{"id":5901,"date":"2018-10-18T05:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2018-10-25T00:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:48:40","slug":"ata-announces-finalists-for-2019-20-america%e2%80%99s-road-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/ata-announces-finalists-for-2019-20-america%e2%80%99s-road-team\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA Announces Finalists for 2019-20 America\u2019s Road Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Trucking Associations released the list of 34 professional truck drivers chosen as finalists for the 2019-20 term of America\u2019s Road Team on Oct. The finalists hail from 22 states, haul a diverse assortment of products and materials and include shorthaul and over-the-road drivers operating in the lower 48 states. \u201cATA believes the men and women who work safely day after day to deliver our goods \u2014 truck drivers \u2014 are the best representatives of the trucking industry, and we are inspired by the finalists for the upcoming class of America\u2019s Road Team,\u201d President Chris Spear said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the evaluation process, we read and heard stories from truck drivers about pride, courage and selflessness \u2014 the kinds of stories we are excited to share with the public, media and elected officials.\u201d America\u2019s Road Team was created in 1986 to represent the industry and is sponsored by Volvo Trucks. \u201cThe trucking industry has millions of truck drivers who work tirelessly to safely deliver goods to our communities, so it is a major responsibility to represent that workforce as an America\u2019s Road Team captain,\u201d ATA Chief Operating Officer Elisabeth Barna said. \u201cThese finalists, and all the nominees, are valuable representatives for our industry, and we are looking forward to meeting them in January and welcoming a new team to join the proud legacy of being an America\u2019s Road Team captain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team will be chosen by industry officials and trucking news media representatives Jan. Finalists will be judged on knowledge of trucking, dedication to safety, ability to communicate the industry\u2019s messages and overall safe driving record. To be nominated, drivers must be employed or leased to an ATA member company.<\/p>\n<p>Call or\u00a0<a href=\"m.me\/RightNowLoads?ref=Code%20Email\" target=\"_blank\">Click<\/a> to get 50% OFF for the First Month<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Rightnowloads.com\">Rightnowloads.com<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightnowloads.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"Rightnowloads.com\"><\/a>24\/7 Dispatching Service 888-852-4238<br \/>\n247support@rightnowloads.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Trucking Associations released the list of 34 professional truck drivers chosen as finalists for the 2019-20 term of America\u2019s Road Team on Oct. The finalists hail from 22 states, haul a diverse assortment of products and materials and include shorthaul and over-the-road drivers operating in the lower 48 states. \u201cATA believes the men and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}