The winners of the 2005 Truck-Lite Trophy, symbolic of the National Championship of the National Association of Show Trucks (NAST), are: 1st Place – Pierre Cinq-Mars, Ontario, Canada;
2nd Place – Bo Trout, Tecumseh, Mich.; 3rd Place – Neil Finegan, Jr., Litchfield, Mich.
After two years with the same trucks in podium positions, the race for the 2005 Truck-Lite Trophy brought in new faces. It resulted in some of the tightest competition in Truck-Lite Trophy series history. Series winners were determined at the last show of the season.
A former mechanic and logger, first-place winner Cinq-Mars now hauls wood products and industrial equipment. He is leased to Muskoka Transport, Bracebridge, Ontario. His winning red 2002 Western Star truck is adorned with 313 Truck-Lite lamps, a mural of a maple leaf on the hood and a Canadian lynx on each side.
Truck-Lite Trophy runner-up Bo Trout operates Bogie’s Express, a small fleet transporting aviation fuels to small airports in the eastern U.S. He grew up on a farm, and started his trucking career hauling grain and sugar beets.
Trout’s latest truck is decorated as a tribute to military aviation and the armed forces. The 2005 Kenworth T2000 is muraled with a modern Navy F-14 Tomcat jet fighter on the driver’s side and two World War II aircraft on the passenger’s side, an Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang and a Navy/Marine Corps F4U Corsair.
Finegan’s third-place winning 1974 Peterbilt 352 cabover has just 720,000 actual miles and still has its original Cummins 350 engine. Neil’s truck, titled “Tribal Dance” is decorated with a mural of Native American themes on both sides and back of the bobtail.
All three Truck-Lite Trophy winners for 2005 will be at the 2006 Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., either on display in front or competing in the MATS show out back.
2nd Place – Bo Trout, Tecumseh, Mich.; 3rd Place – Neil Finegan, Jr., Litchfield, Mich.
After two years with the same trucks in podium positions, the race for the 2005 Truck-Lite Trophy brought in new faces. It resulted in some of the tightest competition in Truck-Lite Trophy series history. Series winners were determined at the last show of the season.
A former mechanic and logger, first-place winner Cinq-Mars now hauls wood products and industrial equipment. He is leased to Muskoka Transport, Bracebridge, Ontario. His winning red 2002 Western Star truck is adorned with 313 Truck-Lite lamps, a mural of a maple leaf on the hood and a Canadian lynx on each side.
Truck-Lite Trophy runner-up Bo Trout operates Bogie’s Express, a small fleet transporting aviation fuels to small airports in the eastern U.S. He grew up on a farm, and started his trucking career hauling grain and sugar beets.
Trout’s latest truck is decorated as a tribute to military aviation and the armed forces. The 2005 Kenworth T2000 is muraled with a modern Navy F-14 Tomcat jet fighter on the driver’s side and two World War II aircraft on the passenger’s side, an Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang and a Navy/Marine Corps F4U Corsair.
Finegan’s third-place winning 1974 Peterbilt 352 cabover has just 720,000 actual miles and still has its original Cummins 350 engine. Neil’s truck, titled “Tribal Dance” is decorated with a mural of Native American themes on both sides and back of the bobtail.
All three Truck-Lite Trophy winners for 2005 will be at the 2006 Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., either on display in front or competing in the MATS show out back.
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