{"id":48510,"date":"2025-11-16T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48510\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:17:41","slug":"pair-of-ups-drivers-from-jacksonville-are-named-trucking-industry-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48510\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of UPS drivers from Jacksonville are named trucking industry ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two Jacksonville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/local\/2021\/12\/14\/truck-driver-shortage-fscj-effort-double-cdl-courses\/8851976002\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:truck drivers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">truck drivers <\/a>were selected for the Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/plan-limit-speed-large-trucks-173753325.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trucking;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trucking<\/a> Association&#8217;s Florida Road Team that serves as industry ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members are selected based on their driving record, community involvement, regulatory expertise and public speaking skills. They educate the public on safe driving techniques and how to safely share the road with trucks, according to the association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two Jacksonville drivers have worked for UPS for seven years:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Jacksonville truck drivers Miguel Sanchez, second from left, and Demetrius &quot;Dee&quot; Hastings, fourth from right, were selected for the Florida Trucking Association's Florida Road Team that serves as industry ambassadors;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"701\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/031156cdf5dce38c20eeb728fe512088.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville truck drivers Miguel Sanchez, second from left, and Demetrius &#8220;Dee&#8221; Hastings, fourth from right, were selected for the Florida Trucking Association&#8217;s Florida Road Team that serves as industry ambassadors;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Miguel Sanchez, a 24-year professional truck driver, in 2025 was Florida\u2019s Truck Driving Championships grand champ and won the national championships&#8217; Twins class. He is a Bible group leader and basketball league announcer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatrucking.org\/floridaroadteam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:floridatrucking.org\/floridaroadteam;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">floridatrucking.org\/floridaroadteam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">bcravey@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4109<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/15\/florida-trucking-association-selects-2-jacksonville-ups-drivers-as-ambassadors\/87274786007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Trucking Association selects 2 Jacksonville UPS drivers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida Trucking Association selects 2 Jacksonville UPS drivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Jacksonville truck drivers were selected for the Florida Trucking Association&#8217;s Florida Road Team that serves as industry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31257,31262,31260,116,118,117,31258,31259,31261],"class_list":["post-48510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-community-involvement","tag-deequot-hastings","tag-florida-road-team","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-public-speaking-skills","tag-regulatory-expertise","tag-truck-drivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}