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Motor Carrier Review Board

Volume XX, No. 13 “Committed to Safety, Courtesy, and Professionalism” September 2010

This issue of “Behind the Wheel” is sponsored by:

Maine Motor Transport Association

Team Champions Clifford W. Perham, Inc. (Shaw’s Supermarkets)

Pre-Trip Inspection

Richard Hill

Walmart Transportation

Grand Champion Hayri Berberoglu

Sysco of No. New England

Rookie of the Year

James Coburn

Cumberland Farms

Knowledge Test Award Winner

James Shunk Nestle Waters NA/ Poland Spring

Congratulations to the 2010 Maine State Champions

from the


Three Axle Van Champion

Glendon Buzzel

Hannaford Trucking

Four Axle Van Champion

Denis Litalien

Clifford W. Perham / Shaw’s

Five Axle Van Champion

Ron Round

Pottle’s Transportation

Five Axle Flatbed Champion

Rob Balfour

Balfour Motor Express

Five Axle Tank Champion

Harry Hamlin

Irving Oil

Five Axle Sleeper Champion

Richard Hill


Twin Trailers Champion

Hayri Berberoglu


Grand Champion

Hayri Berberoglu


Team Champion Clifford W. Perham / Shaw’s

Rookie of the Year

James Coburn

Cumberland Farms

Knowledge Test Award Winner

James Shunk

Nestle Waters NA/ Poland Spring

Pre-Trip Inspection Winner

Richard Hill


Step Van Champion

Brad Bartlett, Jr.

FedEx Ground

Straight Truck Champion

Dennis Rickett

Clifford W. Perham / Shaw’s


142 Whitten Road, Augusta, ME 04332-0857

Phone: (207)623-4128


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Twin Trailers 406 Hayri Berberoglu (*1) Sysco of Northern NE

342 John Ellingwood FedEx Freight

321 Greg Deterding UPS Freight Don Fortin Hannaford Trucking Co.

Ray Rogers FedEx Freight Matt Richardson FedEx Ground

Straight Truck 319 Dennis Rickett Clifford W. Perham/Shaw’s (*5)

298 Edward Abbott Downeast Energy 289 Joseph Buckley Dennis K. Burke, Inc.

David Roberts Con-Way Freight

George George Dysart’s Transportation

John Ayer Dysart’s Transportation

Three Axle Van 362 Glendon Buzzell Hannaford Trucking Co.

340 William G. Butland Sysco of Northern NE 328 Andy Dupont Walmart Transportation

John Dionne Sysco of Northern NE

Ray Peavey FedEx Freight Adrien Doyon Sysco of Northern NE

Mike Brown Con-Way Freight

Four Axle Van 293 Denis Litalien Clifford W. Perham/Shaw’s (*5)

268 Bob Danforth Walmart Transportation

262 Larry Menter YRC

Vincent Cote Hannaford Trucking Co. Eric Schroeder Sysco of Northern NE

Paul Paradis Con-Way Freight

Michael Swallow UPS Freight

Shawn Brown Dennis Paper & Food Service Scott Nickerson FedEx Freight

Five Axle Van 340 Ronald Round Pottle’s Transportation

330 Kevin Duran Hannaford Trucking Co.

320 Eric Foster Land Air Express of NE

Philip Patry Clifford W. Perham/Shaw’s (*5) Jon Brockway Walmart Transportation

Scott Carter FedEx Freight

Five Axle Flatbed 340 Robert Balfour II Balfour Motor Express 331 Robert Magnuson Hannaford Trucking Co.

287 Alex Creighton Pottle’s Transportation Kraigh Cramer Central Maine Transport

Dave Crockett Currier Trucking John Lieberman Walmart Transportation

Roger Scott Dysart’s Transportation

Ken Lewis Central Maine Transport

Brian York Dysart’s Transportation

Five Axle Tank 350 Harry Hamlin Irving Oil Terminals, Inc.

341 James Coburn (*4) Cumberland Farms

332 James Shunk (*3) Nestle/Poland Spring Guy Currier Webber Oil Co.

David Gagne Clifford W. Perham/Shaw’s (*5) James Jewell Webber Oil Co.

