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Womack is the first woman to be recognized with this honor since the organization’s founding in 1935.
“Giant Food is incredibly proud of Annette Womack for being recognized as Maryland Motor Truck Association’s 2015 Driver of the Year,” said Joe Urban, vice president of distribution operations, Giant Food. “Annette navigates a truck through some of the busiest, densest traffic in the country to deliver goods for our customers and we are so happy she is receiving industry-wide recognition of the excellence she brings to her work for Giant every day.”
With 1.7 million miles and more than 30 years of accident-free driving, Womack is not your average truck driver, Urban said.
“She goes above and beyond her job responsibilities to ensure fellow drivers and the public at large are safe,” he said.
While working at Giant, Womack created a driver route book to help new drivers get safely in and out of Giant’s 169 stores and to make routes more efficient.
She also started the "Transportation News,” a safety newsletter that alerts transportation managers of safety issues at stores and distribution centers.
“Annette Womack is a credit to the entire trucking industry,” said Louis Campion, president of the Maryland Motor Truck Association. “Her dedication to safety, both in her own driving and in the countless hours she spends to make driving in the heavily congested Washington DC corridor easier for others at Giant, make her a worthy recipient of Maryland’s Truck Driver of the Year award. She is an example for others to follow."
Among some of Womack’s stories are when she stopped a pick-up truck from catching fire on Christmas Eve during rush hour by coming to the rescue and dousing the smoldering engine and also when she worked during Maryland’s blizzard this year to help dig out and move Giant trailers at the home office so that goods could get to stores.
In addition to being named Driver of the Year, Womack has received many other awards for her skills. She won the tanker division of Giant’s Safety Driver Championship in 2010 and 2015, the Giant Food Grand Champion for driving in 2010 and is a four-time winner of the Giant Food Presidential Award.
Maryland Motor Truck Association with over 1,000 members, was founded in 1935 and serves every segment of the trucking industry through a wide range of informational, educational, regulatory and legislative initiatives.
Headquartered in Landover, Maryland, Giant Food operates 169 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia, and employs approximately 20,000 associates.
http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2016/3/15/MarylandMotorTruckAssociationnamesAnnetteWomack15DriveroftheYear.aspx
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