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Fleet Safety Awards

The Washington Trucking Association and Washington State Patrol presented our Portland/Vancouver region’s Aggregate Trucking Division with the 2005 Fleet Safety Award. Our drivers won this award for collectively driving an amazing 4,908,280 city miles (7,897,422 kilometres) in densely populated urban areas with no accidents or company or driver moving citations.

We were also honoured to have Darrell Hardaway presented with the “2005 Driver of the Year.” Ten of our drivers were nominated for the award, which was presented along with the Fleet Safety Award at a “Day for Winners” banquet held at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Washington. Darrell was presented with a jacket, plaque, gift certificate and reward and recognition points.

“Congratulations to all our drivers for receiving this award and especially to Darrell for the driver of the year award,” says David Chavez, Rinker Materials West safety manager. “It is fantastic to know we have such a high calibre of drivers working for us.”

We now have three “Drivers of the Year” driving for us. Richard Spencer, winner in 2001, Earl Duke Rice, winner in 2002 and now Darrell Hardaway, current winner for 2005. We have also won the Fleet Safety Award previously in the year 2002.

Readymix environmental awards

Readymix’s new North Geelong plant in Victoria picked up three awards for best environmental practice at the recent Cement, Concrete and Aggregate Association Victorian Environmental Awards for 2005.

The awards represent some fine work by our team in this area. Categories for these awards were:

Geoff Wakeman, transport manager, was the driver for the “I Button” concept. This project focuses on technical and quality assurance by ensuring only the right cementitious product is delivered to our silos. This award was for the innovation category.

Brian Tobin, national operations manager, and his team developed design, construction and commissioning of the North Geelong plant. Thanks to Brian, Chuck Digney and Bob Beattie for their fantastic efforts.

The advanced water and dust handling systems as well as decorative concrete capabilities means the team at this new plant can benefit from a competitive advantage in the Geelong market.

“Tribute should be paid to the team in Geelong,” says Bill Perry, general manager Victoria Concrete. “They managed to keep our business running smoothly often in pretty tough conditions whilst the new plant was built around them. Thanks to you all.”