At the recent 2008 Annual Meeting of the Newmarket Business Association, Brian Maloney, Owner & President of Middlesex Truck & Coach, was presented with the Association’s Outstanding Service Award.

The award is given annually to the member of the organization who has consistently given of themselves to make the Newmarket area a better place in which to do business.

Herb Clifford, Chairman of the NBA Public Affairs Committee, spoke at the event and outlined some of Brian’s many accomplishments. Below are excerpts from his remarks…

“For the past 3 years, the Newmarket Business Association – at our annual meeting - has honored a member for outstanding service.

This award is presented to a member who has exhibited many years of untiring and devoted service to the objectives and the principles of the Newmarket Business Association and it is my pleasure to announce…and to introduce to you… the 2008 "Outstanding Service Award” recipient - - Brian Maloney.” “Most of you know how influential Brian has been to the success of the Newmarket Community and I’d like to touch on a few additional things here this evening.

First of all – Brian lives in Brookline with his wife, Sandy. A graduate of Georgetown University with an MBA from Boston College, Brian’s destiny would have appeared to take him far from the world of truck repair. As things happen, however, Brian’s hobby was car repair and after college he began helping out his brother with his company, Middlesex Auto Body, in Cambridge.

Shortly thereafter, in 1967, Brian bought the auto body business from his brother. He grew the business, moving away from automobile repair and into heavy equipment repair, until in 1980, the business outgrew its Cambridge location and Brian made the big move to Newmarket.

In those days, Newmarket was slightly less than the busy industrial area of today.  He fondly remembers his first meeting with Marvin Gilmore, who had taken on the mantle of cleaning up the area. It was Marvin who assured Brian that things were getting better every day…”

“Brian joined the Newmarket Business Association. He became an active member and Chairman of the Contributions Committee. Back then, being chairman of that committee was “a lonely job” as Brian would put it …because, as a relatively new organization, the NBA set aside only Twenty-five hundred dollars of dues each year to give to local charitable organizations and… as Brian would continuously remind members - that didn’t go very far.

In 1999, at Brian’s urging, the NBA held its first charitable fundraiser specifically to raise funds for the Association to donate back to the community. That event was very successful with a lot of help from Brian’s wife Sandy and many of his employees. That year the NBA raised seventy five hundred dollars. Each year, Brian has pushed us to set our goals higher and higher, culminating in this year’s fundraiser, the 9^th Annual, that raised over thirty two thousand dollars, to be donated to local non-profit and charitable organizations in the area.

While his work with the NBA proved fruitful, his business also flourished. In 1986, Middlesex Truck was named the recipient of the prestigious Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award. In giving this award, the Chamber talked about Brian’s commitment to hiring employees from the surrounding neighborhood and his efforts to make the neighborhood a better place.

Brian continues to work to make the neighborhood a better place and his commitment to the area is steadfast. He now works in the business with his son, Brian Jr., who shares his father’s passion for the continued success of the Newmarket industrial area. “