The North American Truck Writers committee announced the Top 5 Finalists for the 2020 Jim Winsor Technical Achievement Award. The annual award honors products or technologies introduced the previous year that embody innovation, vision, technical achievement, and applicability and benefits for the trucking industry.
The Top 5 Finalists for the 2020 award are:
- Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems Intellipark
- Chevron Delo 600
- Link ROI Cabmate
- SAF-Holland SMAR-te Tire Pilot
- Stoneridge MirrorEye Camera Monitor System
The award will be presented during the Industry Awards Luncheon at the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition on Wednesday February 26, in Atlanta, include:
Each year, a panel of editors representing the industry’s major publications nominates products and technologies and chooses five award finalists and one overall winner for the Technical Achievement Award. This year's Top 5 finalists were chosen from more than 30 new products nominated by committee members.
Sponsored by LaunchIt Public Relations, the Jim Winsor Technical Achievement Award honors the highly respected, long-time truck journalist James W. Winsor, who passed away in 2015. Jim served as editor-in-chief at Commercial Carrier Journal and executive editor at Heavy Duty Trucking. He was also very active in the American Trucking Association’s Technology & Maintenance Council and its forerunner, The Maintenance Committee.
Since 1991, editors from the North American trucking trade press have honored a new product or technology with a technical achievement award. Prior to 2016, the group was made up of members of the now defunct Truck Writers of North America. In 2017, the editors formed an ad-hoc committee to carry on the award, believing innovation and technical achievement in new product development should be recognized.
Jim Park, a contributor to Today's Trucking and Heavy Duty Trucking magazines, currently chairs the North American Truck Writers committee. Technical Achievement Award committee members included John Baxter, freelance technical writer; Tom Berg, Construction Equipment and Land Line; Jason Cannon, Commercial Carrier Journal; Seth Clevenger, Transport Topics; John Hitch, Fleet Owner; James Menzies, Truck News; Jason Morgan, Fleet Equipment; Jack Roberts, Heavy Duty Trucking; Erica Schueller, Fleet Maintenance; John G. Smith, Today’s Trucking; Suzanne Stempinski, Land Line (retired).