CCJ‘s Technology and Maintenance Career Leadership Award honors a career of dedication to professionalism and excellence in fleet maintenance. Industry involvement, recognitions and awards and reputation among peers figure into the selection. Individuals who made significant contributions to the industry while directly engaged in truck fleet management are eligible even if they no longer work for a fleet operation.
This year’s recipient is Brent Hilton. Here’s his story.
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Any given weekend or after school in Gurdon, Ark., if you were looking for Brent Hilton – the son of the local postman and the secretary at the hometown bank – you’d surely find him one of those places.
If he wasn’t to be found with a ball, fishing pole or rifle in-hand, there was one other place you might look: the garage.
“When we had problems with vehicles back then, we fixed them,” he says. “We didn’t have the money to have them fixed. We didn’t tow it to the shop. We towed it home.”
While a young Hilton displayed a budding mechanical aptitude and strong work ethic, the calls of tennis, baseball, football and golf were difficult to ignore.
