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.