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TCA names country’s top owner-operator, company driver

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Click here to see all of CCJ’s coverage of TCA’s Annual Convention.

The Truckload Carriers Association named has named Gary Teel, a driver for Weinrich Truck Line, as its 2014 Company Driver of the Year and Thomas Miller, a contractor for Prime Inc., its 2014 Owner-Operator of the Year.

The announcement came March 10 at TCA’s Annual Convention, being held this week in Orlando. Each driver won $25,000 cash from sponsors Love’s and Cummins.

The contests were co-produced by TCA and CCJ sister publications Overdrive and Truckers News.

Click here to read more on Miller from Overdrive.

And click here to read more on Teel, from Truckers News.

Miller has more than 2 million consecutive safe miles and was honored partly for an initiative he set up with his daughter to raise money for a boy fighting cancer in his hometown. He also quit smoking in 2014 and lost nearly 30 pounds.