Con-Way Takes Lead on Highway Watch

September 29, 2004 5:00 AM, EDT

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on-Way Transportation Services said it would encourage all its 13,000 drivers to participate in American Trucking Associations’ Highway Watch program, in what ATA said was the first corporate-wide effort by a national trucking company.

“It’s not enough that the trucking industry only deliver freight on time anymore,” said Gerald Detter, president of the less-than-truckload carrier in Ann Arbor, Mich.

“We now have an important duty to take a leadership position in helping provide security on America’s highways, while still promoting safety as we always have,” Detter said. “Con-Way drivers will do their part whenever possible.”

ATA launched Highway Watch in 1998 as a joint safety initiative with the Federal Highway Administration and state trucking associations.

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