AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodyear
(NASDAQ: GT) is accepting nominations for its annual Highway
Hero Award, which honors truck drivers who put themselves in harm's
way to help others. The 2019 Goodyear Highway Hero Award winner,
Paul Mathias, a driver for System
Transport of Cheney, Wash.,
administered CPR to save the life of a young passenger involved in
a car accident.
"It's incredibly humbling to hear story after story of the
selflessness of so many of our nation's truck drivers," said
Gary Medalis, marketing director,
Goodyear North America. "Goodyear's Highway Hero Award gives us an
opportunity to share these incredible stories and celebrate the
extraordinary deeds of truck drivers in the ordinary course of
their work."
Nomination forms for the Goodyear Highway Hero Award are
available here. A copy of contest rules can also be found
online.
A panel of representatives from the trucking industry will
select the next Goodyear Highway Hero from among three finalists
identified by Goodyear. The winner will be announced in
March 2020, coinciding with the
annual Mid-America Trucking Show, and will receive a cash award,
among other prizes. Each finalist will also receive a cash prize
and various items.
Nominations must be submitted before December 31, 2019 and meet the following criteria
to be considered for the award:
- A full-time truck driver
- Residing in the U.S. or Canada
- The heroic incident must have happened in the U.S. or
Canada
- Nominee's truck must have had 12 wheels or more at the time of
the incident
- Nominee must have been on the job – or on the way to or from
work, in his or her truck – at the time of the incident
- Incident must have taken place between Nov. 16, 2018 and Nov. 16,
2019
This marks the 37th year Goodyear will be honoring a truck
driver with this award. Past Goodyear Highway Hero Award winners
include a truck driver who ripped the back door from a burning car
to save two passengers and a driver who dove into a pond to pull a
child from a submerged car.
About Goodyear
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It
employs about 64,000 people and manufactures its products in 47
facilities in 21 countries around the world. Its two Innovation
Centers in Akron, Ohio, and
Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to
develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the
technology and performance standard for the industry. For more
information about Goodyear and its products, go to
www.goodyear.com/corporate.
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SOURCE The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company