State
of TWNA
Welcome New Members
Banquet report
New Marketing Committee Formed
Member News
The State Of TWNA
TWNA now has 152 members, with many of the new members having
joined the organization during the Mid-America Trucking Show.
If you have not already paid your dues, please contact Tom Kelley
to do so, as well as to update your directory listing.
Welcome New Members
Please welcome the following new members to TWNA:
Gary Bricken -
American Graphics Group
Sue Dickens - Canadian Trucking News
Katie Dodd - Parthenon Publishing
Jennifer Edwards - Freightliner Group
Lyndon Finney - The Trucker
Steve Foster - American Graphics Group
Kim Jarmer - Freightliner Group
Phil Madsen - On Time Media
Amy Sills - Freightliner Group
Todd Spencer - Land Line
John Sponholtz - Old Time Trucks
Gerry Thompson - Freelance
Jeffrey Simonis - Freelance
Banquet Report
A total of 194 people attended the recent TWNA Communications
Award Banquet held at the Mid-America trucking Show. Special
thanks to David Kolman, DK Communications, for emceeing the
event. Also thanks to Derek Smith - Peterbilt, Jamie Jones -
Land Line, as well as Tom Kelley and Regina Murtagh - The Deadline
Factory, for
their hard work and efforts on this year's banquet.
The TWNA Communications
Awards were presented at the banquet. There were over 100 entires
submitted, 59 of which won awards. For a complete list of the
winning entries, visit the Communication Awards Press Release
page (click here).
For additional background, visit the Communication Awards page
(click here).
The Lifetime Achievement
Award was presented to Paul Abelson of Land Line and Road King
magazines. For complete details, visit the Lifetime Award page
(click here).
Eric Berard, Bomart
Group, presented the Technical Achievement Award to Carrier
Transicold for its Deltek hybrid diesel electric technology.
For complete details, visit the Tech Award page (click
here).
New Marketing Committee Formed
Derek Smith of Peterbilt, has agreed to head up a TWNA marketing
committee to review ways to expand TWNA's industry presence
and grow its membership. Other committee members are: Tom Berg
- Newport Communications; Eric Berard - Bomart Group; Tom Kelley
- The Deadline Factory; and Denise Rondini - Kona Communications.
If you are interested
in joining the committee please contact Derek
via e-mail. If you have any ideas of things TWNA can do to expand
its marketing efforts, please contact one of the committee members.
The committee will hold its first meeting on May 25 at 11 a.m.
EST.
Member News
Roxane Campbell Rose, TWNA board member, has been named executive
director of Trucker Buddy International. She replaces Ellen
Voie, who resigned in January.
"The search
was long, but well worth it, and I am real excited about where
Trucker Buddy is now and where it is going in the future,"
Don Nehring, Trucker Buddy president, said of Rose's appointment.
"With the hiring of Roxane, our board is one of the most
impressive boards in any industry. Roxane's energy and excitement
is contagious, and we all look forward to working with her."
Rose brings to the
position 15 years of professional experience in trucking as
well as a number of years of volunteer work in the non-profit
sector. She was one of the founders of rpm magazine. Since leaving
the magazine in 1997, Rose has worked for the marketing department
at Great Dane Trailers as well as writing occasional articles
for Motor Truck and the Arkansas Trucking Report, a publication
of the Arkansas Trucking Association. She also sits on the Board
of Directors for the Truck Writers of North America,
of which she has been a member since the early 1990s.
