{"id":909,"date":"2020-05-17T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/?p=909"},"modified":"2020-05-18T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:50:17","slug":"alabama-carrier-lb3-hosting-its-own-tdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/other-news\/2020\/05\/17\/alabama-carrier-lb3-hosting-its-own-tdc\/909\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Carrier LB3 Hosting Its Own TDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Al Muskewitz<br><\/strong>&nbsp;<br>The state and national Truck Driving Championships may have been canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but one Alabama carrier plans to conduct its own truck rodeo next month as part of a day of \u201ccompany hoo-rah\u201d to celebrate its drivers and give them a well-deserved day of fun after a particularly difficult spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_4061.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-913\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>LB3 will conduct its own TDC on June 6 in the shop yard off U.S. 431 outside Wedowee, Ala. The Alabama Trucking Association will be on hand to help set up the course.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cWe\u2019re going to do our own personal rodeo,\u201d LB3 chief operating officer Brian Lindley announced during a recent interview with Wright Media. \u201cOne of the reasons is because our guys have been through so much with this pandemic. We want to cook for them, we wanted to celebrate just a little bit of \u2018job well done, guys.\u2019\u201d<br>&nbsp;<br>But there will be a trophy presented to the winner. Perhaps, with the other events canceled this year, the winner could lay claim to unofficial national champion.<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cMore than anything I just want it to be fun,\u201d Lindley said.<br>&nbsp;<br>LB3, which delivers refrigerated poultry and paper products primarily east of the Mississippi, won the President\u2019s Award in this year\u2019s Alabama Trucking Association Fleet Safety Awards as the state\u2019s safest fleet. The six-year-old carrier participated in the Alabama Truck Driving Championship for the first time in 2019 and driver Nathan Heflin placed third in the Sleeper Berth division.<br>&nbsp;<br><em>Al Muskewitz is the Editor of Wright Media. He can be reached at musky@wrightmediacorp.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Al Muskewitz&nbsp;The state and national Truck Driving Championships may have been canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but one Alabama carrier plans to conduct its own truck rodeo next month as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,251,151,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}