Frank Betts II Walmart Transportation Fred Ayer Walmart Transportation

Anthony Swackley Irving Oil Terminals, Inc. Timothy Reynolds Nestle/Poland Spring

Ray Crockett Bill McPherson Trucking Clarence Towle Dennis K. Burke

Five Axle Sleeper 389 Richard Hill (*2) Walmart Transportation

322 Craig Carver Pottle’s Transportation

312 Brian McDuffie Pottle’s Transportation

Michael Jodoin Dysart’s Transportation

Tom Pooler Hannaford Trucking Co. Brian Green Pottle’s Transportation

Randy McCaw Central Maine Transport

Quentin Hardy Central Maine Transport James Hannigan Pottle’s Transportation

Jessie Fournier White Rock Distilleries

Step Van 379 Bradley Bartlett, Jr. FedEx Ground/CB Daigle

321 Nicholas Parent FedEx Express 306 Russell Broad FedEx Ground/CM Doughty

Dean Flye, Jr. FedEx Express Eric Barden FedEx Ground/CM Doughty

Jason Brooks FedEx Ground/CM Doughty Derrick DiPaulo Maine Uniform _______________________________________________________

*1 Grand Champion

*2 Pre-trip Inspection Award Winner

*3 Written Test Award Winner *4 Rookie of the Year

*5 Team Award

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Bolded names are members of the Maine Profes-

sional Drivers Association.

Note: All contestants are listed in order of finish. Anyone wanting their individual scores should contact

Cliff Gray or Denis Litalien.

2010 Maine State Truck Driving Championship Results


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Championships The 2010 Maine State Truck Driving Cham-

pionships were again held at Dysart’s Truck Termi-

nal in Hermon. The folks at Dysart‘s have been gra-

cious to us over the past 17 years in allowing us to

bring the competition to the greater Bangor area by using their facility for the driving and pre-trip in-

spection portions of the statewide competition. The

Maine Motor Transport Assn. conducts the Maine

State Truck Driving Championships with assistance

from the Maine Professional Drivers Assn.

Thanks to all the members who showed up in

Bangor for the State Truck Driving Championships.

As in the past, the Maine Professional Drivers Asso-ciation was involved with this event in a big way.

We had members setting up and judging on the

course, hosting a hospitality room, running the food booth, supplying course equipment and tearing down

the site. This is the biggest event of the year for us as it is the showcase of our industry and it is our big-

gest fundraiser for the Association with the food

booth.

Hannaford and Sysco graciously donated

food items for the food booth, run by Roger and Wanda Wilcox with help from Dick Brown and a

number of volunteers.

This year, our old friend and renowned

trucker, Ron Hutchins, generously agreed to spon-

sor the hospitality room for us. Thanks, Ron! While

Ron couldn‘t be there this year, he sends his best to everyone. We thank all the members who judged and

helped out in a number of ways and especially to the

following who handled key parts of the competition:

Cliff Gray & Randy DeVault – All aspects of the

competition, judges, scoring, etc. John Waisanen & Alan Paradis – Course set up

George Colby, Denis Litalien & Mike Frith –

MPDA Trailers & Course Equipment Pete Mortensen – Information and Sales Booth

Denis Litalien - Hospitality Room

Dave Littlefield – Pre-Trip Inspection

Nate Lewis – Driving Equipment

Dick Brown - Raffle

Thanks also to all the companies who were

involved this year by providing equipment and per-

sonnel to make sure this competition went off with-

out a hitch. And what a success it was! While space

limits us from thanking all those who helped put this

event together, we want them to know that we appre-

ciate the efforts that each and every one of them put

out to make this happen. Seventy-two drivers competed for the title of

Maine State Grand Champion and to be the State

Champion in each of eight different classes of trucks.

Hayri Berberoglu of Sysco of Northern New Eng-

land took home the Grand Champion title and went

to Columbus in August to represent Maine in the

Twin Trailer class at the ATA National Truck Driv-

ing Championships. Jim Coburn of Cumberland Farms was the Rookie of the Year. Other winners

are listed elsewhere in this edition of the newsletter.

