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Contests and Awards

Truck Driver Photo Contest

2002 Photo Contest Winners

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) is pleased to announce the grand prizewinner of the 6th annual Truck Driver Photo Contest is Larry Fulgham, company driver for Wal-Mart Transportation of Bentonville, Arkansas. The contest, sponsored by S-Line, Inc. and RPM Magazine recognizes talented truck drivers who are also amateur photographers.

Grand Prize Winner:

1st Place WinnerLarry Fulgham, company driver for Wal-Mart Transportation of Bentonville, Arkansas.

Prize: $1,000 + photo featured on the front cover of RPM Magazine

Fulgham, who lives in Stigler, Oklahoma, has been driving for twenty years and is an avid photographer who has repeatedly placed in the top six in the photo contest. He enjoys taking photographs and showing them to friends and his favorite places to shoot while on the road are Monument Valley, Arizona, and Yosemite National Park. His award-winning photo shows lush green hills, pink flowering trees and a perfect blue sky off I-5 near Frazler, California.

2nd Place Winner:

2nd Place WinnerK. Colin Robertson of Salt Lake City, Utah, a company driver for Pride Transport of Salt Lake City.

Prize: $750 + photo featured in RPM Magazine

Robertson originally took this photo on Highway 191 in Moab, Utah as a submission for Pride Transport's calendar contest. Robertson is a self-proclaimed amateur photographer who enjoys driving through and photographing southeast Utah. His winning photo portrays the complimentary colors of his truck in front of a breathtaking sandstone background.

 

3rd Place Winner:

3rd Place WinnerMilo Von Strom of Virginia, Minnesota, Von Strom and his wife are company drivers for Halvor Lines of Superior, Wisconsin.

Von Strom's winning photo shows his white truck against vibrant orange, yellow, and green fall foliage. Both Von Strom and his wife, Laura Thelen enjoy taking pictures while on the road.

Prize: $500 + photo featured in RPM Magazine

 

4th Place Winner:

4th Place WinnerGary Wyatt of Gila Bend, Arkansas, a driver with Kennedy Inc. of Romeoville, IL.

The winning shot is a double exposure that he took sitting on a freeway exit in North Nevada. Wyatt used a flashlight to illuminate the truck against an enormous full moon and a bright blue sky making this one of the most beautiful shots submitted to the contest.

Prize: $100 + photo featured in RPM Magazine

 

5th place Winner5th Place Winner:

Jaime Licon of El Paso, Texas, a company driver for Contract Freighters Inc.

Licon came upon this winning photo quite by accident; he found an old Los Angeles Olympics Cannon camera from 1984 in his truck and took this photo to see if it still worked. To his surprise the camera did work and the photo that emerged shows Licon's red and white truck contrasting with majestic charcoal and white mountains in Mammoth, California.

Prize: $100 + photo featured in RPM Magazine

6th Place Winner6th Place Winner:

Scott Windham of Pecos, Texas, an owner-operator who is leased to Contract Freighters Inc. of Joplin, Missouri.

Windham took the patriotic shot of three rodeo clowns atop a truck during a 4th of July parade in his hometown of Pecos, TX because, he explained, he simply "thought it would work." Windham takes many photos when driving and is especially fond of shooting scenery including mountains and sunsets.

Prize: $100 + photo featured in RPM Magazine

 
 
 
 

In addition to the six primary winners, four honorable mentions ($50 prize each) were awarded:

Honorable Mention:

Crystal Kleweno of Spokane, Washington.

Kleweno, who drives for Hatfield ENT of Spokane, Washington, submitted a photo of firefighters responding to a truck fire that she took at a travel center on Highway 80 in Iowa. The photo's bold, bright colors and crisp lines intrigued the judges.

 

 

 

 
 

 

Honorable Mention:

Ian G. Narita of Grovetown, Georgia.

Narita is a company driver with KLLM Transport of Jackson, Mississippi, who took a photo of his truck at a service station in Troutman, North Carolina. The photo brings the viewers attention to the interesting vertical and horizontal lines created by the trucks fueling at the service bay.

 

 

 

Honorable Mention:

Kendra D. Synnestvedt of Eddington, Maine.

Synnestvedt, who drives for R.E.M. Transport, Inc. of Calais, Maine, submitted a well-composed photo of her truck under a low railroad bridge. She explained that she took the photo after realizing that her only way out of a railroad tie loading yard was under the small bridge, which her stacks barely cleared.

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention:

Diane Wood of Elgin, Illinois.

Wood, a company driver for Bitterroot International of Missoula, Montana, took a photo of her two dogs in the window of the truck she and her boyfriend team drive. It was not until after the photo was taken that Wood realized one of the dogs was waving, she titled the photo "Hi There."

 

 
 
 
 
 

Please visit the websites of our contest sponsors: S-Line, Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based manufacturer of cargo control products, and RPM Magazine.