Can Trust the American People to Serving America Safely. The company s trailer doors have drawn favorable comments from many points across the nation. Most say they are impressed and sometimes even shocked that a publicly-held company would use such valuable space to promote highway safety among the country s driving public, rather than their own services. It was Sheridan Garrison s idea originally to begin putting slogans on the AF rear trailers. American Freightways has always strongly promoted highway safety in various ways from its extensive driver training programs to consistent equipment safety examinations.
Safety is a topic that benefits everyone.
Carl Thomas, AF s vice president for security and safety, said he has always known the one simple task people can do to save the largest number of lives along the highway is to take three seconds to buckle their safety belts when they get behind the wheel. Nothing anyone can do could preserve more lives. Among those commenting on AF s safety slogan program was Jennifer Wilson from Louisville, Kentucky. The mother and businesswoman was taking her young son to dinner one evening in that city when they happened upon an AF truck bearing a buckle up slogan. She said that while her son already was buckled into his seat in their Jeep, she realized she still needed to buckle herself in.