A-1 Auto Transport Annual Scholarship

1. Scholarship Details - Currently Accepting Submissions For 2023
2. Important Dates
3. Who Decides The Winner?
4. I Submitted My Essay, Now What?
5. How Much Is The Scholarship?
6. Who Is Eligible?
7. How Do I Apply?
8. Essays 2020
9. Winners 2018

Scholarship Details - Currently Accepting Submissions For 2023

*A-1 Auto Transport will NOT share, sell, rent or otherwise transfer any student information.

Important dates:

Last date to apply for the scholarship program is August 25, 2023.

Winner Announcement Date: September 25, 2023

Who decides the winner?

Essays/articles shall be posted on our website with content attributed to the author and linked from this page, to be voted on by the A-1 Auto Transport Scholarship committee. The A-1 Auto Transport scholarship committee will be announcing the winners on our website at the end of August 2023 The winners will also be notified via email. Applications will be taken on a rolling basis.

I submitted my essay, now what?

Once you submit, we recommend you get the word out -- let all of your friends and family know about this scholarship and share the link to your essay with them on your social media.

How much is the scholarship?

Three awards worth $1,000, $500, and $250 will be awarded under the A-1 Auto Transport Scholarship every year. The scholarship will be sent directly to the school/university/college’s financial aid office.

Who is eligible?

Any current, full-time, part-time student of an accredited or non-accredited institute, truck driving school or other logistics program, must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 to become eligible. There is no requirement of minimum age.

How do I apply?

A minimum of a 1000-word essay/article that has NOT been published online anywhere else is required to be submitted for consideration for this scholarship. Send an email with your full name, contact information and the name of the school you will be attending as well as a link to your essay or article to [email protected]. Common conversation starters might include:

• vehicle shipping services
• moving cars overseas
• enclosed/covered auto transport
• doortodoor car transportation
• classic car transport services
• motorcycle moving
• TL & LTL freight transport
• state to state moving
• overseas moving
• etc.

