Set up in 1983 by tire manufacturer Goodyear, as a means to celebrate and honor heroic actions performed by professional truck drivers across the US, the North America Highway Hero designed its 27th winner this week, during the Mid-America Trucking Show.
The award went to Junichi Shimizu, an Oregon truck driver who saved three lives on Highway 12 near Fairfield, California, on February 20, 2009. Shimizu was driving westbound when an incoming vehicle crossed the centerline and struck a car i… (read more)