Land Line magazine was honored Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the annual International Automotive Media Awards, a national competition of automotive and other related magazines.

• Senior Editor Dick Larsen won a silver medal for his May 2004 story “For the love of trucks,” an interview of former trucker and U.S. Rep. Mac Collins, R-GA.
• Feature Editor René Tankersley won a silver medal for her story in the February 2004 issue “Cannabis container a pickle for Texas trucker,” the story of a trucker inadvertently pulled into a drug investigation.
• Columnist Bill Hudgins won a bronze medal for his July 2004 piece titled “The highway is my way,” an interview with singer Joey Holiday.
• Associate Editor Mark Reddig won a silver medal for his December 2003/January 2004 story “Got a hankerin’ for the holidays,” a review of some of nation’s best holiday light displays.
• Reddig received a second silver medal for “The biggest tax you never knew about,” in the December 2003/January 2004 issue. That story told of an old tax newly imposed on truckers