EDMONTON, Alta. — Linda Gauthier, Executive Director for CTRHC, received the 2003 Award of Achievement during National Transportation Week.

To receive the award the candidate must have achieved, through his/her innovation and initiative on a particular project or program, positive and measurable improvement of significant and enduring benefit to transportation.

Since joining Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council in 1995, Gauthier has been involved in developing and delivering train-the-trainer workshops, facilitating focus groups and in developing essential skills profiles and occupational analyses for a variety of occupations within the trucking industry.

She has also been responsible for the development of skills upgrading training programs for professional truck drivers, and the development of distance learning programs for owner-operators and dispatchers.

The CTHRC is an incorporated non-profit organization with a volunteer board of directors of stakeholders from the Canadian trucking industry. The mission of the Council is “to assist the Canadian trucking industry to recruit, train and retain the human resources needed to meet current and long-term requirements.”