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.
2003	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.

Driver Hall of Fame Directory

Driver Hall of Fame Inductee Directory

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