Essays 2020

1. An Appetite for Building Community - Submitted by Hannah Hook on 5/16/2019
2. Getting Your Car Ready for Transport - Submitted by Alexis Sturrock on 4/26/2019
3. Hot August Nights Nostalgia - Submitted by Eliana Ornelas on 4/3/2019
4. How Cars Reflect the Times - Submitted by Matt McIntyre on 4/5/2019
5. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION & INCOTERMS – LOGISTICS VALUE CREATION - Submitted by Samuel Owusu on 4/18/2019
6. Getting Your Car Ready for Transport - Submitted by Alexis Sturrock on 4/26/2019
7. An Appetite for Building Community - Submitted by Hannah Hook on 5/16/2019
8. A National Crisis No One is Talking About - Submitted by Vinay Cardwell on 12/20/2019
9. Transporting Memories, Relieving Hardships - Submitted by Nina C. Dixon on 07/19/2019
10. Oceans Full of Memories - Submitted by Jayla Puckett on 20/08/2019
11. Cars of Military Families - Submitted by Brighton E. Moore on 21/08/2019
12. Not Just a Car - Submitted by Kristina Emery Johnson on 02/09/2020
13. Transportation as sequel to Death - Submitted by May El Zein on 07/10/2019
14. Transnational Transport - Submitted by Husam Mohammed on 19/10/2019
15. Abstract - Submitted by iman nur Abdi 29/10/2019
16. Florida, Here they come! - Submitted by Maximillian Morise on 21/11/2019
17. The Marvellous Indian Trucks - Submitted by Areeba Masroor on 02/12/2019
18. SHIPPING CARS OVERSEAS: A GREAT FEAT OF TECHNOLOGIES - Submitted by Carlos Ruiz Serra on 11/12/2019
19. Transporting modern cars - Submitted by Elric Thomas Kahler on 11/01/2020
20. A Car Saved My Life - Submitted by Phuongthao Le Hoang on 11/01/2020
21. The Intriguing Future of Motorcycles - Submitted by Elsie McElroy 14/01/2020
22. The Effect of Globalization on the Automotive Transportation Industry - Submitted by Tori Troen on 20/01/2020
23. Vehicle Shipping Services - Submitted by Jared Tinyes on 29/01/2020
24. Motorcycle Moving - the Start of a Great Vacation - Submitted by Linnea Bakos 31/01/2020
25. Always Buckle Up - Submitted by Shahriar Shamim Emil on 01/02/2020
26. Classic cars - Submitted by Brennyn Lewis on 03/02/2020
27. It’s More Than a Truck to Me - Submitted by Moses Uriza on 09/02/2020
28. What’s in a Car? - Submitted by Anashe Barton on 13/02/2020
29. Attacking the Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses - Submitted by Hayden Kirkpatrick on 13/02/2020
30. Building Innovative Engines for the Transportation Industry - Submitted by Austen Yarosh on 20/02/2020
31. The Future of American Roads - Submitted by Trevor Brian Free on 22/02/2020
32. Medicine and Transport; How Domestic and International Freight Transport Saves Lives - Submitted by Kayla Raney on 04/03/2020
33. In the World of Automobiles, Nothing is More Important than Stopping Drunk Driving - Submitted by Joshua Brooks on 04/03/2020
34. Journey to the West - Submitted by Sofia Tkachenko on 03/05/2020
35. The Dangers of Distracted Driving - Submitted by Karthikeyan Malmurugan on 06/03/2020
36. Challenging times for the global auto industry - Submitted by Antonio Bolaños Álvarez on 08/03/2020
37. More Than a Career - Submitted by Karlie Abernathy on 09/03/2020
38. Overseas Vehicle Shipping: Helping Us Give Back - Submitted by Noah Schaber on 09/03/2020
39. More than a Sideshow: Getting Hyphy in the Bay Area - Submitted by Erin Reid 09/03/2020
40. Safety Concerns of RoRo Vehicle Transportation - Submitted by Maifarah Lyana Anthonijsz on 09/03/2020
41. How Clean Are Electric Vehicles - Submitted by Erik Cruz on 09/03/2020
42. Classic Car Transporters…Let’s Keep ‘em Rollin - Submitted by Donna Kain on 09/03/2020
43. Vehicle Transport Service - Submitted by Madeline Urban on 09/03/2020
44. The future for the automotive shipping industry - Submitted by Joseph Kawiecki 10/03/2020
45. Improving Human Resource Partnerships in the Auto Transportation Industry - Submitted by Steven Able 10/03/2020
46. My Guiding Principal of LTL - Submitted by Taylor Malina on 10/03/2020
47. Moving the Mover - Submitted by Steven Mi 10/03/2020
48. What Does It Really Take to Move? - Submitted by Kay Villarreal on 10/03/2020
49. The first 15 years of my life - Submitted by Morgan Danielle Sweere Treece on 10/03/2020
50. The transportation industry in America - Submitted by Emma Tellier 10/03/2020
51. America’s moving industry - Submitted by Jack Russell on 10/03/2020
52. What self-driving trucks mean for the future of transportation - Submitted by Kristina Emery Johnson on 10/03/2020
53. Overseas Automobile Shipping - Submitted by Dawn Petersen De Soto on 10/03/2020
54. How To Make Your Move A1 - Submitted by Taylor Hill on 10/03/2020
55. A Man’s True Best Friend - Submitted by Shashank Balaji on 10/03/2020
56. Toxic relationship , passionate relationship - Submitted by Faith Williams on 10/03/2020
57. The People Behind Transportation - Submitted by Margaret Bugera on 10/03/2020
58. Long Distance and Short Distance Vehicle Shipping - Submitted by Kristina Emery Johnson on 10/03/2020
59. You see stuff, I see treasures - Submitted by Monet Goines on 10/03/2020
60. The world at the touch of a button - Submitted by Elizabeth Kubista on 10/03/2020
61. Tips on Moving through Vehicle Shipping Services - Submitted by Indira Placide on 10/03/2020
62. Moving Day Anxieties - Submitted by Sherry Nguyen on 10/03/2020
63. Options all across the globe - Submitted by Fayth Dean on 10/03/2020
64. How Technology Will Change A-1 Auto Transport in 5 years - Submitted by Julia Valeria Lopez Rojas on 10/03/2020
65. Life is a highway - Submitted by Amber Bormann on 10/03/2020
66. One Small Village - Submitted by Ruchir Baronia on 10/03/2020Winners 2019 - Congratulations!
67. $1,000 prize: "Transporting Cars, Transporting Memories" submitted by Cameron Munford
68. $500 prize: "The Woes of Agricultural Inspections" submitted by Teresa Fox
69. $250 prize: "Transporting Classic Cars" submitted by Cheslin Jacobs

We will be contacting the winners so they can claim their scholarships soon. Thanks to everybody who participated, if you didn't win this year feel free to try again next year. Submissions for next year will be opening soon so stay tuned and keep checking the website for updates!

Winners 2018

1. $1,000 prize: "Comedy in cars" submitted by Warren Alphonso
2. $500 prize: "Moving Internationally" submitted by Esme Crocker
3. $250 prize: "Keep on Trucking: Reducing our Carbon Footprint" submitted by Akudo McGee