Overnite Drivers Dominate West Virginia Championships
26 May 2005 - 6:22AM
PR Newswire (US)
Overnite Drivers Dominate West Virginia Championships CHARLESTON,
W.Va., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Capturing two championship titles,
the team trophy and numerous other awards, Overnite Transportation
Company drivers dominated the competition at the West Virginia
State Truck Driving Championships held here this weekend. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050408/OVNTLOGO ) Winning
first-place trophies and tickets to the Nationals later this summer
were Charleston, W.Va., drivers Clarence Jenkins and David Maynard.
Jenkins, who won a National Championship in 1998, took the winner's
trophy in the tanker division. An Overnite veteran for nearly 30
years and a member of the company's 1998 All-Star Road Team,
Jenkins also won the competition's pre- trip award for identifying
hidden safety defects on a truck. Maynard won his first state
championship in the four-axle class. Together, they led the
Overnite crew to win the team trophy, an award presented to the
group with the highest average score of all those competing in the
championships. As state titleholders, Jenkins and Maynard will join
10 other Overnite drivers who have won state championships to date
when they represent the company at the National Truck Driving
Championships in Tampa, Fla., in August. Also delivering strong
showings for the company were four other Charleston drivers. Rick
Gragg took home a second-place award for his performance in the
straight truck class, while Roger Lanham, Ralph Gragg and Craig
Warner, each placed third, respectively, in the three-axle, sleeper
truck and the five-axle class competitions. Overnite Parkersburg,
W.Va., City Driver Roger Nicholson took home the Rookie of the Year
award for earning the best score among all first-time competitors.
At the championships, the West Virginia State Police named nine
Overniters to its list of those receiving Outstanding Driver
Awards. All Charleston drivers, they are Robert Bryant, Rutherford
Burcham, Ralph Gragg, Craig Warner, Allen Jones, Charles Maynard,
Chris Morris, Randy Pullen and Ira Queen. Meanwhile, Jenkins,
Lanham, Nicholson and fellow Charleston driver Les Eagle, were
named by the state as a 2004 Driver of the Month. Completing a
successful weekend, the Great West Casualty Company honored
Overnite with a safety award for its outstanding record for
carriers that traveled 1.5 to 2 million local and intercity miles
in 2004. On May 16, UPS (NYSE:UPS) announced a definitive agreement
to acquire Overnite Corporation for $1.25 billion. Overnite
Transportation Company, which provides a complete menu of regional,
interregional and long-haul services, is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Overnite Corporation (NASDAQ:OVNT), which also owns Motor Cargo
Industries. Together, they form one of the largest
less-than-truckload carriers in the United States with more than
200 service centers and a fleet of over 6,000 tractors and more
than 22,000 trailers, covering all 50 states and providing
customers with direct access to more than 45,000 cities in the
United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands
and Mexico. More information is available on the company's Web
site, http://www.overnite.com/.
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Company CONTACT: Laurie Beasley, Editor, Corporate Communications
of Overnite Transportation Company, +1-804-291-5889 Web site:
http://www.overnite.com/
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