UPS News Retired Overnite Safety Manager Roy Terry Dies
RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roy M. Terry, a champion of road safety for more than half-a-century,
first with the Virginia State Police and later with Overnite
Transportation Company, died early this morning. He was 83.
A decorated law enforcement and safety official, Terry spent 35 years
with the Virginia State Police. He retired with the rank of Captain,
having reached the department’s mandatory
retirement age of 60 in 1983. Within in a month, he was working as the
Safety Manager at Overnite, Virginia’s largest
trucking company. He would hold that position for the next 18 years,
winning recognition as one of the strongest and most effective safety
managers in the nation.
In 1992, he served as national chairman of the American Trucking
Association’s Safety Management Council. In
1997, the ATA named Terry its Safety Director of the Year.
“Roy Terry dedicated his life to ensuring
drivers not only knew the rules of the road but practiced them every
day. For those of us who had the pleasure to know him in his work with
Overnite and at the ATA, there was no greater safety advocate and
professional,” said UPS Freight Safety Vice
President Phil Warren.
Terry is survived by his widow Maymie; a son, Roy Jr., and grandson
Andrew, all of Richmond. The family will receive visitors on Sunday,
Dec. 17, from 3 p.m.. to 6 p.m. at Joseph W. Bliley Chippenham Chapel,
6900 Hull Street Road.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, Dec. 18, at 12:30 p.m., at
Central Baptist Church, 1510 Courthouse Road.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be
made to the Parkinson's Disease Research Education and Clinical Center
("PADRECC") of the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center
(804-675-5931), or to the Cemetery Fund of Central Baptist Church
(804-794-8055).
