Trucker Named TCA Highway Angel for Daring Rescue Attempt

April 24th, 2025

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) has named truck driver Mark Campbell, from Jeffersonville, Indiana  a TCA Highway Angel for attempting to rescue a truck driver from his dump truck after it flipped on its side. Campbell drives for ABF Freight out of Fort Smith, Arkansas.

It’s an incredible story: At 2:20 p.m. on March 26, 2025 in West Point, Kentucky, Campbell was driving on Highway 31. He came upon an accident that involved a pickup truck that collided with a dump truck. The dump truck turned over onto its passenger side. Campbell stopped to help and discovered the dump truck driver was trapped inside.

“He was too big to go through the windshield,” Campbell said. “The guy was hurt; he was laying on the passenger door area there.”

Campbell said the truck was spilling oil and coolant, and the engine was starting to smoke. He worried the truck would catch on fire. Two other drivers stopped to help, so the three men worked to get the trapped driver out. Campbell grabbed an ABF strap and the man wrapped it under one arm and they pulled him up to safety.

“We pulled him up on the side of the dump truck,” Campbell said.

The fire department arrived, and took over the scene. As a former Marine and 20-year truck driver, Campbell said he didn’t hesitate to stop to help at the accident.

“If I can help people, I’ll jump out and try to help them,” he said. “I would hope if I was in that situation, they would stop to help me.”

Since the TCA Highway Angel program’s inception in August 1997, nearly 1,500 professional truck drivers have been recognized as TCA Highway Angels for exemplary kindness, courtesy, and courage displayed while on the job. Thanks to the program’s presenting sponsor, EpicVue, and supporting sponsors, DriverFacts and Northland Insurance, TCA is able to showcase outstanding drivers like Campbell.

The TCA Highway Angels website can be accessed at https://www.truckload.org/highway-angel/.