NNewbury, Ohio – Randy Vaughn, Director of Safety for Newbury-based Distribution Technologies Inc. (DistTech), has been honored as 2005 Safety Director of the Year by the National Tank Truck Carriers (NTTC).

Vaughn was recognized with the title as part of the NTTC’s 2005 Tank Truck Safety Contest for directing DistTech’s award-winning safety program. DistTech earned the NTTC’s Outstanding Performance Trophy for the sixth time in the past two decades.

“Randy has introduced new and innovative training techniques to enhance our safe driving habits,” said Mark Kadlec, Vice President of Human Resources and Safety for DistTech. “Under his guidance, our entire team continues to work diligently to make safety a top priority in everything we do, day in and day out. This honor for Randy is the result of our collective vigilance to remaining safe and accident free.”

Vaughn is the third DistTech safety director to win this prestigious award. Together, they have earned the Safety Director of the Year honor six times.

The annual NTTC Safety Contest honors carriers whose safety management programs produce exemplary results. The Outstanding Performance Trophy is presented annually by Heil Trailer International to the carrier that is judged to have the best all-around safety program in the tank truck industry during the previous year.

With an accident frequency of only .032 per million miles for 2005, DistTech won the Grand Award in the 35-45 million miles class in the Competitive Safety Contest and the Improvement Award in that same mileage category for the Personnel Safety Contest. The carrier also received a 15-year Improvement Award.

In addition to consistently being recognized by the NTTC for fleet safety, more than 53 of DistTech’s drivers have achieved at least one million miles of accident-free miles throughout their driving careers.

About DistTech
Distribution Technologies Inc. (DistTech) is an established industry leader in dedicated contract carriage, common carriage and logistics services and returnable container management, primarily for liquid bulk commodities. Founded in 1932 as Manfredi Motor Transit, DistTech combines a modern, secure fleet with the latest technology to offer customers such value-added services as real-time satellite tracking and communication, electronic load tendering and computerized dispatch. Headquartered in Newbury, Ohio, DistTech operates more than 30 facilities nationwide and has been consistently recognized by the National Tank Truck Carriers (NTTC) for operating one of the country’s safest fleets. For more information on DistTech, please visit www.disttech.com or call 1.800.321.3143.