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EpicVue CEO Lance Platt; Pottle’s
Transportation’s Brian Snell; TCA Highway
Truck Safety Angel Spokesperson and Nashville
recording artist Lindsay Lawler
Program

Funding

tag me in a post saying ’Look at what I
saw on Facebook’ or ’Look at this story’
The Arkansas Commercial and we’ll end up reaching out to them
Truck Safety and Education instead of them being nominated.”
Program has begun its next After word spread on social media,
application cycle. EpicVue, a satellite premium TV provid-

APPLICATIONS WILL er for semi-trucks offered sponsorship
BE ACCEPTED to reward the heroes of these Highway
MARCH 1 – MAY 31, 2019 Angel stories.
Hall said tuning in to watch the
Super Bowl or your favorite team while
out on the road can make a cab feel
more like home and when EpicVue
donated TVs to the prize package, they
recognized that Highway Angels like
ers, fellow truck drivers and trucking Brian Snell deserve the comforts of
executives), must send in documen- home when they go above and beyond
tation, such as police reports, time- to keep our roads safe to deliver our
stamps of the event, the city in which freight.
APPLICATIONS WILL BE the event occurred, and the company However, he’s been reluctant to
AVAILABLE AT: for which the driver is employed. The accept recognition because most of his
ardot.gov/ACTSEP.aspx driver also answers questions regarding life has been dedicated to serving oth-
— or — the incident. ers. And when pressed, he asserts that
Arkansas Commercial Truck Safety When asked about how the pro- he didn’t stop to help that motorist on
and Education Program gram has grown in the last twenty-two June 8 in hopes of being recognized; he
c/o Arkansas Department of Transportation
Program Management Division years, Hall emphasized the big impact did it because that’s what he believes
P. O. Box 2261 social media has had on Highway Angel. everyone should do.
Little Rock, AR 72203-2261 “With the growth of social media net-
— or — works and how everyone can snap a pic- EPIC ANGEL
Arkansas Department of Transportation ture or send a text, that is kind of how When he was nominated for TCA’s
Central Headquarters we’re evolving.” Epic Angel of the Year program’s highest
10324 Interstate 30, Room 503
Little Rock, AR 72209 The program has a Facebook page honor, Snell jokes that they had a dif-
where members can leave a message ficult time tracking him down because
Telephone: (501) 569-2481 or post thanking an Angel even when he wouldn’t return their calls. Finally,
Fax: (501) 569-2623 they don’t have all of the information Pottle’s Transportation insisted he speak
Email: LFPA@ardot.gov
they need to formally nominate. So with the representative. TCA even had
APPLICATION DEADLINE: many motorists and other truck driv- to inform him that he won in advance
MAY 31, 2019 ers have been assisted but never caught to make sure he showed up at the TCA’s
the name of the helper. This is just 81 Annual Convention in Las Vegas
st
another way those who benefited from to accept his award — which is typi-
a driver’s kindness can give them the cally announced during the ceremony.
thanks the driver deserves. “We try to Epic Angels are chosen from the pool
track them down as much as possible,” of each year’s Highway Angels nomi-
says Hall, with Lindsay Lawler adding nees — which are the VIPs to each year’s
“sometimes I’ll have drivers that will event. TCA narrows the list down to the

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