{"id":39919,"date":"2025-10-01T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hollard-highway-heroes-2025-safety-first-how-abraham-lekgari-stands-out-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:17:04","slug":"hollard-highway-heroes-2025-safety-first-how-abraham-lekgari-stands-out-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hollard-highway-heroes-2025-safety-first-how-abraham-lekgari-stands-out-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollard Highway Heroes 2025 \u2013 Safety first: How Abraham Lekgari stands out on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abraham Lekgari has been driving trucks since 2003. For more than 20 years, he’s made safety his priority, building a disciplined career that is respected in the industry. Now a professional driver for MacDonald’s Transport in Bloemfontein, Abraham knows exactly what it takes to respect the road and deliver on time.<\/p>\n

His careful driving made him a natural fit for Hollard’s Highway Heroes – a national initiative that tracks thousands of truck and bus drivers using telematics. It measures key safety factors such as harsh braking, speeding, cornering, fatigue and breaks, all to encourage safer roads and honour the country’s most responsible drivers.<\/p>\n

Lekgari says that his initial encounter with Hollard Highway Heroes was through MacDonald’s management, who encouraged him to enter the competition. He entered the competition with no expectations and was pleasantly surprised by the outcome.<\/p>\n

In 2024, he placed in the Top 10 of the Hollard Highway Heroes…<\/p>\n

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Abraham Lekgari has been driving trucks since 2003. For more than 20 years, he’s made safety his priority, building a disciplined career that is respected in the industry. Now a professional driver for MacDonald’s Transport in Bloemfontein, Abraham knows exactly what it takes to respect the road and deliver on time. His careful driving made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/HHH_Abe_Lekgari%20.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[2150,2151],"class_list":["post-39919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-bus","tag-bus-accident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/HHH_Abe_Lekgari%20.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}