Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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20 | Overdrive | June 2016 Logbook Untitled-25 1 4/15/16 12:33 PM Top Rookie nominations open till June 24 A check for $10,000 and a package of prizes will be awarded to one skillful professional truck driver when Truck- ing's Top Rookie is named in August. The award recognizes the best professional truck driver who has been on the job for less than a year. The Trucking's Top Rookie contest is a partnership between Overdrive sister publication Truckers News, the Truck- load Carriers Association, Commer- cial Vehicle Training Association, Rand McNally, Pilot Flying J, Progressive Commercial Insurance, National Association of Publicly Funded Driving Schools, American Trucking Associations and the Red Eye Radio Network. Nominations may be made online by 5 p.m. CT June 24 at truckload.org/rookie. A panel of seven judges will review each nominee and select 10 finalists. The winner will be announced Aug. 26 at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. – Overdrive staff Prizes awarded to the winner of Trucking's Top Rookie include $10,000 in cash. A WORKPLACE SHOOTING May 4 at a Knight Transportation terminal in Katy, Texas, left two people dead and two injured. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said Marion Guy Williams, 65, was fired that morning, then came back to the terminal and shot and killed his former supervisor, Mike Dawid, then shot and killed himself. Two employees for Phoenix-based Knight were injured by flying debris. JASON FLYNN, a Tennessee-licensed truck driver, was placed out-of-service after police found open beer cans and drugs in his truck following a crash. Flynn made an illegal turn in north Georgia on March 17, which caused a crash with a passenger vehicle. The vehicle became wedged underneath Flynn's trailer, hospitalizing the driver.