Trinity Transportation takes great pride in being selected as the Best transportation company for 2012 according to the Michigan Meetings and Events Magazine.

Every single winner in the annual Readers’ Choice Best Of award campaign is hand-picked by the meeting planners, event planners and suppliers who read Michigan Meetings + Events magazine.

The Best Of awards are designed to honor the cream of the crop in the regional meetings and events industry. Readers determine the winners— every vote in each category is influential and important.

The awards are a celebration of the hard work and above-and-beyond service of suppliers who help planners be at the top of their game. Once the votes are tallied, the top nominees are notified, and the winners are kept secret until the Best Of Awards party and announced in the magazine’s special Best Of issue.

-Courtesy of the Michigan Meetings and Events Magazine.

Featured below is Angel Collins and Austin Arksey accepted the award on behalf of Trinity Transportation.

Sainte-Claire, QC, April 26, 2012 – The saying “good things come in threes” can be applied to Trinity Transportation Group, where the focus is threefold: providing modern vehicles, an outstanding safety record, and the best transportation value in Michigan and beyond.

Trinity, a premier transportation company providing coach charter service to the eastern half of the U.S. from its southeastern Michigan headquarters, got its start over 30 years ago as a sedan and van service provider.

Its line of vehicles expanded through the years as motorcoaches and school buses were added. Today over 300 Trinity vehicles are plying the roadways of southeastern Michigan, including three 2012 Prevost H3-45 coaches that bring the coach fleet to 29, the majority of them Prevost.

General manager Tracy Akers explained that when current Trinity president Jerry Sheppard launched the company’s coach division in 2000, he sought a “superior product” to build the fleet. That made the choice of Prevost an easy decision. The Prevost coaches have lived up to expectations, carrying tour and group passengers that include numerous school, sports, and seniors organizations to destinations throughout the eastern half of the United States.

Trinity’s location near Detroit also brings in corporate business and high profile entourages—including press corps—that accompany political visitors to the area.

The family-owned and operated organization has experienced steady growth since Jerry Sheppard acquired it in 1995. Today it boasts over 500 employees, a new dispatch office with a 24/7 digital dispatch system, and luxury motorcoaches equipped with state-of-the-art GPS tracking systems. Trinity has also developed and implemented an extensive, two week long certified driver training program that all of its drivers, new or experienced, must complete.

With its top-quality fleet and attention to detail, it’s easy to see Trinity successfully sailing through the next three decades.

Trenton Police Round Up Middle School Students for Trip to Comerica Park

The Trenton Police Charities in conjunction with Boyd W. Arthurs Middle School have selected 16 students at random to attend a Detroit Tigers game at Comerica Park.

The Trenton Police Department is rounding up several middle schools students to take them on a trip to see the Detroit Tigers play the Kansas City Royals on April 30.

Students were selected at random to enjoy a free game at Comerica Park complete with food and beverages.

The Trenton Police Charities created the trip.

Chief Nardone said the Tigers organization supplied the department with 30 tickets and he and two other officers, Officer Mike Hawkins and Sgt. Mark Enright, decided to donate more than half of the tickets to students who may have never seen a Tigers game before.

Trinity Transportation in Wyandotte donated a coach bus for the trip. The bus is capable of seating all 30 participants and it even has a bathroom.

Jerry Sheppard, president of Trinity Transportation, said the donation is for a very good cause.

He added donating transportation is not uncommon for the company.

“It’s not something out of the oridinary for us to help out with causes for those that are less fortunate like kids who’ve never seen a Tigers game,” Sheppard said. “If we have the availability and we are able to do it, and it’s in the budget, we will always try to give back,” Sheppard said.

Enright helped arrange the bus and food and also arranged for the students to be welcomed to the park on the new 6000 square-foot score board, which was installed before the start of the season.

Tracey Kersten, a counselor at Arthurs, helped select the students for the trip by creating a raffle in which students could submit an application of sorts with their name and one sentence as to why they want to go to the game.

There was no cost to enter the raffle and 16 students were selected for the trip.

“A lot of students wrote they wanted to go because they thought they could watch and pick up some tips for their game,” Kersten said.

The remaining tickets will go to Trenton police officers and parents who will be chaperoning the trip.

Students will board the bus at 5:30 p.m. in front of Arthurs Middle School.

“We have to thank the Detroit Tigers and Trinity Transportation for helping us out, and of course the Arthurs staff,” Nardone said.  “Mark Enright and Officer (Mike) Hawkins were instrumental in putting this together as well as Mrs. (Tracey) Kersten and Mrs. (Stephanie) O‘Connor over there at the middle school. They put this together in a hurry. They did a good job.”

Nardone added he believes there could be more trips to Comerica Park for Trenton students in the future.

By Nate Stemen

Trenton Patch

April 28, 2012