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trucking opportunities Visit www.overdrive.hotims.com and enter 186 FleetFocus HONORS Evans Delivery company driver Carroll Connor has won a 2010 Harley Davidson Dyna Super Glide in the fleet’s safest driver draw- ing. Connor has had no safety violations in his 16 years’ driving, the Schuylkill Haven, Pa.-based carrier said. . . . The Ohio Trucking Association’s May Drivers of the Month are John Baker, Terry Berger, Edward Butler, Dennis Day, Brent Hammons, Roy Libengood, Keith Long, Larry Rosengarten, Douglas Rossman, Rick Stumbo, Dan- iel Wagner and William Wil- liams. . . . Ruan Transport driver Doug Quick has been selected as the fleet’s 2009 Driver of the Year from a pool of more than 4,100 driv- ers. The 28-year driver has been with the Des Moines, Iowa, carrier for 14 years and operates out of its ter- minal in Tampa, Fla. . . .Sch- neider National has been named Kimberly-Clark’s 2009 Carrier of the Year for the second consecutive year. PAY Birmingham, Ala.-based flatbed carrier CRST- Malone is giving a bonus to owner-operators who lease to the fleet and reimbursing them up to $400 in fuel for attending the orientation in their trucks. . . . Koch Cos. has increased the base mileage rate for com- pany drivers with hazmat endorsement by 2 cents, 1 cent for drivers without it, and compensation for contractors with hazmat endorsements from 91 to 93 cents per mile. n SEPTEMBER 2010 OVERDRIVE 65 Fikes helps with Haiti restoration Fikes Truck Line is transporting lum- ber intended for Haiti’s relief effort free of charge, the Hope, Ark.-based carrier said. Owner-operators Harold Horn and Jimmy King started the project hauling two loads of lum- ber for Weyerhaeuser from Bruce, Miss., to Jacksonville, Fla.