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Deadline: HDT Emerging Leader 2019 Nominations
Heavy Duty Trucking magazine's 2019 HDT Emerging Leaders awards nomination process is almost over, so get your nominations in soon.

Heavy Duty Trucking magazine's 2019 HDT Emerging Leaders awards nomination process is almost over, so get your nominations in soon.
Heavy Duty Trucking magazine's 2019 Emerging Leaders awards nomination process is almost over, so get your nominations in soon. The award is bestowed upon a group of young trucking industry leaders working at fleet companies and already making a difference in their fields.
Young professionals who are influential, innovative, and successful, who can point to outstanding accomplishments and leadership qualities and who have a passion for the trucking industry, will be featured in HDT's December issue.
Emerging leaders must be under 40 years of age and work for a for-hire, private, government or vocational fleet. The award nomination is open to those employed in any aspect of a fleet’s business at all levels, whether management, maintenance, sales, marketing, safety, IT, training or elsewhere.
Whether nominees are in the top management position of a company, a shop foreman, or the IT person who led a key data transition, as long as they are making a difference in the trucking industry, they are eligible for nomination.
Leaders honored as an HDT Emerging Leader will be featured in an article in our December print magazine issue. The nominee must be under 40 years old as of Jan. 31, 2019. Self-nominations are also being accepted.
The nomination deadline is Oct. 4, 2019. To nominate an Emerging Leader, fill out the online nomination form here.
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