10-4 Magazine October 2022

64 10-4 Magazine / October 2022 Each sponsor award recipient is given a plaque with a photo of their truck along with an envelope with $250 inside. This year Kendon Holdaway, Program Administrator for the Kidney Foundation, presented the awards. Around 70% of all recipients donated their cash money straight back to give to the Kidney Foundation. I had the honor of coming up front to help present the 10-4 Magazine sponsor plaque and give a short speech about how, as a group of us, we decided to re-implement the handing out of $2 bills. Co-founder of 10-4 Magazine, Erik Sieben, was a regular attendee and avid supporter of this show, and each year he would hand out $2 bills to the kids in attendance. We wanted to keep this tradition going and, with crisp $2 bills in hand (just the way Erik liked them to be), I handed them to all the kids at the awards ceremony. Gets a person choked up to be told that people have their $2 bills they received in year’s past, still folded in their wallets. We will continue this every year going forward as a tribute to Erik so his memory will always live on at this event. There is always a lot of anticipation for the biggest award – the Competitor’s Choice. I can admit that I got choked up, the same as I did last year when Eric Gibbons of EMH Transportation won, because this year’s winner acted the same. With a shocked look on his face, Dylan Badders of DTB Trucking of Parowan, UT and his 1994 purple and black Freightliner cabover, won this year’s Competitor’s Choice award, and when he received his envelope with the cash award enclosed, he never looked inside and just handed it back to the announcer. There was $3,000 in that envelope, and this is one of the many reasons I am honored to be a part of this industry I am so passionate about. Thank you to Sunne Wallace and the crew at the Great Salt Lake Truck Show for being so welcoming to all the attendees. I look forward to seeing everyone next year at the 34th annual show August 4-5, 2023 in Lehi, UT! This year, a total of 110 trucks were in attendance, which was the show’s biggest turnout to date. Each year, the trucks look better in the sun, but conversations had are always better in the shade! As always, to all the drivers out there doing the deal, truck safe. n