Driver Takes Home WIT Award

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

This year’s event took place Sept. 15, 2019. Crane’s daughter and long-time Hundreds of trucks crossed the Mackinac WIT member Fran Bernard. 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 monitors the flow of traffic through this small Gulick Trucking, Inc. is looking to 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. drivers return year after year to show off their is a 48-state carrier based in big rigs, listen to the bands, enjoy an elephant ear or two and reunite at this special event,” says Vancouver, WA and we have been doing business since 1973. Come join our family. Ellen Voie, President and CEO of the Women In Trucking Association (WIT), who attended this year and presented the Women In Trucking Amanda Haynes • 360.836.3724 Brian Patrick • 360.836.3709 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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