The Executive Committee of TRSA’s Board of Directors recently approved the nomination of Tom Watts, president, Prudential Overall Supply, Irvine, CA, to receive the association’s highest honor, the TRSA Operator Lifetime Achievement Award. Watts will accept his award during the Annual Awards Dinner on Sept. 19, in conjunction with TRSA’s 106th Annual Conference in Boston.

Watts’ 44-year career at Prudential began even earlier when his father, Mel, a Prudential route salesman, asked his son to help make deliveries after a major California earthquake in 1971. By 1975 the younger Watts had begun working as a Prudential route sales trainee. He ...