ROADWAY'S WOODSON SELECTED FOR 1999 AMERICA'S ROAD TEAM
AKRON, Ohio - February 4, 1999 - Roadway Express driver Jimmy Woodson, of Memphis, Tennessee, was elected to serve as a member of the American Trucking Associations' 1999 America's Road Team. Being elected to the Road Team is one of the highest achievements a professional truck driver can receive. These drivers are considered the "Best of the Best."
For the next 18 months, Woodson will join 11 representatives from other trucking companies throughout the United States, participating in speaking engagements and media events on behalf of the industry. The Team's primary goals are to stress the importance of highway safety and to emphasize the role motor carriers play in the nation's economy. Each America's Road Team member will spend approximately one week each month traveling throughout the country making presentations to civic organizations, media representatives and drivers' education classes on how to safely share the road with commercial vehicles.
"Jimmy is to be commended for this impressive achievement. He joins an elite group of Roadway drivers who exemplify the professionalism and commitment to safety we have within our ranks," said Roadway President and Chief Operating Officer Jim Staley.
In his 34 years as a professional driver, Woodson has accumulated over three million miles of safe driving without a preventable accident. In 1988, he joined Roadway Express as an over-the-road driver at the Company's Memphis relay. Since then he has won numerous Company safety awards and is currently the coordinator of Roadway's District 7 Road Team, which promotes highway safety on a local basis. The Tennessee Trucking Association selected Woodson as State Road Team Captain for 1998 and, in 1997 named him the state's Driver of the Year. He has been a member of Roadway's Safety Management Council since co-founding the organization in 1996.
Woodson participated in the Tennessee Truck Driving Championships in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 and 1998. In 1998, he won first place in the "Straight Truck" class. He is also an instructor for Roadway Express' internal safe driving program.
For the past 11 years Woodson served as a reserve police officer for the Memphis Police Department and had once been a reserve police officer with the Collierville, Tenn. Police Department. He and his wife, Sandra, have two daughters and one grandson and reside in Collierville, Tenn.
