc. |
| 1997 | James Settle | Milliken & Company |
| 1996 | Henry Shefler | Praxair, Inc. |
| 1993 | Olin C. Sims | WestPoint Pepperell, Inc. |
| 2010 | Issac Simmons | CVS Transportation LLC |
| 1994 | Loren Snider | Buttrey Food & Drug Co. |
| 1987 | Lee Snyder | Chevron USA |
| 2010 | David Solomon | Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. |
| 2023 | Billy Steele | Unifi Manufacturing |
| 2016 | Arthur Stephens | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to Avery Dennison |
| 1988 | Winifred Stocks | Austin Powder Co. |
| 2008 | Tommy Stoddard | Vanguard Services, assigned to Bridgestone Firestone |
| 2021 | Augustin Tamayo | Shaw Transport, Inc. |
| 2014 | Nathan Tandal | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire |
| 2006 | John Tedford, Sr. | BOC |
| 1991 | William Temple | Frito-Lay, Inc. |
| 1995 | Douglas Thompson | Buttrey Food & Drug Co. |
| 2018 | Larry Thorp | Orscheln Farm & Home, LLC |
| 2017 | John Tiemann | Kellogg Company |
| 2006 | James Tolly | NCI Building Systems, LP |
| 2020 | Ronald Tourte | Hy-Vee Inc./Perishable Distributors of IA |
| 2015 | Leon Turner | Batesville Logistics, Inc. |
| 2018 | Bradley Wacks | Army and Air Force Exchange Service |
| 2013 | Kenneth Wasiewicz | CPC Logistics Inc., assigned to Benjamin Moore |
| 2001 | Frank Watson | Giant Food, Inc. |
| 2021 | Luther Weaver | Mohawk Carpet Transportation |
| 2002 | Kenneth Whaley | WestPoint Stevens Inc. |
| 1990 | Dale Wilson | Reynolds Aluminum Recycling Co. |
| 1993 | Marshall Wolfe | Merico, Inc. |
| 2007 | Ernest Woodruff | Smithfield Transportation Co. |
| 1991 | William Woolard | Tomkins Industries |
| 2006 | Robert Wrenn | Gwaltney Transportation/Smithfield Foods |
| 2008 | Kenneth Wright | NCI Building Systems, Inc. |
| 2005 | Randy Yeager | MI Transportation, Inc. |
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