...WIT News Briefs..................... WIT Honors Driver at Truck Show For 24 years, the Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show has been a highlight for the residents of St. Ignace, Mich.
Su Schmerheim (center) accepts the Women In Trucking Award from WIT’s Ellen Voie and Crane’s daughter and long-time WIT member Fran Bernard.
This year’s event took place Sept. 15, 2019. Hundreds of trucks crossed the Mackinac Bridge with their horns blaring and lights blazing as they made their way over the fivemile bridge. Fran (Crane) Bernard and her brother, Rick Crane, have been the driving force behind this annual event which honors their father, Richard Crane, a former driver, truck owner and founder of the American Truck Driving Schools. The LEASE/OWNER National Association of Show Trucks (NAST) OPERATORS WANTED manages the awards, parks the trucks and Gulick Trucking, Inc. is looking to monitors the flow of traffic through this small partner with successful lease/owner town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. operators. We have Equipment “The entire show feels like a family affair, as available. Gulick Trucking, Inc. is a 48-state carrier based in drivers return year after year to show off their Vancouver, WA and we have been big rigs, listen to the bands, enjoy an elephant doing business since 1973. ear or two and reunite at this special event,” says Come join our family. Ellen Voie, President and CEO of the Women In Amanda Haynes • 360.836.3724 Trucking Association (WIT), who attended this Brian Patrick • 360.836.3709 year and presented the Women In Trucking Award. Bernard, a long-time WIT member, established the award to honor a female driver in the competition. This year, WIT member Su Schmerheim was the recipient of the WIT award. She drives for Eccelstone Horse Transport and is one of the few female solo horse haulers in the nation.WIT Ad 4.625x3.375-2.19.indd 1 Schmerheim and her feline companion, Jake, were a hit at the show, as Jake watched over the folks checking out the gleaming horse trailer hooked to a 2008 Kenworth Y-800. Schmerheim even had her fingernails painted for the occasion with the Kenworth logo. n
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