The Mike O’Connell Trucking Top Rookie Award was created to recognize the top rookie in the trucking industry every year. Mike O’Connell, who was formerly the executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association. He believed that honoring a top… Read More
NCTA Human Resources Professional of Year for 2017
Melissa Nishan, Epes Transport’s VP of Driver Recruiting, was recently named by the North Carolina Trucking Association (NCTA) Safety & Human Resources Council as Human Resources Professional of Year for 2017. Melissa has been in the trucking business for over… Read More
Distracted Driving
Repost from 2011. Four seconds. That’s the average time it takes a person to dial a telephone and press send. It can take even more time to type and send a text message. Four seconds may not seem long, but… Read More
Smart Fleet Champion
Once again, Epes Transport System has been awarded the prestigious 2018 North Carolina Smart Fleet Champion award, presented by North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, which is affiliated with the NC State University School of Engineering. With the focus of… Read More
We Salute Our Veterans
“The Great War”…World War I, officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting had actually ceased some seven months earlier, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh… Read More