Detroit Radiator Corporation wins 2015 Richard Crane Memorial Legend Award

Brian Miller-DRC Driver w Jayden GohlDetroit Radiator Corporation has received the 2015 Richard Crane Memorial Legend Award, at the 20th Annual Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show in St. Ignace.

The award criteria, which often varies from year to year, is not based on eye appeal only; rather the value behind the company and the truck.

While exhibiting at the show, Brian Miller, DR·COOL Driver, and Craig McClain, National Sales Representative, both of Detroit Radiator Corporation, invited the 2015 Richard Crane Memorial Jr. Grand Marshal, Jayden Gohl and his parents, Tim Gohl, of Canton & Lauren Gohl, of Plymouth, to ride in DR·COOL, Detroit Radiator Corporation’s award-winning show truck, for the exciting “Parade of Lights.” This scenic convoy travels through beautiful St. Ignace, over the five-mile Mackinac Bridge and back.

“We just knew that we had to have two Legend Awards this year. Because of Brian Miller, Craig McClain and Detroit Radiator Corporation’s generosity, they not only made Jayden Gohl’s day, they reminded us of what the Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show is all about. A great family oriented caring event for one and all to enjoy,” says Fran Crane Bernard, Co-founder of Richard Crane Memorial Foundation, President of International Trucking School, and daughter of the late Richard Crane.

“Receiving the 2015 Richard Crane Memorial Legend Award is a real honor. It’s a privilege for us to be included among some of the best companies in the trucking industry,” says Randy Pruitt, CEO of Detroit Radiator Corporation. “Our team demonstrated that we are not only a company that excels at what we do, but more importantly, we are a company with good people, and for this I am happy.”

More on Jayden

Jayden was diagnosed at 20 weeks gestation with severe Hydrocephalus (he over produces Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) in the ventricles of his brain and he can’t properly absorb the fluid) and with only half of a heart (his left chamber was so small, and his aortic arch was so narrow, that oxygen and blood may not be able to reach his limited brain tissue). Jayden was not expected to live and his parents were handed information on abortion and Hospice. If delivered alive, an immediate ventricular-peritoneal shunt implant, followed by three consecutive heart surgeries were to take place.

JaydenOn July 3, 2008, he was born 5.5 weeks premature via c-section. He weighed almost 7lbs, but his head alone weighed 4.5 lbs. Sadly, Jayden’s entire head was filled with CSF, with only 10% brain tissue and only 50 percent of his heart formed. More tests began immediately, and miraculously, his APGAR score (taken 5 minutes after birth) came in at 9 out of 10.

More miracles came on the next day, when heart surgery was no longer required as Jayden’s heart completely formed over night, and his aortic arch opened up on its own. Jayden also survived his first brain surgery, but was not expected to develop nor live a normal life, and was given a devastating life expectancy of 3-6 months.

In 2010, an MRI revealed that Jayden’s brain had completely formed. Jayden began to take his solo first steps in 2012.

Today, Jayden is an amazing, 7-year old, little fighter, who lives with non-curable Hydrocephalus, requiring a surgically implanted, ventricular-peritoneal shunt. He is post 7 brain surgeries and attends 3-6 weekly therapy sessions. Jayden will require additional brain surgeries throughout his life.

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