A terrific time was had by all that converged on the city of Bangor and surrounding areas to par-

ticipate. Activities started on Friday, May 14th, as

company officials, MMTA staff and MPDA mem-

bers set up the driving course at Dysart‘s. On Friday

evening Denis Litalien and other MPDA members

hosted a hospitality room at the Bangor Motor Inn to

welcome all the participants to the event.

Saturday saw the contestants start their day with the written test portion at the Bangor Motor Inn

and the pre-trip inspection test at Dysart’s before going on to the actual driving competition. The

weekend was capped off with a huge awards banquet

held at the Bangor Motor Inn on Saturday evening.

Many families stayed over into Sunday to enjoy the

area and to return home at their leisure.

The banquet featured Ron Hawkins, a mem-

ber of America‘s Road team as the announcer and

guest speaker. Along with his invocation, Rev. Walker did a short tribute to Everett Macmaster,

who recently passed away, and spoke about how he

missed Bill and Barb Pooler being there this year, who were absent for health reasons.

N e w Y o r k C o n v o y The second annual Convoy for the Kids took place in July at Lake George, New York this year. It

featured Nashville talent, fireworks, Super Rigs Cal-

endar trucks among other attractions. For more

i n f o , c h e c k o u t t h e i r w e b s i t e a t

www.convoyforthekids.com

http://www.convoyforthekids.com/


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Championship Notes 2010 Championships Scoring Notes

Top Pre-Trip Scores (Sponsored by United Insurance Group)

(Out of possible 100) Richard Hill - 100

Ron Round - 90

Eric Foster - 87 Craig Carver - 82

Dean Flye, Jr. - 80

Brad Bartlett, Jr. - 80

Top Written Test Scores (Sponsored by Maine Professional Drivers Assn.)

(Out of possible 80)

Jim Shunk – 78

Glendon Buzzell – 76

Jon Brockway – 76 Rick Magnuson - 76

Richard Hill – 74

Kevin Duran – 74

Four drivers scored 72

Top Rookie of the Year Scores (Sponsored by Maine Commercial Tire, Inc.) Jim Coburn – 368.28

Nick Parent - 321 Russell Broad - 306

Dean Flye, Jr. - 305

Joe Buckley – 303.45

Grand Champion Scores (Sponsored by Hartt Transportation, Inc.)

Hayri Berberoglu II – 470.96

Richard Hill – 427.9

Brad Bartlett, Jr. – 379

Harry Hamlin - 378

James Coburn – 368.28

* There were 18 past State Champions in this year's Maine competition. Six out of the nine

State Champions this year are repeat winners

while Ron Round, Dennis Rickett and Harry

Hamlin won their first State Championships.

Out of this year's Champions, Glendon Buzzell,

Hayri Berberoglu, Rob Balfour, Brad Bartlett,

Richard Hill, and Denis Litalien are past

Champions.

Fun Championship Facts Past State Champions Competing This Year

Denis Litalien - (NH-‘81,‘82, ME-

‘84,‘87,‘88,‘94,‘95,‘00,‘01,‘04)

Rick Magnuson (‘89,‘98,‘02,‘05,‗09) David Gagne – (‘89,‘93,‘00,‘04)

Hayri Berberoglu II - (‘97,‘03,‘06,‘07)

Eric Foster - (‘06,‘07, ‗09) Kevin Duran – (‘82, ‘90)

Richard Hill - (‘06, ‗09)

Brad Bartlett - (‘08, ‗09)

Jason Brooks - (‘08, ‗09)

Glendon Buzzell - (‘83) Tony Swackey – (RI-‘97)

Roger Scott – (‘04)

Guy Currier - (‘05)

Rob Balfour - (‘07)

Scott Carter – (‘07) Bill Butland - (‘08)

Vince Cote - (‘09)

Matt Richardson – (‘09)

* With this year‘s win, Denis Litalien leads all Maine

drivers with 11 wins. Randy DeVault and Charlie Nadeau have done it 10 times. (Randy no longer com-

petes as he runs the training unit for MMTA and Char-lie is retired. Following close behind are Fern Rich-

ard with 9 wins (retired) and Warren Lewis with 8

wins (did not compete this year).

