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Marten Transport Recognizes Million-Mile Drivers

Marten Transport recently inducted 38 new One Million-Mile drivers and 45 Two Million-Mile drivers into its Hall of Fame

by Staff
June 10, 2004
2 min to read


Marten Transport recently inducted 38 new One Million-Mile drivers and 45 Two Million-Mile drivers into its Hall of Fame.

These drivers have all achieved their million or more accident-free miles throughout their careers at Marten Transport Ltd. Although the company has had the One Million-Mile Club for the past seven years, this was the first year for the Two Million-Mile Club.
"Marten Transport firmly stands behind drivers and owner-operators and takes every opportunity to recognize the outstanding efforts and hard work they put forth," said Randy Marten, president and CEO.
The following drivers were honored for achieving one million accident-free miles while driving for Marten: Robert Arroyo Jr., Roy Bressler, Charlie Burgess, Everett Carroll, Leona Dittman, David Guthmiller, Stephen Harris, Rick Hendon, Barry Hicks, Vern Jahsman, Edgar Jaillet, Larry Jernigan, Ann Kennedy, Ashley Kennedy, Robert Lambeth, Dennis Loon, Catherine Loucks, Jerry Lund, Clayton McClary, Laura Jean Michaels, Ricardo Miranda, Guy Noland, Cara Peters, Roosevelt Reese, Stephen Richardson, Tim Ridley, William Ring, Jerry Roberson, Kenny Roberts, Larry Rohrbacher, Jeffrey Schmidt, Steven Seaman, David Shelton, John Sloboda Jr., James Taylor, Disty Williams, Joseph Womack and David Zecha.
Along with the million-mile drivers, the company also inducted its first ever group of two million-mile drivers. The following drivers were honored for achieving two million accident-free miles while driving for Marten: Wesley Baggett, Rich Bauer, Charles Brinkley, Robert Clemes, Charles Day, Donald Elkins, Bernie Freeman, Eldred Funk, Karen Goucher, Richard Goucher, Dennis Herzog, Tom Hodge, Robert ‘Glenn’ Howard, Wayne Huebner, Hanley Johnson, Philip Johnson, Billy Kelley, William LaBonne, Wayne Lamberty, Robert Larson, Rodney Leighton, Mark Lowthorp, Ronald ‘Pete’ Maringer, Robert McBride, Robert McKay, Daniel Meeker, Tim Melody, Neil Meyer, Tom Minner, Barry Nauman, Mark Nowak, Tilford Qualley, Larry Ring, Gerald Rudduck, William Schumacher, Stuart Seabrooke, Tim Setterlund, Catherine Sherman, Ronald Sovick, Henry Stephens, Raymond Toot, Lesley Urness, Michael Vafaie, John ‘Jack’ Vargo and Robert Walz.
Marten Transport began honoring such individuals back in 1997. Since then, the company has inducted more than 300 drivers into the Marten Million-Mile Club with some of the drivers having achieved the million-mile marker more than once in their careers.
To learn more about a career with Marten, call (800) 395-3331 or visit www.marten.com .

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