MILWAUKEE DRIVER NAMED 2003 WISCONSIN ROAD TEAM MEMBER

Timothy Penkert, a Milwaukee resident, has been named to 2003 Wisconsin’s Road Team.

The Road Team consists of five outstanding professional truck drivers who travel throughout the state promoting highway safety.  Their sponsor, the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association (WMCA), created the Road Team in 1988 to help improve highway safety, promote professionalism in the industry and improve the trucking industry's public image.

Tim has been a professional truck driver for 18 years and has worked the last seven as a city driver for Roadway Express, Oak Creek, WI. Tim has never had a crash or violation during his career.  He was a member of the 2001 Wisconsin Road Team and enjoyed is so much he wanted to do it again. Tim enjoys of road mud racing, boating on the Wolf River and working on his classic Mustang in his free time. Tim lives in Milwaukee with his two children.

As a Wisconsin Road Team member, Tim will talk with civic organizations, high school drivers education classes, truck driving groups, safety forums and media people about highway safety and the trucking industry's importance to Wisconsin's economy.  In 2002, Wisconsin's Road Team visited with over 15,812 driver-education students in over 254 schools throughout the state, discussing how to safely share the road with a truck and emphasizing general highway safety tips.

If anyone would like to talk to your group, please contact Sue at the WMCA office in Madison at (608) 833-8200 ext 12 or sfwebb@witruck.org.