* Maine has five past National Champions. Mark

Corriveau of Hannaford Trucking Co. (2-time Na-

tional Champion) has retired from competition; War-

ren Lewis of Hannaford Trucking, Everett

Macmaster, (deceased) and Randy DeVault are past

Champions at the ATA National Truck Driving Cham-

pionships. Also, Warren and Rick Magnuson, both of Hannaford Trucking and Everett are past Na-

tional Champions at the U.S. Professional Truck Driv-

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National Champions Carl Krites, a Con-way Freight professional

truck driver based in Wapakoneta, Ohio was named

the 2010 National Truck Driving Grand Champion.

Carl's driving skills and knowledge of transportation and truck safety information topped those of 415

other professional drivers from all across the United

States in the National Truck Driving Championships,

held in Columbus, Ohio.

The 73rd annual "Super Bowl of Safety" is

sponsored by the American Trucking Associations.

The National Truck Championships were even on

Twitter and Facebook this year so everyone could keep up. The contestants were the state champions in

nine truck types from all 50 states. Collectively, they have driven 581,001,783 accident-free miles.

Carl also won the individual tank truck driv-

ing competition. Joining Carl as champions in their respective classes:

Straight Truck: Scott Watts – FedEx Express

(Anchorage, Alaska)

Three-Axle: Heladio Fernandez – FedEx Freight

(Portland, Ore.) Four-Axle: Jason Matte – FedEx Freight (Richland,

Miss.)

Five-Axle: Steve Elliston – Walmart Transporta-

tion (Sparta, Mich.)

Sleeper Berth Class: Bruce Quaal – YRC Freight

(Farmington, Minn.)

Twins: Don Logan – FedEx Freight (Eskridge, Kan.)

Flatbed Class: John Smith, Jr. – FedEx Ground

(Mooreville, Miss.)

Tank Truck Class: Carl Krites – Con-way Freight (Wapakoneta, Ohio)

Step Van: Sean Saxon – FedEx Ground (Mesa,

Ariz.) Carl Krites succeeds Dale Duncan, a professional

truck driver with Con-way Freight, as the National

Grand Champion.

Joseph Hicks, a driver for Con-way Freight

from Johnston, Rhode Island, was named 2010 Rookie of the Year after competing in the Three-

Axle division.

William Chavrala of New Penn Motor Ex-

press of Whitehall, Pennsylvania was presented with

the Vehicle Condition Award while Dennis Day of

Con-way Freight of Lawrenceville, Georgia received

the Neill Darmstadter Professional Excellence

Award and Dave Knobloch of LaCrosse, Wisconsin

was presented with the Life-Time Volunteer Award. He was the 4-Axle Class Den Mother this year.

The Oregon state truck driving championship

team won honors as the highest scoring state team. On a local note, FedEx Express established

an annual award to be presented to one of their driv-

ers each year at the Nationals. Scott Watts of Ari-zona was the first recipient of the Everett S.

Macmaster Award. Everett‘s two sons, Scott and

Sean, were flown out to Columbus to be part of the

presentation.

For more information, visit the 2010 National Truck Driving Championships website:

www.truckline.com/Federation/Councils/slpmc/NTDC/Pages/Default.aspx

Championships Preparation Part of what MPDA does is encouraging driv-

ers to get involved in the Championships, whether it

be at the company, State or National levels. This

year, the Association hosted a number of practices

for the contestants who wanted to sharpen up their

skills. MPDA also provided equipment and person-nel to companies wanting to host their own competi-

tions.

Special thanks to Warren & Claudette

Lewis, Don and Sandy Mitsmenn, Alan Paradis,

and Cliff Gray for all their help in putting this to-

gether. Warren was especially thorough in putting

together a simulated pre-trip inspection demo. Also,

special thanks to Emery-Waterhouse for the use of their parking lot in Portland for all the practice ses-

sions

If your company would like to set up a competition,

contact Alan Paradis at 289-0328 or

[email protected] to get on the calendar and re-

serve the equipment

Trucker Buddy For all the latest on the Trucker Buddy Pro-

gram go to Truckerbuddy.org. This program partners

truck drivers with classroom around the country to

help educate students on the trucking industry. Driv-ers visit schools and send postcards from various lo-

cations.

http://www.truckline.com/Federation/Councils/slpmc/NTDC/Pages/Default.aspxhttp://www.truckline.com/Federation/Councils/slpmc/NTDC/Pages/Default.aspxmailto:[email protected]


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Job Shadow Day By: Matt Spearin For Job Shadow Day I chose to job shadow my

Grandfather who works for Hannaford

Trucking. He delivers goods to the different stores

all over the state. The day that I went with him we

had to wake up at 2:00 A.M. When we got in his

pickup it was freezing in there as trucks normally

are. He said it was about 20* outside (he lives on

Sebago Lake so it is always a little colder there!!!

