CHERRY HILL, N.J. — For J.B. Hunt driver Hawthorne, trucking is a laborious job — literally.

After dropping off his last load of the day in Baltimore, Hawthorne figured he had time for one more delivery.

As the Courier Post reports, the trucker pulled over after being waved down by a frantic man. He walked to the panicked man’s car where in the backseat the man’s wife was in the last stages of labor.

"He went right for it, no hesitation," said the grateful new father David Price. "He just took charge."

Hawthorne delivered Jennifer Lynn Price in three minutes.

Tying the umbilical cord? Hawthorne, reports the newspaper, ripped off a shoestring from a new pair of shoes laying in the back seat of Price’s car.

Shortly after, local police and EMT units arrived to assist and get the new parents and baby Jennifer to the hospital.

You have to wonder if Hawthorne is the world’s most heroic driver or whether he’s a doctor or paramedic moonlighting on the open road.

Not only is this the second baby he’s delivered (the first was at a California truckstop 11 years ago), but over his career, Hawthorne also saved a man from a heart attack and came to the aid of another elderly man who collapsed from heat exhaustion – earning him Highway Angel Award honors in 1999 and 2002.

"I do it because I like helping people," Hawthorne told the Post. "And I do what any normal person that has a conscience and has morals would do."

No doubt that the Prices are eternally thankful.