Fifth Linde driver inducted into NPTC-Bridgestone/Firestone Driver Hall of Fame

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Murray Hill, New Jersey U.S., May 12, 2003 — Vernon E. Good, who has driven safely for more than 3.5 million miles during a 31-year career with Linde, late last month became the fifth Linde driver inducted into the National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Driver Hall of Fame.

To be elected to the Hall of Fame, which is sponsored by Bridgestone/Firestone, a driver must be an employee of an NPTC member company and have met the minimum qualifications of 20 years, 2 million miles or 50,000 hours of driving without a preventable accident.

"This is the third consecutive year that a Linde driver has been selected for induction into the Hall of Fame," says Fred Kinkin, vice president, distribution and logistics, Linde. "It’s a great honor for Linde and a well-deserved recognition for Vernon, whose professionalism and dedication to safety is reflected in his outstanding driving record."

Good, who is based at BOC’s Lima, Ohio, carbon dioxide (CO2) plant, became a member of the National Safety Council’s Three Million Mile Club in 1998. He regularly transports liquid CO2 throughout the Midwest, logging about 2100 miles a week over the highways, backroads and main streets of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Good credits his safe driving record to the training he received at Linde and observing some basic rules of the road. "I’ve learned never to tailgate," he says, "and never to try to make an exit ramp if I’m traveling at a high rate of speed."

Good was inducted into the Hall of Fame at NPTC’s Annual Education Management Conference and Exhibition in St. Louis, Missouri on April 29.

The National Private Truck Council is the only trade association in North America devoted exclusively to the interests of the private corporate trucking fleet industry and its professional practitioners. NPTC represents a cross-section of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and public service organizations ranging in size from family-owned small businesses and town utility fleets to Fortune 500 global conglomerates.

The Linde Group the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs 46,000 people and had annual sales of some $6 billion in 2002.

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