We made it into Scarborough by Sam‘s Club

and we got stuck in a red light. They are really

stupid. They turn green on all the lights except if

you are turning left then they go back to red then

to green and you can proceed on!!

We got to the yard and got truck 338 and drove

over to the main office. I met Chad at the desk. He

was really nice. My Grandfather clocked in and got

his information. He checked his mail box. There

wasn‘t any but I grabbed a cup of hot cocoa. It was

really good! When we got back

outside we picked up trailer 6513 (I‘ve memorized

all this.) He then checked the sheet that had all the

information on it. We had about half a load that we

had to haul then we had to go pick up

5 cases of RX way out back all by itself in a cage!!

I found out that if there‘s a problem with the truck/

trailer and you find it before you leave the gates

it‘s their fault, but once you leave the gates it‘s

your problem during the trip. I realized why Snow-

man (in Smokey and the Bandit-

FAVORITE MOVIE EVER) loves his job!

Once we got up to Plymouth, N.H., we were

about 45 minutes early so we had to wait a little

but not long. The people there seemed to get along

and were very nice to us. The guy who unloaded us

was EXTREMELY nice. I don‘t know his name

but he was a bigger guy and had shorter hair!

On the way back when it was light out I could

see that N.H. was highly watched by police, State

Troopers, D.O.T., etc. My Grandfather also told

me that during the week he makes stops to differ-

ent stores in a night but on weekends it‘s only 1 or

2. Mostly 1 though!!

And that‘s my report!!!

I‘d like to thank: Ron La Flemme, Chad, my

Grandfather (Rickard Dumbrocyo) and all the

Hannaford Bros. Crew for being extremely kind

and understanding.

National

Truck Driving Championships The ATA National Truck Driving Championships

were held August 3rd through the 7th in Columbus, Ohio.

Maine contestants finished as follows:

Straight Truck Class

Dennis Rickett Clifford W. Perham / Shaw’s

32nd

Step Van Class

Brad Bartlett, Jr. FedEx Ground

10th

Tank Class

Harry Hamlin Irving Oil 21st

Sleeper Class

Richard Hill Walmart

26th

Twin Trailer Class

Hayri Berberoglu Sysco of No. New England

45th

3-Axle Van Class

Glendon Buzzel Hannaford Trucking 29th

4-Axle Van Class

Denis Litalien Clifford W. Perham / Shaw’s 11th

5-Axle Van Class

Ron Round Pottle’s Transportation

4th

Flatbed Class

Rob Balfour Balfour Motor Express

26th


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Message from the President Let me give everyone a reminder of some upcoming events. On Sept 12th you can participate in

the 11th Annual Northeast Professional Truck Driv-

ers Charity Challenge at Sherman Square, Devens, Mass. Donations can be made online and go to St.

Jude‘s Children‘s Hospital. On Sept. 26 is our An-

nual Maine Trucking 4 Kids Convoy. Donations can

also be made online and it all goes to Camp Sun-

shine and DARE.

We need to give Nate Lewis, the Safety Di-

rector at Walmart for the donation to MPDA of a

53‖ trailer. Thank you Nate for your hard work and Thank You Walmart for your generous donation.

Coming soon, at the end of November, is the full blown activation of CSA2010. Are all you driv-

ers ready? You can check it out at

csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov. This is going to be a big change for the driver. The driver is going to be re-

sponsible for much more than in the past. Fore-

warned is forearmed.

