Nominate your HighwayStar of the Year

Do you know a truck driver or owner-operator who stands head and shoulders above their peers? There’s a way to recognize just how special they are. Nominations are now being…

Ron Pridmore: 2019 Highway Star of the Year

You could call Ron Pridmore a payload specialist. Over 40 years at the wheel of various moving trucks he has hauled household goods for the likes of prime ministers and…

Doug McGowan: 2018 Highway Star of the Year

Doug McGowan, 2018 Highway Star of the Year Doug McGowan submitted no fewer than 101 resumes, but not one fleet had called him back. It just didn’t make any sense.

Joanne Millen-Mackenzie: 2016 Highway Star of the Year

Joanne Millen-Mackenzie is a woman on a mission. Many missions. A shortcut through a single hall at the Truck World trade show has to be completed in a series of…

Guy Broderick: 2015 Highway Star of the Year

What a Guy! The 2015 Highway Star of the Year is a three-million-safe-kilometer award-winning driver and former Ontario Road Knight who tirelessly advocates for the industry he’s loved since his teen years.

Michael T. (Motor) Rosenau: 2014 Highway Star of the Year

“Hello, Central Casting? Send over One Big-Hearted Trucker” The 2014 Highway Star of the Year is Michael T. “Motor” Rosenau, an owner- operator “willing to give you the shirt off…

Brian Bertsch: 2013 Highway Star of the Year

One of the first things you must know about 2013 Highway Star Award Winner Brian Bertsch is that his wife, Debbie, never knows when he’ll be home because “he always…

Stephen McGibbon: 2012 Highway Star of the Year

One wintry afternoon in 2009, Dave Morrow, a co-owner of Oak-Bay-NB-based Milltown Trucking, went on a snowmobile trip from which he never returned. Morrow was an experienced sledder and native…

Reg Delahunt: 2011 Highway Star of the Year

Reg Delahunt gets behind the wheel of a cherry red Lamborghini. It’s not his car. Trucking’s been good to him, but not that good. Moments later he’s behind the wheel…

Cliff Lammeren: 2010 Highway Star of the Year

Growing up in a boy’s home in Montreal, alongside about 200 other young guys with equally unenviable childhoods, the two constants in Cliff Lammeren’s youth were fighting and alcohol. Trouble…

Bud Rush: 2009 Highway Star of the Year

ExpoCam 2009 has come and gone, but it seems to have left smiles on many faces after its three-day run at Montreal’s Place Bonaventure, April 16th through 18th. Both trucks…

Dale Hadland: 2008 Highway Star of the Year

Newcom Media and sponsors join together to recognize Dale Hadland as 2008 Highway Star of the Year. This year’s highwaySTAR of the Year award was open to company drivers for…

Jean-Francis Foy: 2007 Highway Star of the Year

Owner-operator Jean-Francois Foy, who drives for Trois-Rivieres-based Transport J.C. Germain, has put 1.6 million miles on his 1996 Freightliner and expects it to go for at least a half a…

Terry Smith: 2006 Highway Star of the Year

Terry Smith’s very first trip as an owner-operator, some 25 years ago, went exactly as planned. At least in one direction. The drive home was another story altogether. Smith at…

Rene Robert: 2004 Highway Star of the Year

When Rene Robert and his co-driver Cather­ine Maxsom trudged into the Fargo, N.D., truckstop the evening of May 17, 1996, they were so covered in mud and oily goop that…