Trucking's Frontline Heroes News Updates

Business, Logistics

Nashville’s M&W Logistics Wins 2024 Frontline Heroes Award

M&W Logistics Group has long believed in supporting its local Nashville community, so when the call came for help building a shelter for at-risk women, it stepped up.

October 13, 2024
Business, Equipment, Safety, Logistics

Three Alabama Trucking Firms Deliver Aid to Texas Farmers

Three Alabama trucking companies responded to a call from agriculture commissioners in that state and Texas to deliver loads of hay to ranchers whose livestock were facing starvation.

October 13, 2024
Business, Safety

Hero James Sadler: Providing Aid After Catastrophic Storms

When Floridians suffer through severe hurricanes that bring devastation to local communities, James Sadler sets out to ensure supplies and food are available after storms make landfall.

October 14, 2023
Business, Safety

Hero Anthony Shipp: Coordinating Aid to Maui Wildfire Victims

When wildfires consumed the Hawaiian island of Maui in August, Anthony Shipp’s reaction was immediate, and powerful.

October 13, 2023
Business, Safety

Videos - Trucking's Frontline Heroes

Watch video interviews with five of Trucking’s Frontline Heroes; hear them describe in their own words why it was important for them to risk their own health concerns to keep essential goods moving.

September 12, 2020

Honoring Trucking’s Essential Workers

Professional truck drivers and other workers in the transportation industry have always performed indispensable jobs, but many have gone above and beyond the call of duty during the coronavirus pandemic. This special commemorative microsite, Trucking’s Frontline Heroes, captures the stories of these workers who have made personal sacrifices to help fuel the nation’s response to COVID-19.

September 12, 2020

Kevin Cooper, Centerline Drivers: Taking Matters Into His Own Hands

Truck driver Kevin Cooper and his wife, Kimberly, took matters into their own hands and began making protective face masks and giving them to people for free at the beginning of the pandemic.

September 12, 2020

James Rogers, Spartan Direct: 'Needed to Serve Something Bigger Than Me'

On the Fourth of July weekend, when neighbors were figuring out how to stage their own fireworks displays and people cautiously gathered for backyard barbecues, truck driver James Rogers returned home for the first time in three months.

September 12, 2020

Susan Dawson, Brenny Specialized: Won't Be Ruled by Fear

Brenny Specialized driver Susan Dawson goes about her work with a sense of purpose — and she won't be ruled by fear.

September 12, 2020

Cesar Quintana Moreno, Hub Group: Filling Needs to Deliver, to Train

Cesar Quintana Moreno, a professional truck driver with Hub Group, might not think of himself as a hero, but that’s increasingly how many people view him and other truckers who have delivered essential goods during the coronavirus pandemic.

September 12, 2020