The wait is over: the Mid-America Trucking Show is back.
The 52nd annual show opens Thursday at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, and features:
- more than 850 exhibitors in 1 million square feet of exhibit space
- the PKY Truck Beauty contest
- Big Rig Build Off competition
- dozens of educational presentations by industry experts
- a free concert
- truck and tractor pull competition
- a free truck parking community
The show begins Thursday with a VIP opening from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and concludes with an after-show reception featuring music, food, Wall of Fame induction, craft beer, and a bourbon tasting.
One of Thursday's highlights will be the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Truck Leasing Task Force meeting. This begins at 10 a.m. in the South Wing Conference Room, C 108.
Other educational sessions include:
- Noon: FMCSA's New Modernized Registration System Update and Fraud Prevention
- 1:15 p.m. Hauling Success: Insights from Rate Per Mile Masters
- 1:15 p.m. Don’t Gamble with Fleet Safety: Secure Your Bottom Line with Data-Driven Excellence
- 2:15 p.m. Fight Inefficiencies With Trucker-Specific Technologies
- 2:15 p.m. Carriers – Stay Alive and Thrive
- 3 p.m. Truckload Market Update
- 3:30 p.m. How Vehicle Maintenance Effects a DOT Audit
- 4 p.m. Overcoming Driver Shortage Challenges
- 4:15 p.m. How to Attract, Recruit, Retain, and Manage Gen Z for your Driving Workforce
- 5 p.m. Predicting the Future of Sustainable Trucking – How Alternative Fuels, Connectivity, and Automation Will Influence our Industry
- 5 p.m. Best Fleets to Drive For: What’s Working and What’s Not
The opening reception begins at 6 p.m. in the South Lobby.
The evening concludes with a truck light show at 8 p.m. in Lot N in front of the West Wing.
Friday features the free concert featuring Tony Justice and The Steel Woods in Freedom Hall. Show hours Friday are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The show concludes Saturday with the MAC Trailers Winter Nationals Championship Pulling event, also in Freedom Hall. Saturday the show runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
