Landstar presented its BCO Lifetime Achievement Award to Landstar Three Million Mile Safe Driver and Landstar Roadstar® recipient Duane Vorst at the 2024 Landstar BCO All-Star Celebration on July 7.

Vorst, who lives in Columbus Grove, Ohio, joined Landstar in 1982. He was named a Landstar Roadstar honoree in 1993. Vorst reached his first million miles of safe driving with Landstar in 1995, his Two Million Mile Safe Driver award in 2008, and was inducted as a Three Million Mile Safe Driver in 2022. Vorst continues to add to his impressive career as an operator for Landstar Inway, Inc. and, to date, has driven more than 3.23 million miles while leased on with a Landstar company without a preventable accident. Vorst also has earned two Landstar Star of Quality awards, and a National Safety Council Driver Honor.

During the award presentation, Landstar President and CEO Frank Lonegro commended Vorst on his commitment to safety. “Thank you for four decades of dedication to Landstar and to exemplifying safety, excellence, and professionalism as you’ve navigated well over 3 million miles,” said Lonegro. “We look forward to many more years and many more miles.”

Of the tens of thousands of owner-operators who have been leased to Landstar during the Company’s history, only 11 BCOs have received this prestigious award.

Landstar’s BCO Lifetime Achievement Award was introduced during the 2012 BCO All-Star Celebration. To be considered for the honor, nominees must be an active or retired Landstar business capacity owner (BCO), Landstar’s term for independent truck owner-operators leased to a Landstar motor carrier, who has been with Landstar for at least 20 consecutive years.

Nominees must be at least a Two Million Mile Landstar Safe Driver and have consistently demonstrated professionalism by developing a positive reputation with regulatory and enforcement personnel, customers, agents and Landstar employees, as well as through industry recognition. The honoree must also be a Landstar Roadstar recipient. The Roadstar designation is one of Landstar’s highest honors for truck owner-operators awarded to the “best of the best” for their high levels of safety, productivity and excellence in customer service.