Grand Trophy Award 2011

For nearly two decades Jay Foley along with his wife, Shirley and bowling partner, Mike O’Dore, have been working hard to make Diversified Transfer & Storage (DTS) a one stop transportation solution operation. 
 
Foley and his team at DTS has made a living out of solving other people’s problems.  That and the fact that his father was a trucker led him to the trucking industry.  His part time sales job in college and a shortage of trucks for his freight agency prompted him to buy trucks.  In 1988 he bought a couple of trucks and started his trucking company.
 
This outstanding company offers an array of services including LTL truckload trucking divisions; cold storage distribution and warehousing facilities and a pallet remanufacturing division, and not to mention offices in Salt Lake City and Denver. 
 
Jay Says “I have always been customer driven.  I had a customer who had a problem with pallet re-building so I started a company for that.  We always look at what the customer needs and see what we can do to fill those needs.”
 
DTS’s involvement in MCM does not only include Foley, who served as president from 2002-2004 and his partner Mike O’Dore who both serve on the MCM Board of Directors but also includes Frank Molodecki who serves on the Board as the Safety Management and Maintenance Council representative.  In addition to this service, Cheri Stockert,
 
DTS’s Director of Safety was chosen as the MCM Safety Supervisor of the year for MCM and just last month was chosen as the Safety Supervisor of the Year for the Rocky Mountain Region.
 
You can always find a DTS truck and employee when MCM runs a Share the Road, Truck Driving Championship or Truck Driver Appreciation Event. 

Grand Trophy Award 2010

The Grand Trophy Award winner is chosen by an independent panel of judges that selects the winner using various safety criteria, such as activity in the Safety Management, Maintenance and Technology Council; Truck Driving Championships; Driver Appreciation Week; previous Fleet Safety Awards; involvement in America’s Road Team; and the company that displays an overall exemplary safety program with no accidents in the current year.

Motor Carriers of Montana is pleased to announce that Whitewood Transport from Billings, Montana, has won the prestigious Grand Trophy award sponsored by Great West Casualty Company for an unprecedented fourth year in a row.

Whitewood Transport travels over 1.2 million miles in Montana each year and in excess of 3.5 million miles nation wide.  They are an authorized for-hire carrier and are heavily involved with Motor Carriers of Montana and the Safety Management, Maintenance and Technology Council.  Whitewood was chosen from over 15 Montana carriers who applied for the award.

Whitewood Transport specializes in heavy hauls, for customers throughout the continental United States (including Alaska) and Canada. They are known nationally as a heavy-haul specialist, expertly moving equipment and commodities of large or unusual weight or dimension.

Motor Carriers of Montana represents Montana’s motor carrier industry and currently has over 600 members.  Its goal is to promote the trucking industry through cooperation and education in Montana and across the country.  MCM members strive to improve transportation service by providing leadership and assistance to persons and firms engaged in the motor carrier industry.  MCM’s chief goal is to make Montana’s highways a safer place for our families and the traveling public.

More information about Motor Carriers of Montana or the Great West Fleet Safety Award can be obtained by contacting MCM at 406-442-6600 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

MCM would also like to thank Great West Casualty Company for their continued support and sponsorship of this award.

Click here to download our Grand Trophy Award application