Career Leadership Award

Career Leadership Award
Watch: Todd Cotier named 49th CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
Todd Cotier, the shop manager for Bison Transport USA, has spent his entire 43-year career with the same company, originally joining Hartt Transportation in 1982 before its acquisition by Bison in 2022.
March 14, 2025
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He's all Hartt: Todd Cotier named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
The average person changes jobs between 5 to 7 times during their working life, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But Todd Cotier, shop manager for Bison Transport USA, is anything but average.
March 9, 2025
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Watch: 2024 TMC CCJ Career Leadership Award Recipient Bonne Karim
Bonne Karim is the 2024 CCJ Career Leadership Award Recipient.
March 5, 2024
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First Class all the way: Bonne Karim named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
Bonne oversaw the training of maintenance professionals that serviced a truck count in the U.S. roughly the combined size of package rivals FedEx and UPS.
March 3, 2024
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Watch: Altec's Calhoun honored as 47th recipient of CCJ's Career Leadership Award
Kenneth Calhoun is a giant among the trucking industry but stands particularly tall in Arkansas where he has raised the profile for trade education across many industries.
February 27, 2023
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Pro and proud: Kenneth Calhoun named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
Just mention “trucking” in the state of Arkansas and it won’t take long before Kenneth Calhoun’s name comes up.
February 26, 2023
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From Beirut to the service bay: Kirk Altrichter named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
The Marine Corps took Kirk Altrichter all over the world, but he found his place in truck maintenance.
March 6, 2022
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TMC's Braswell named Career Leadership Award recipient
A self-described tinkerer, TMC Executive Director Robert Braswell is capable shade tree mechanic and an award-winning journalist.
April 14, 2021
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Southeastern Freight’s Lee Long named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
CCJ's Technology and Maintenance Career Leadership Award honors a career of dedication to professionalism and excellence in fleet maintenance. Read all about it
March 17, 2019
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Maverick Transportation’s Brent Hilton named CCJ Career Leadership Award recipient
Maverick Transportation's Brent Hilton takes home Commercial Carrier Journal's Career Leadership Award. Get to know Brent Hilton a little more here on CCJ!
March 5, 2018
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CCJ Career Leadership Award: ‘King of Corrosion’ Roy Gambrell finally gets his crown
Known to many as “The King of Corrosion” – “Rusty” to others and “Mr. Rust” to several more – Roy Gambrell etched his legacy in trucking on the corroding undercarriages of trucks and trailers nationwide.
February 26, 2017
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CCJ Career Leadership Award: Kevin Tomlinson was born to be in trucking
Kevin Tomlinson made his break into the trucking industry in 1979, right out of WyoTech’s six-month technician program.
February 29, 2016
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2014 Recipient, Jerry Thrift
Jerry Thrift   Maintenance Director of Ryder System Born in 1952, Thrift was the eldest son of a working-class family in Savannah, Ga. His father, Foster, was a boilermaker at the local paper mill, while his mother, Reba, was a homemaker until Jerry and his younger brother, Ricky, were older, when she reentered the workforce […]
November 16, 2015
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2013 Recipient, Marc Clark
Marc Clark It’s fair to say the odds were stacked against Marc Clark entering the work force in 1972 as a teenager. He was small and disabled. He’d spent his elementary school years attending special schools designed to help him compensate for his physical disabilities while identifying a “skill set” that would enable him to […]
August 11, 2015
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2012 Recipient, Joe Stianche
Joe Stianche   Vice President Of Maintenance, P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. Joe Stianche sits in his office at Royal Trucking in West Point, Miss., peering intently at a cluster of AAA batteries in his hand and talking with a technician. A satellite receiver on a trailer has failed, and no one is sure about the […]
December 19, 2012
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2011 Recipient, Carl P. Tapp
Carl P. Tapp, CDM/E Vice President Of Maintenance, P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. By his own admission, Carl Tapp, vice president of maintenance for P.A.M. Transportation Servies, Inc., is most comfortable working behind the scenes to move both the Tontitown, Ark.-based company and the truck­ing industry as a whole forward. But throughout Tapp’s long and varied […]
December 15, 2011
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2010 Recipient, Mike Jeffress
Mike Jeffress Vice President, Maintenance, Maverick Transport A native of Fayette, Mo., Mike Jeffress’s career in vehicle maintenance began at about age 11 when he first spent a summer as a go-fer for H & S Auto Repair, where his father Willard worked. Willard later became part owner in the business, which became H & […]
December 15, 2011
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2009 Recipient, Ronald Lee Szapacs
Ronald Lee Szapacs Maintenance Specialist, Air Products & Chemicals Ron Szapacs was the youngest of three children, following brother Joe and sister Jan. Born in 1945. Ron grew up in the small town of Slatington, Pa. As a child, he was involved in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, played football, ran track and was a […]
December 15, 2011
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