MISSISSAUGA, ON — The Canadian-made-and-designed Supercube, a slice of ingenuity created for Walmart by Mississauga-based Trailer Design Industries (ITD), is among the six finalists for the Truck Writers of North America 2013 Technical Achievement Award.

Other finalists include:

• Allison’s new TC-10, an automated transmission with a torque converter; 
• Truck-Lite’s LEDs;
• Fuller’s Advantage Series Transmission;
• Mack’s Twin-Y suspension;
• Daimler’s DT12 Automated Manual transmission.

The winner will be announced in March, at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, KY. 

Each year at the show, Truck Writers of North America (TWNA) presents a Technical Achievement Award to a new product or service that exhibits clear innovation and that has, according to TWNA “a wide applicability in the trucking industry, offers significant benefits, and is widely available. While complete vehicles are not eligible, components and systems are.”

The very first Technical Achievement Award was presented in 1991 to Grote Industries for its red LED marker light. Most recently, the award went to the Meritor FueLite 6×2 axle with Meritor WABCO Electronically Controlled Air Suspension (ECAS). 

TWNA is a 25–year-old organization of writers, editors, freelance journalist, public relations and communications specialists, sales and marketing personnel and others involved in the business of producing information related to the world of commercial vehicles.