For The Best Food Truck In South Jersey Poll (sojo1049): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the SoJO 104.9 food truck poll is and who runs it

The For The Best Food Truck In South Jersey Poll is a single-question fan vote run by WSJO, the radio station better known on air as SoJO 104.9. The station serves the Atlantic City, New Jersey market and programs a pop music format for listeners across South Jersey. Unlike the multi-category readers choice ballots common in this state, this programme asks exactly one question: which food truck do you love best in South Jersey?

The vote runs at sojo1049.com, inside WSJO's own web presence, with no third-party voting platform involved. The page is titled Vote for the Best Food Truck in South Jersey, and it sits alongside the station's other listener features, including its concert calendars and its Seize the Deal auction. That placement matters for supporters: the poll is a piece of the station's editorial calendar, promoted to its existing audience rather than to a national voting site's traffic.

The vertical is best-of, supporters cast a straightforward public vote, and the ballot costs nothing. The key facts are gathered below.

The dated record: which editions ran and when voting falls

The poll has a long confirmed history for a station-run ballot. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. That is seven editions across eight calendar years, with 2021 the only gap in the run. A poll that has survived that many summers is a settled part of the station's seasonal programming, and the next edition would be expected in 2026.

The voting window falls between June and August in each cycle. That summer placement fits the subject: food truck season in South Jersey peaks when the shore towns are full, and the station's page sits next to its summer concert calendars and shore coverage. The station leaves the precise opening day and closing day unstated ahead of a cycle, so those dates have to come from the live page.

Two other facts are also not published in advance. The station's ballot page does not carry a list of voting categories beyond the single food truck question, and it prints no rule on how often one person may vote and no eligibility requirement. A supporter who wants the current truck lineup, the exact window or any repeat-voting rule has to read the live page on sojo1049.com, which is the one place the station publishes the poll.

How a supporter votes in the food truck poll today

Voting is deliberately simple because WSJO runs the ballot on its own domain. A supporter opens the Vote for the Best Food Truck in South Jersey page on sojo1049.com, reads the question, which food truck do you love best in South Jersey, picks a truck from the list and submits the vote. There is no nomination round, no bracket and no separate platform to navigate; the whole process happens on one page owned and operated by the station.

Because the host is the station itself rather than a national voting service, the page carries the station's navigation and advertising alongside the ballot. Supporters scrolling the page will see the station's other features, such as its 2026 Atlantic City concert calendar and its auction, around the poll. The vote is free, and the page does not display a login step or a registration form before the ballot.

The one thing a supporter cannot plan from the page alone is timing. The June to August window is the confirmed pattern, but the station keeps the current cycle's opening day and closing day off the page, and the truck lineup appears only on the live page. A supporter who wants to vote should therefore check the page directly during the summer rather than relying on a remembered date from a previous edition.

How this poll sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

South Jersey's best-of scene is crowded, and this poll is the smallest and most focused entry in it. Where the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice and the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards run dozens of categories across whole regions, the SoJO 104.9 poll asks one question about food trucks and nothing else. That focus is its appeal: a truck competes on a single ballot against a handful of peers, not in a field of hundreds.

The comparison with the Best of Jersey Shore Contest is the sharpest, because both programmes court the same summer shore audience. The shore contest is a broad multi-category ballot; the WSJO poll is a single food truck question on a radio station's site, with a June to August window that matches the shore season. The Best of New Jersey and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice cover food from other angles, and Bergen & Morris Top Dentists shows how far the state's best-of format stretches beyond restaurants.

For a food truck owner, the practical difference is audience. WSJO's ballot reaches the station's own pop-radio listeners in the Atlantic City market, a defined local crowd, while the newspaper-backed ballots reach wider but shallower fields. Winning here is a hyperlocal claim.

Strengthening support for your truck in the WSJO poll

A truck campaigning in this poll is asking its own customers to take one extra step: open the sojo1049.com ballot page and pick your name. Because the ballot is a single question on the station's site, the ask is short, and the June to August window means your summer counter traffic, shore events and festival appearances are all natural moments to make it. Put the poll name and a link on your truck's window, your social accounts and your receipts while the window is open.

WSJO has not published a rule about outside vote help on this ballot page, which means the station's position on purchased or automated votes is unknown. That cuts both ways: nothing printed forbids it, and nothing printed permits it. The safe reading for any organizer-run ballot is that the organizer's own terms govern, and a campaign that looks padded with irregular activity risks the result. For tactics that stay inside a public ballot's normal behaviour, start with our votes guide, and check the live page before the window opens.