OAM awarded to Ron Crouch

The Australian Trucking Association has congratulated Ron Crouch for being named in the 2021 Australia Day Honours List.

Mr Crouch, who founded Ron Crouch Transport with wife Beverly in 1978, was awarded with a medal of the Order of Australia for his service to the community and the road transport industry.

Ron was a proactive member of industry associations and groups and had a vision for improving industry safety. In the 1980s he played a key role in the formation of the National Transport Federation, which later evolved into NatRoad.

ATA Director and Executive Director of Ron Crouch Transport, Geoff Crouch, said his father had an overall desire to give back.

"Something Mum and Dad instilled in the company from day one was a passion to give back to society – not just to the road transport industry but the wider community too," he said.

"It all started from the huge risk they took commencing operations in 1978, with one truck carting hay and stock. That passion to give back was part of the company's original DNA and continues now to the second and third generation involved with the company today.

"The entire company and our family are extremely proud of the work that Dad has done, and this honour is due recognition of the huge amount of volunteer work he has put in over many decades."

Now retired, Ron Crouch has been actively involved in many volunteer groups in his hometown of Wagga Wagga, NSW.