FedEx Freight Driver Named Truck Driving Grand Champion
Logan edged out more than 400 other professional drivers to take the top prize at American Trucking Associations鈥 75th annual event, which took place last week in Minneapolis. The event is sponsored by Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC.
Logan, who won the flatbed competition, is married and has four children. He has been a professional truck driver for 25 years and has logged more than 2.1 million miles behind the wheel. He began competing in state truck driving championships in 2006, and this year he made his sixth trip to the nationals.
Logan said he doesn鈥檛 really have a 鈥渒iller instinct鈥 when he competes at the state and national levels.
鈥淚 love the competition,鈥 he said. 鈥淏ut I鈥檓 not one of the guys who鈥檚 out for blood.鈥
鈥淚 enjoy going down the road and operating a large piece of equipment,鈥 Logan told Transport Topics minutes after winning the big prize. 鈥淚t provides a great income to support my family and, as corny as it might seem, I鈥檓 moving a little piece of America every night.鈥
Logan said he began driving a truck at 14 years old on a farmer鈥檚 permit. He鈥檚 been driving for FedEx Freight for the past 21 years. Thirteen of those years he has been driving twin trailers five nights a week on a run from Topeka, to Des Moines, Iowa.
He follows 2011 winner Paul Phillips, a Con-way Freight driver from Coarsegold, Calif.听
Robert Sutton, ABF Freight System, from Boise, Idaho, was named the 2012 National Rookie of the Year after competing in the three-axle division.
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