{"id":79001,"date":"2026-03-17T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/?p=79001"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:32:59","slug":"tmc-honors-four-with-silver-sparkplug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/tmc-honors-four-with-silver-sparkplug\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC Honors Four with Silver Sparkplug"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"79001\" class=\"elementor elementor-79001\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35c1ed59 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"35c1ed59\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-957e817 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"957e817\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Council Recognizes Outstanding Contribution to Industry with Highest Award<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44ad376e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44ad376e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Nashville \u2013 Today, American Trucking Associations\u2019 Technology &amp; Maintenance Council honored four professionals with its highest honor \u2014 the Silver Spark Plug \u2014at the opening of TMC\u2019s 2026 Annual Meeting &amp; Transportation Technology Exhibition.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cThe Silver Spark Plug is given to individuals who demonstrate professional excellence in commercial vehicle maintenance as our industry\u2019s highest honor,\u201d said TMC Executive Director Robert Braswell. \u201cOur winners this year represent the highest level of expertise and ability in our industry. We are pleased to recognize them with this award.\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>This year\u2019s honorees are: Scott Bartlein, Truck Fleet Management; Taki Darakos, PITT OHIO; Mark Zachos, DG Technologies; and Jack Legler, TMC\/ATA.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cTMC\u2019s members keep our industry moving, and these four individuals represent the highest level of the professional excellence the council strives for,\u201d said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. \u201cMore than half of the 8.4 million people employed by the trucking industry do something other than drive a truck, and without them, our nation\u2019s goods would not be delivered to our stores, hospitals, and factories. These individuals are examples to all of us in this industry, and we are proud to honor them with this award.\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>\u201cThe Silver Spark Plug honors TMC members who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to improving our industry,\u201d said TMC General Chairman &amp; Treasurer Radu Mihai, corporate fleet manager, BURNCO Rock Products. \u201cI congratulate all these winners for their achievement and commitment to the ideals of TMC.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a3761e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a3761e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trucking.org\/news-insights\/tmc-honors-four-silver-spark-plug-1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">American Trucking Association<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council Recognizes Outstanding Contribution to Industry with Highest Award Nashville \u2013 Today, American Trucking Associations\u2019 Technology &amp; Maintenance Council honored four professionals with its highest honor \u2014 the Silver Spark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":79006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,7,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-trucking-association","category-latest_news","category-utsnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ATA-american-Trucking-Association.png","acf":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnNG3-kyd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79001"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79164,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79001\/revisions\/79164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mi4.dev\/utsdev1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}