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Miller Transporters Inc, Jackson, MS earned it first Outstanding Performance Trophy for Safety with an accident frequency of 0.300. The cumulative average in 2006 for all of the participants in NTTC's Annual Safety Contest was 0.545.
With an accident frequency of 0.300 accidents per million miles for 2006, Miller Transporters Inc of Jackson, Mississippi, won the Outstanding Performance Trophy in the National Tank Truck Carriers 2006 Tank Truck Safety Contest. This is the first time the chemical hauler has won the prestigious NTTC award.
Miller Transporters was selected from a group of 18 carriers that won the Grand Award in their respective mileage categories for the calendar year. The fleet also is taking home the Grand Award as the winner in the 29 to 36 million miles class in the Competitive Safety Contest, the Grand Award in that same mileage category for the Personnel Safety Contest, and the 24th year improvement award. 
The Outstanding Performance Trophy is awarded annually by Heil Trailer International of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is presented to the carrier that is judged to have had the best comprehensive safety program in the tank tuck industry during the previous year.
Contest judges this year were: Melissa Townsend, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; Alan Roberts, Dangerous Goods Advisory Council; David Heller, Truckload Carriers Association; and Rick Gobbell, Gobell Safety Services.
NTTC conducts four annual safety contests. These include a Competitive Safety Contest in which carriers compete in separate mileage classes; the Safety Improvement Contest in which a carrier competes against its own record for the previous year; a Personnel Safety Contest that is based on injuries per hours worked; and the Outstanding Performance Contest.
For the year 2006, the cumulative DOT accident frequency for participants in the NTTC Annual Safety Contest was 0.545. This average represents a substantial decrease below an average ratio of 0.570 accidents per million miles traveled in 2005. It is important to remember that these figures are for the companies that took part in the safety contest, not for the tank truck industry overall. In the contest year 2005, NTTC had 89 entrants traveling 2.4 billion miles; last year those numbers reflected 95 entrants accumulating 2.55 billion miles.
Awards to safety directors in charge of the winning programs were presented at the NTTC Tank Truck Safety Council annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April. Winning companies will be recognized at NTTC 59th Annual Conference & Tank Truck Equipment Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 7-9.