George Colby

Charity Challenge The Northeast Professional Truck Drivers

Charity Challenge is coming up on September 12. If

you have never participated in this event and truck

driving competitions interest you, this is an event you will not want to miss. It consists of a well laid

out driving competition consisting of 11 obstacles

that drivers have to maneuver to score.

Awards are presented for the top 3 drivers in

each of 10 classes of vehicles. A Grand Champion

Award is also given out as well as 3 places for the

optional pre-trip inspection test and rules and regula-

tions test.

To enter a driver must raise at least $75.00

and must turn in the money at registration or make the donation online. Drivers may register online as

forms should be available in August. Much informa-

tion is available on the website for the event includ-

ing sponsoring various parts of the event by compa-

nies, local hotels to stay for the weekend, etc. Check

it out at www.necharitychallenge.org.

2010 New Hampshire State Champions

Straight Truck - Neil Nogues, YRC Three Axle - David Dapp – FedEx National LTL

Four Axle- Rick Wickman, YRC

Five Axle - Wayne Barss – True Value Company

Sleeper - Mike Cloutier, Walmart

Flatbed - Randy Cowles – True Value Company

Tank - Robert Heald – Walmart

Twins – Mickey Rafeal, YRC

Step Van - Charles Putnam, FedEx Express

2010 Massachusetts State Champions

Straight Truck - Ricky Sly - A. Duie Pyle Three Axle - Brain Singelais - A. Duie Pyle

Four Axle - John Forgione - A. Duie Pyle

Five Axle - Michael Chaplin - Clifford W. Pelham,

Inc. Flatbed - Karen Tierney - FedEx Express

Sleeper - Nick Treadwell – Con-Way Freight

Step Van - Bob Ledoux - FedEx Express (Step Van

Rookie of Yr. and Best Pre-Trip)

Tank - William Coolidge - Clifford W. Pelham,

Inc. Twins - Richard Sweeney – Con-Way Freight

Best Pre-Trip (tie) - Karen Tierney - FedEx Express

Best Pre-Trip (tie) – Bob Ledoux – FedEx Express Best Written Test - Daniel Kellerman – Con-Way

Freight

Step Van Rookie of the Year – Bob Ledoux -

FedEx Express

Team Trophy - Con-Way Freight Rookie of Year - Steve Pelletier – Con-Way Freight

Grand Champion - Brain Singelais – A. Duie Pyle

Brad Rayworth Award - Roland Bolduc - FedEx

Express

Trucking for Kids Convoy

While the Maine Trucking for Kids convoy doesn‘t happen

until September but meetings are held every month by the Convoy

Committee to organize all aspects of this fun event. This year Irving

Oil is getting on board with giveaways and on site promotions to help

promote the event. Come to the next meeting in August and see what‘s

going on.

Editor’s note… Updated Convoy information is available on the

MPDA website including a new feature to make online donations to the

event. We are also still looking for volunteers from the MPDA side to

handle the “trucking” part of the event. Also, please don’t forget that

the Old Country Buffet Restaurant at the Maine Mall, a long time Con-

voy supporter, always gives anyone attending our meetings half-price

meals. Visit our website: www.mpda.org/trucking4kids

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Splitshifting by Denis Litalien Congratulations to Hayri Berberoglu for his

winning the Grand Champion Award at the State

Truck Driving Championships this year. Hayri,

Champion in the Twins Class, along with the eight other State Champions, travelled to Columbus in Au-

gust to attempt to become National Champions and

bring back the Team Award at the National Truck

Driving Championships.

While the drivers who participated get all the

attention, we should remember and thank all who

lent a helping hand at the Championships. Many of

our members spent the day at the food booth, on the course as judges, scoring drivers for the pre-trip in-

spection; staging equipment, selling raffle tickets,

hats and t-shirts and doing all those little things that

make the event an annual success.

Splitting gears here, we attended this year‘s

competition with a heavy heart as we mourn the loss

of good friend Everett Macmaster. His absence was very obvious throughout the Championship

weekend in Bangor. Thanks to his son, Shawn, who

sent us a giant poster of Everett, we felt as if he was with us in the hospitality room. As a past National

Champion and a 5 time State Champion he was well

known by everyone. And not only for his accom-

plishments, but for his personality and his sense of

humor.

