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

Maxresdefault 67cf0ad241ff4

Career Leadership Award

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

Todd Cotier, Bison Transport USA

Sponsor Content

Check out the Comprehensive Guide On In-House Vs Outsourced Maintenance

Fullbay

June 11, 2025

Check out the Comprehensive Guide On In-House Vs Outsourced Maintenance

Career Leadership Award

Watch: 2024 TMC CCJ Career Leadership Award Recipient Bonne Karim

Bonne Karim is the 2024 CCJ Career Leadership Award Recipient.

March 5, 2024

Maxresdefault 65e71b5661ee6

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Maxresdefault 63fcd6447548d

Career Leadership Award

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

Kenneth Calhoun

Career Leadership Award

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

Kirk Altrichter

Career Leadership Award

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

Robert Braswell

Career Leadership Award

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

lee-long-shop-2019-02-10-13-36

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

LI2A7053-2017-02-26-14-48

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Career Leadership Award

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

Page 1 of 2

Adobe Stock 724507664

Repeal of truck emissions regs 'doesn’t help the trucking industry'

The GHG3 final rule had been derided as a de facto electric truck mandate.

If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas regulations set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines – which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.

EPA set to unravel 'disastrous' federal trucking emissions regulations

OneCompass Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase all the assets of Koleaseco Inc., a respected asset-based transportation provider with over 30 years of operational excellence.

Hyway Transportation parent acquiring Michigan fleet

Hub Group's acquisition of Marten Intermodal more than doubles the intermodal giant's temp-controlled business.

Hub Group acquires Marten's intermodal business

Schneider is the only carrier that operates a single-rail cross-border intermodal solution and has rapidly grown its intermodal market share of cross-border freight between the United States and Mexico, while setting industry benchmarks in speed, security and reliability on the CPKC rail network.

Schneider's business is booming at the border

Get all the info on the top 250 trucking companies in America

View, sort and download the trucking industry’s most comprehensive ranking of for-hire carriers in North America, based on a blend of metrics including fleet size, annual revenue and number of drivers.

In House or Outsourced Maintenance

The decision between bringing fleet maintenance in-house versus outsourcing is a pivotal one that could significantly affect your operations.