Nominations are now open for the Australian Transport Association’s (ATA) 2024 Craig Roseneder Award for Technical and Maintenance Excellence, with a trip to the United States set to be awarded to the eventual winner.

The award is part of the ATA’s National Trucking Awards, with the winner to receive a fully paid trip to the United States to attend the 2025 US Technology and Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition in Nashvile, Tennessee.

The exhibition is held between March 10-13 and the winner will receive full registration, return airfares, accommodation and $1500 AUD spending money.

“The award is open to any individual who works full-time in the Australian trucking industry for a trucking company, supplier or commercial workshop as a workshop manager, mechanic, or provides support within the maintenance field for heavy vehicles,” ATA Chair Mark Parry says.

“Since 1998 the Craig Roseneder Award has honoured the professionalism and commitment of the men and women who work behind the scenes in Australia’s trucking workshops.”

Past Craig Roseneder Award winner David Roohan says the chance to attend the United States and engage with international industry leaders is an invaluable experience.

“The ability to rub shoulders with people who have 40, 50, 60 thousand pieces of equipment in their fleet is unbelievable,” Roohan says.

“The knowledge you can gain from talking to these people in how they run their maintenance, how they run their people is invaluable.”

Nominations for the award must be submitted before midnight (Canberra time) on August 25, 2024.

The winner of the 2024 Craig Roseneder Award will be announced on Tuesday, October 22 at the Castrol Awards dinner as part of the ATA’s 2024 Technology and Maintenance Conference.

Nominations for the award can be made here.

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