And since we started putting together this

newsletter, we also lost another dear friend, Bill

Pooler. We all remember him showing up at all the driving competitions with his golf carts. And some

of us even remember when he was a volunteer at the Nationals and when he drove a car carrier for Anchor

Motor Freight under the CB handle of Town Crier.

We miss you guys!

Shifting gears again, I want to thank the driv-

ers who volunteered their time for the 2010 Bike

Trek of Maine on June 16, 17 and 20. Thanks to your

efforts and that of many others, the Lung Association

raised over $1.5 million to help us all breathe easier. Over 1900 bicyclists were able to ride from Sunday

River to the Belfast waterfront. We were able to

have a safe event thanks in great part to the profes-sionalism of our drivers. Those members who

helped were Pete Mortensen, Dick Brown, Cliff

Gray, Dale Rowe, George Colby, Dale Rowe, Rob

Fernald, Jim Shunk and Mike Conroy. Also, special

thanks to Emery-Waterhouse for the use of their

parking lot for the trucks. And let‘s not forget the Trucking for Kids

Convoy coming up at the end of September. This is

the best opportunity for us to showcase the good things we do in the community. Thanks to Irving Oil,

who is promoting this event at all their gas stations

this year, for their stepped up support this year. The event is a lot of fun, raises some money for the kids

and generates some great publicity!

In the meantime, keep on truckin‘….safely!

Denis

MPDA Officers

To contact the officers of the Maine Professional Driv-

ers Association, you can write, call or email the following:

President - George Colby

44 Shaw Rd. New Gloucester ME 04260

207-926-9217

[email protected]

207-577-5181 - Cell

Vice President - Michael Coulombe

97 Quaker Rd. Sidney ME 04330

207-547-3964

[email protected]

TDC Officer - Clifford Gray

c/o MMTA P.O. Box 857 Augusta ME 04332

207-623-2647

[email protected]

Legislative Officer - David Littlefield

76 Ash Swamp Rd. Scarborough ME 04074-9723

207-883-3061

[email protected]

Membership Officer - Peter Mortensen

25 Chicopee Lane Unit #5. Biddeford ME 04005

207-229-4983

[email protected]

Treasurer - Alan Paradis

27 W. Beech Ridge Rd. Scarborough ME 04074

207-883-5622

[email protected]

207-289-0328 - Cell

Publicity Officer - Roger Wilcox

28 N. Dyer Neck RD. Newcastle ME 04553

207-586-6015

[email protected]

207-441-1422 - Cell

Interim Secretary - Denis Litalien

9 Lynn AVE, Biddeford, ME 04005-3619

207-282-6346

[email protected]

207-468-7373 - Cell


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Member News

Our former Legislative Officer is now running for office. Dan Schweitzer is running as an Independent

candidate for the Maine Senate District 20. Anyone wanting to check out his website can go to

www.independent4senate.net Good luck, Dan!

National Champion Everett Macmaster recently passed away. A huge memorial service was held at

the Woodford‘s Club in Portland. Attendees came from far and wide with a big contingent from

the Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine Drivers Associations present. Many members

got up and related some funny stories about Everett and his wonderful sense of humor.

FedEx had a tractor-trailer parked outside which will be used to host driving competi-

tions around the company‘s facilities. It is now named ―The Everett‖ in honor of his accom-

plishment over the years.

Everett was known far and wide for his driving history, having won the State Truck

Championships five times and winning the National Championship. He was also well known

by MPDA members for always being around to help with any event that needed help, whether it

was company driving competitions, the Trucking for Kids Convoy, the annual Bike Trek event, among many

other things. He was always on hand to help the new guys with practicing for the State and National competi-

tions when he wasn‘t already in the competition himself. He will be missed!

Bill Pooler, 79, died July 24, 2010, at his home in Wesley Chapel, Florida.

Bill lived part time in Hooksett, New Hampshire and Florida.

Bill was a retired Teamster since 1993. He was a member of the antique truck club and an ac-

tive member of the New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts Professional Drivers Associa-

tions. He logged more than 4 million accident-free miles on America's roadways.

