Note: The Million Mile Club Awards Program has been discontinued. Thank you to all participants and congratulations to all past inductees!
As our Association is dedicated to the safe operation and maintenance of the transportation industry, we believe that it is of great importance to recognize those professional drivers who have preserved flawless records throughout their careers.
Honorary Million Mile Club™ Member Rick Hanson
In 1992 in conjunction with Truxpo 1992, CAFS held a gathering of the Million Mile Club™ Alumni at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver. It was the Boards’ wish to honor Rick Hansen, “The Man In Motion”, into the MMC, and also have him serve as guest speaker for the function. Rick was inducted as an honorary member of the MMC in 1987 after his cross Nation tour. Rick was planning to attend but had to cancel in the end due to a last minute event. He was much honored to have been given this honorary membership.
Safe Driver Awards Program
CAFS’s Million Mile Club™ is an exclusive group of transportation professionals that exemplify road safety excellence. Each year in October, CAFS held a special Safe Driver Awards Night to honor those elite drivers who have driven one million miles, or twenty years, of steady, (preventable) accident free commercial driving.
Along with a complimentary dinner at the Award’s evening, and induction into CAFS’s exclusive Million Mile Club™, the recipients each received a Melton Leather Jacket in honor of their accomplishments. Each jacket is embroidered with the recipient’s name, the date of induction into the Million Mile Club™, and also included the names of each of the sponsoring companies.
What is a Million Miles?
- Travel around the Earth’s equator 40 times
- Travel to the moon (& back) just over 4 times
- Abbotsford to Vancouver (& back) 12,500 times
Most of us as casual drivers, who commute daily back and forth, and in addition, take an annual vacation and travel long weekends, put on an average of 15,000 kms or 9,320 miles. At that rate it would take the average Canadian approximately 107 years to attain one million miles. Assuming the average driver gets their license at age 16, you would be 123 years old when achieving this accomplishment.
And remember…that is under the premise that you have no accidents! Collectively our MMC™ members have accumulated over 500 million miles, which is equivalent to going to the sun and back, and then returning to the sun! Congratulation to all our past inductees!
