A Canadian trucker is being recognized for helping a fellow driver who crashed.
The Truckload Carriers Association recently named truck driver Haasanpreet Singh Sidhu a TCA Highway Angel for stopping to pull a disoriented truck driver out of his tractor-trailer after it flipped over in a ditch. Singh drives for Canadian National Transportation Limited out of Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
TCA explains:
Haasanpreet Singh SidhuAt 8:45 p.m. on January 12, while traveling through Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Singh encountered an intermodal tractor-trailer that had left the roadway and flipped over in the ditch.
“I was just finishing my shift and I noticed there was a truck just rolled over in front of me,” Singh said. “There was a lot of diesel spilled; it could turn worse very soon, so I quickly decided to help.”
Singh stopped his vehicle and climbed to the side of the flipped tractor cabin and assisted in extracting the disoriented driver involved in the incident. While climbing up the side of the rolled truck to assist the driver, Singh suffered a minor injury to his leg.
“Yes, it was a bit dangerous, but I don’t know; I just made a quick decision,” he said. “It was my natural instinct to help a fellow driver in need.”
Since the TCA Highway Angel program’s inception in August 1997, nearly 1,500 professional truck drivers have been recognized as TCA Highway Angels for exemplary kindness, courtesy, and courage displayed while on the job. Thanks to the program’s presenting sponsor, EpicVue, and supporting sponsors, DriverFacts and Northland Insurance, TCA is able to showcase outstanding drivers like Singh.
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The TCA Highway Angels website can be accessed at https://www.truckload.org/highway-angel/.
Haasanpreet Singh Sidhu