Funeral services took place Aug. 20, which would have been Bill's 80th birthday, at the Bos-

cawen Veteran Cemetery in Boscawen, New Hampshire. In lieu of flowers, please donate to

Angels Unaware, Inc., P.O. Box 270040, Tampa, FL 33688-0040.

Condolences may be sent to his wife Barbara at:

Barbra Pooler

33931 Coddle Court

Wesley Chapel, Fla. 33543

e-mail [email protected]

phone 1-813-788-5353

Roadcheck Figures Show High Compliance Levels The Maine Department of Public Safety Roadcheck News reports that only 4.4% of drivers stopped for in-

spections in this year‘s Roadcheck event held last month were placed out service — the same percentage as last year

when driver compliance hit an all-time high for the annual safety inspection event held across North America.

Results from the June 8-10 event sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance show that the com-

mercial motor vehicle industry hovering close to the record low out-of-service rates set during 2009.

Figures show the overall vehicle compliance rate at 80%, down slightly from 80.4% last year, with an overall

driver compliance rate of 95.6%, which is unchanged from last year, according to American Trucking Associations.

―This year‘s Roadcheck results provide further evidence of the trucking industry‘s steadfast commitment to

safety,‖ said American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves.

In the hazmat driver category, 2.5% of the drivers stopped were placed out of service, down from 3% in

2009. Because of inspector layoffs due to the poor economy, the number of inspections conducted this year, 65,327,

was down 10% from last year.

The results showed that despite the recession‘s impact on both trucking and commercial vehicle safety in-

spectors at the local government level, safety benchmarks are holding, said Stephen Keppler, CVSA‘s interim execu-

tive director.

Other Roadcheck sponsors were the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Transport Canada, the Ca-

nadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators and Mexico‘s Secretariat of Communications and Transportation.

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Website Update MPDA continues to make our organization

more productive and efficient. Members can

now pay dues online, make donations to MPDA

or ―Trucking 4 Kids‖ convoy, and purchase

membership items through our members only

page on the website. Check out our items for

sale—hats, shirts, fleece vests and jackets as

well as pins, decals, and patches.

Pete Mortensen

Webmaster

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2010-2011 MPDA Board of Directors President George Colby Vice President Michael Coulombe Treasurer Alan Paradis Secretary (Interim) Denis Litalien Membership Officer Pete Mortensen T.D.C. Officer Cliff Gray Legislative Officer David Littlefield Publicity Officer Roger Wilcox

All Active Past Presidents Past Presidents

Dave Stuart, Dick Brown, Fred Thompson, Doug Pickard, Ron Hutchins (2 Terms),

John Waisanen, Alan Paradis, Denis Litalien

MPDA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

dedicated to promoting

courtesy, safety and professionalism

in the field of commercial driving.

MPDA Newsletter Staff Editor: Denis Litalien

Layout, Design, & Distribution: Pete Mortensen

Contributors: Dave Littlefield, Matt Spearin,

Dick Brown, George Colby

Webmaster: Pete Mortensen

“Behind the Wheel” Our newsletter is published quarterly for

our members and advertisers. Articles of interest to members, advertising copy,

inquires, payments, change of address, comments, and newsletter submissions should be mailed to:

Maine Professional Drivers Association

P.O. Box 5672 / Augusta, Maine / 04332-5672

Tel – (207)-318-7395 / [email protected]

www.mpda.org

April, May, June, July, August, September

Membership Anniversaries

15 Years

William Phipps, Associated Grocers of Maine, Cross

Insurance Jones-Hoxie Division, Emery Waterhouse

Co., Performance Food Group-NorthCenter, Yarmouth Lumber Co.

10 Years

Christopher A. Libby, Clarence Thompson, James L.

Coburn, Krisway Truck Leasing Co.

5 Years

Alan C. Henriksen

Upcoming Meetings

October 2010

17 MPDA Meeting (Includes Budget

Committee Meeting), MMTA Office, Augusta

- contact George Colby at [email protected]

or 577-5181 (www.mpda.org )

January 2011

20 MPDA Meeting, Location TBA - contact

George Colby at [email protected] or 577-

5181 (www.mpda.org )

March 2011

19 MPDA Meeting, Location TBA - contact

George Colby at [email protected] or 577-

5181 (www.mpda.org )

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