QTA Names Inaugural Members of Les Ambassadeurs de la Route.

MONTREAL [January 31, 2001] – It’s an idea too good to keep under wraps. With a little help, and blessings, from the Ontario Trucking Association, The Quebec Trucking Association has just launched a program similar to OTA’s successful Road Knights Team. The QTA began its search for a team of ambassadors in late 2000, and today announced the names of ‘Les Ambassadeurs de la Route’.

Eight professional drivers were selected from a field of 15 short-listed candidates, each of whom was required to make a short verbal presentation, and then sit for an interview with a selection committee comprised of seven judges. The panel included Quebec’s deputy transport minister, Jean Couture; Donald Pouliot, directer of commercial vehicle enforcement at La Sûreté du Québec, and Madame Louise Guimond, vice-president of commercial vehicle safety at Société de l’Assurance Automobile du Québec (SAAQ).

Diane Cloutier, QTA’s director of compliance management said she was both excited and terrified for “her drivers” as they awaited their interviews. “Most of these guys have never even spoken to the to anyone on our panel of judges, yet here they were: going one-on-one with some of the top officials in our enforcement and regulatory community,” she says. “But I think I was more nervous than they were.”

Official duties for the team won’t begin until March, with training set to begin later in February.

Les Ambassadeurs de la Route – 2001
Jean Beaulac, Transport Jacques Auger;
Sylvain Bélisle, Tranforce;
François Blouin, Transport Forestville;
Pierre Brousseau, Groupe Robert (Boucherville);
Rock Gauvin, Transport S.A.S. (Drummondville);
Patrick Gervais, Transport Henri Dion;
Jean-Yves Gingras, Transport Cabano-Kingsway;
Pierre Martel, Camionnage GHL.

For more information, contact Diane Cloutier
Association du Camionnage du Québec
info@carrefour-acq.org
(514) 932-0377