and flatbed trailers and 80 heavy-duty diesel trucks. Hedges joined the AMTA almost as soon as he started the company and encouraged his employees to be involved in AMTA in a variety of ways. In 2002, he was named the association’s outstanding member for his and his company’s support of Arizona’s Over-dimensional Permit Council. Fred Hurley founded Hurley


Trucking in 1952 as a newspaper distribution company while working as a district manager for the Arizona Republic newspaper. He began the company by convincing newspaper executives to help him buy his first truck in exchange for promising reliable newspaper deliveries. Hurley was a leader in the industry. He served several terms on the AMTA’s board of directors and was president in 1969 and 1970. Today, Hurley Consulting Group hauls the Arizona Republic to every major city in Arizona. It also carries other newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and provides services for non-newspaper clients. Fred Hurley passed away in 1974.


2008 Hurley Transportation repeated its


claim to a Pioneer Award in 2008 when its current chairman, Bill Ewing, was so honored. Ewing, an Eagle Scout, served on a secret mission to Turkey during the Vietnam War era and then, after returning home, went to work at Hurley at the same time he earned his degree from Arizona State University. Meanwhile, Ewing has been active in the association, including serving as chairman from 1987-89 and serving on the Facilities Task Force overseeing the design and construction of ATA’s new building. He’s also been active in the community, serving with, of course, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Somehow, he has also found the time to climb Mount Everest and Mount Kilimanjaro, and travel to 88 different countries. Another 2008 recipient was John


Ford, longtime owner and president of I-10 International Trucks, Diamond Truck Center and Idealease of Arizona. For many years, Ford and I-10 International sponsored AMTA’s fleet safety competition. He was also involved in much of the association’s regulatory and legislative work, including


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representing the industry on the Governor’s Brown Cloud Summit Committee, Regional Haze Stakeholders Group and the Cap and Trade Committee. Ford also was active in other trade groups, including the Arizona Auto Dealers Association. The final 2008 recipient was Pat


Crahan, longtime director of governmental relations for U-Haul International. Crahan served an integral role in U-Haul’s growth and in the writing of what became known as the International Registration Plan. Crahan drafted many of the IRP’s key provisions after U-Haul lobbied for several decades for an equitable way for states to classify, license and tax rental trailers. For his work, he also received the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators Distinguished Community Member Service Award.


2009 Only one person was awarded the


Pioneer Award that year: Freeman Theriault, who was the Board’s unanimous choice. Born in 1949 in Canada, Theriault moved to Phoenix in 1983 and started Finder’s Equipment, an equipment brokering business. He joined the AMTA that year and became an active membership recruiter. When ATA sold its property in 2007 to move to its new location, he bought the old Phoenix campus as his contribution to the new building fund. An avid golfer, he has 46 lifetime holes in one (the record is 59) and serves on the Junior Golf Association of Arizona board of directors. He also volunteers with the Special Olympics and with Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Foundation.


2010 Doug Burkard moved to Arizona in the


1970s and became director of maintenance at Calzona Truck Lines. At Calzona, Burkard placed great emphasis on safety, insisting that drivers drive below 60 miles per hour at a time before speed governors were commonplace. He brought his safety- first mindset to the AMTA’s Council of Safety Supervisors and Maintenance Council, where he helped organize the state truck driving championships and the Driver of the Month program. After leaving Calzona, Burkard joined Inland Kenworth and later worked for a local trailer dealer. He was AMTA’s chairman in 1991-92.


A.E. Minard started driving a tractor


in his father’s Oklahoma field as a boy and at age 16 began driving a 63-mile school bus route. He became an Arizona truck driver in his mid-20s and drove for several carriers. He then spent 10 years working in management for RileyWhittle Co., first in Phoenix and then in Cincinnati. He then came back to Phoenix to start his own company, DLX. He served as AMTA chairman in 1994-95 and later served several years as ATA’s VIN inspector.


2011 The Pioneer Award winners honored


this year didn’t haul freight or supply equipment to the industry. But their service was recognized as invaluable nonetheless. Michael “Mickey” Bernstein was a prominent Arizona attorney who specialized in transportation law for five decades and represented many ATA members. Before deregulation, he was the recognized authority on obtaining operating authorities issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was a longtime member of what is now the Transportation Lawyers Association, and he served on AMTA’s board of directors for many years. His firm— Baumann, Doyle, Paytas &Bernstein— has been a member of ATA for many years. Mickey passed away earlier in 2011 after many years of ill health. As commander of the Department


of Public Safety, Richard “Dick” Landis was responsible for motor carrier and hazmat safety in Arizona. The position capped a distinguished law enforcement career in which he rose to captain with less time served than any other officer. After he retired with 20 years of service, President Reagan appointed Landis in 1985 as associate administrator in charge of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Bureau, where he spent more than seven years as the nation’s top federal regulator of the interstate truck and bus industries. In 1993, he became president and CEO of HELP Inc., the public-private partnership charged with overseeing PrePass, the nation’s largest truck pre-clearance program. During his Landis’ career at HELP, he served on ATA’s board of directors and as its alternate state vice president to the American Trucking Associations for a few years.


Arizona Trucking Association 2012 Yearbook


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