HDT Honors Keller Trucking’s Sarah Cates with Security & Compliance Award – Security & Compliance
Sarah Cates, director of security for Keller Trucking, is the winner of the HDT Security & Compliance Award for 2023.
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Sarah Cates has been director of security at Defiance, Ohio-based Keller Trucking for under three years, however her success in completely remodeling the corporate’s security tradition was a key think about Heavy Obligation Trucking’s editors honoring her with the 2023 Security & Compliance Award.
Sponsored by security options supplier J.J. Keller & Associates, the HDT Security & Compliance Award acknowledges security and compliance executives at trucking fleets for his or her management and innovation. It’s open to people in management positions in areas akin to security, danger administration, and human assets.
By specializing in participating drivers with a behavior-based security strategy, mixed with updating and adopting new security applied sciences, Cates slashed the corporate’s crash indicator rating to a fraction of what it was.
She spearheaded a transfer to a brand new digital logging machine system, applied driver-facing digital camera security systems with out shedding any drivers, and has completed all this throughout a time of firm development.
Cates is licensed in security by the North American Transportation Administration Institute and was named the 2022 Security Skilled of the 12 months for the Ohio Trucking Affiliation.
As well as, Keller Trucking final yr was named the Fleet Security Award Winner by the the Ohio Trucking Affiliation within the 5 Million to 10 Million Miles Class.
HDT Gear Editor Jim Park introduced Cates with the HDT Security & Compliance award Friday, Nov. 10, on the Fleet Security Convention, a part of Bobit’s Fleet Ahead Convention in Santa Clara, California. The ceremony was adopted by a panel dialogue that includes Cates and different trucking security professionals.
Cates shall be featured within the November/December 2023 print version of Heavy Obligation Trucking.
HDT Gear Editor Jim Park, left, presents the award to Sarah Cates, previous to moderating a panel with Cates and different trucking security consultants on the Fleet Ahead/Fleet Security Convention.
Photograph: Lauren Brooks, Monclay Media
The 2023 HDT Security & Compliance Award Finalists
Different finalists for the award had been:
- Frank Chauvette, Transportation Security Supervisor, Ocean State Job Lot, North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Chauvette was introduced in as a devoted transportation security supervisor and has applied processes, objectives, and applied sciences that minimize its crash price practically in half.
- Jaime Hamm, VP of Security and Compliance, Werner Enterprises, Omaha, Nebraska. Hamm has led the roll-out of in-cab cameras, helped implement driver simulators and a switchover to a brand new ELD system, and launched hair testing for medication.
- John Spiros, VP of Security & Claims Administration, Roehl Transport, Marshfield, Wisconsin. Spiros, who’s additionally serving as a state consultant, has for greater than 20 years led Roehl’s rising security tradition, targeted on the foundation reason behind crashes, and “operationalized” security.
What Makes an HDT Security & Compliance Award Winner?
Components thought of in figuring out the winner of the HDT Security & Compliance Award embody:
- Making a distinction in a fleet’s security efficiency
- Function in firm security tradition
- Current security initiatives
- FMCSA Security Measurement System knowledge
- Modern pondering
- Know-how adoption
- Security processes
- Security measurement and enchancment
- Trade involvement and management
