{"id":36634,"date":"2024-10-26T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36634"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:24:46","slug":"postal-services-driver-of-the-year-award-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/10\/26\/postal-services-driver-of-the-year-award-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service\u2019s Driver of the Year Award Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Carter-Scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36635\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Carter-Scott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Carter-Scott.jpg 495w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Carter-Scott-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Carter-Scott-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carter Scott<\/strong>, winner of the Postal Service\u2019s Driver of the Year Award, has walked \u2014 or rather driven \u2014 the talk and then some.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in safety,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer operator for the Suburban Processing and Distribution Center in Gaithersburg, MD, has had no preventable incidents since he began his career as a USPS driver in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Scott\u2019s win was made at the recent National Postal Forum, where\u00a0<strong>Kelly Abney<\/strong>, who recently retired as chief logistics officer, accepted on his behalf. The driving ace will be officially presented with the award at his workplace.<\/p>\n<p>USPS nominees for the award must have driven 15 years, or 100,000 miles, without a preventable incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drive the postal vehicle just as I drive my personal vehicle,\u201d Scott said. \u201cMy intention is to return home each day to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Scott, winner of the Postal Service\u2019s Driver of the Year Award, has walked \u2014 or rather driven \u2014 the talk and then some. \u201cI believe in safety,\u201d he says. The tractor-trailer operator for the Suburban Processing and Distribution Center in Gaithersburg, MD, has had no preventable incidents since he began his career as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36636,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634\/revisions\/36636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}