The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association and PowerTorque magazine are once again searching for a star. We are are looking for a Rural Transport Rising Star for 2024, and the award will be presented at the LRTAQ/ALRTA Combined Conference in Toowoomba on March 21 2024.
The Rural Transport Rising Star Award was inaugurated to shine the spotlight on and encourage the best in the young people who are working the rural trucking industry and driving it forward into the future. This is an annual initiative to celebrate and reward the young people building the rural transport industry of the future.
Like many sectors of the economy, the rural trucking sector is crying out for bright new entrants into the industry. The award is designed to highlight young people currently working in many roles in this sector, creating change and improving the industry, to demonstrate the possibilities for other young potential entrants into our industry.
This year’s winner was Amy Throckmorton who works as an Operations Manager forTGR Transport in Geelong, running a fleet of company trucks and subcontractors hauling various loads around the country. She was presented with the Rural Transport Rising Star award at the recent joint Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association/Livestock and Rural Transporters of Western Australia event, after demonstrating a talent for getting the job done as an operations manager.
“I like the fact that the Rural Transport Rising Star award is going to highlight the fact that we’re an industry that needs new people coming through in lots of different areas ,” said Amy. “We only highlight truck drivers and you don’t see all the behind the scenes people that may handle things like scheduling. You don’t see the three am ridiculous phone calls, or any of that.”
If you know someone like Amy who is doing great things and deserves recognition please enter them for RTRS 2024.
The entry criteria are simple:
- Entrants to be under 35 years.
- Will be working in a rural area or involved in rural transport
- They do not need to be a member of an industry association, but need to be nominated by an industry association member.
