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Career Leadership Award

2008 Recipient, Peggy Fisher

Peggy J. Fisher Tire Stamp, Inc. Peggy Fisher originally was a “Jersey girl.” She was born and raised in Westfield, N.J. — the fifth child in Bertha and Alvin Fisher’s brood of five girls and one boy. As a tomboy, her favorite activities were catching frogs and salamanders, climbing trees and beating up neighborhood boys. […]

December 15, 2011

Career Leadership Award

2007 Recipient, Lew Flowers

Lew Flowers Manager of Vehicle Maintenance, U.S. Postal Service It’s said that the mail must go through, and Lew Flowers has become one of the folks that helps keep that adage true. But there’s more to his story. As a young man growing up in the Tidewater area of Virginia, Flowers had enormous respect for […]

December 15, 2011

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Complete List of Recipients

2011 Carl Tapp, P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. 2010 Mike Jeffress, Maverick Transportation 2009 Ronald Lee Szapacs, Air Products & Chemicals 2008 Peggy J. Fisher, Tire Stamp, Inc. 2007 Lew Flowers, United States Postal Service 2006 Thomas E. Newby, Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. 2005 C. Oren Summer, FleetNet America, Inc. 2004 David J. Foster, Jr., […]

December 15, 2011

Career Leadership Award

Career Leadership Award

By his own admission, Carl Tapp, vice president of maintenance for P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc., is most comfortable working behind the scenes to move both the Tontitown, Ark.-based company and the trucking industry as a whole forward.

February 9, 2011

Tapp’s father was fluent in about 15 different languages, and young Carl (left) and his brother, Richard – shown here in Germany in 1961 – grew up speaking German as their first language.

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Career Leadership Award: Mike Jeffress

Maverick’s mentor Positive role models stepped forward to help Mike Jeffress at crucial times in his life. That’s why he’s compelled to play the same role today. Jeffress left Nashville Auto-Diesel College with a clear plan. “I was going to come back home and change the way Dad and Fuzzy were doing business,” Jeffress recalls. […]

March 8, 2010

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