Power to Drive Program
Receives Program of the Year Award for National Transportation
Week
June 8, 2005
Arrow Truck Sales, KRTS Transportation Specialists,
and TST Truckload Express were
presented with the Program of the Year Award this morning at the 36th annual
National Transportation Week (Ontario) Awards Breakfast in
Toronto.
The Program of the Year Award is
presented annually during national Transportation Week to a new program,
product, service or management philosophy recently introduced that has been
successful in increasing sales, profit, reducing cost, or that has improved the
image of transportation.
The Power to Drive Program is a collaborative effort
between Arrow Truck Sales, KRTS Transportation Specialists, and TST Truckload
Express. This highly successful program was launched in 2004 in order to help
attract quality people to become owner-operators by supplying training,
financing and a contract all in one deal.
The results and the program speak for themselves. So
far TST Truckload has hired on 16 new owner-operators, representing
approximately ½ of their annual number of new contracts. KRTS
Transportation Specialists has provided all of the training for the new entrants
and Arrow Truck Sales has supplied the new candidates with late model reliable
equipment. These new candidates receive ongoing coaching by a TST coach once
they are in the program and TST pays the participants $2000 during this
mentorship training. At the end of the training the participant receives a
$1000 signing bonus and if the new owner-operator stays on board with TST for
one year the tuition of the Power to Drive Program is reimbursed in
full.
What is National Transportation Week? Each
year, during the first week of June, Canadians observe National
Transportation Week in recognition of the hundreds of thousands of men and women
who keep Canada moving safely, efficiently and reliably. National
Transportation Week runs June 1-10, 2005
The Ontario NTW committee is made up
of representatives from CAA Ontario, GO Transit, Ontario Motor Coach
Association, Ontario School Bus Association, Ontario Trucking Association and
Toronto Transit Commission. For thirty-six years this committee has been
promoting the importance of transportation to the Ontario
economy.
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