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Record Crowds Attend 52nd Annual NTEA Work Truck Show
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he National Truck Equipment Association held its Annual Work Truck Show at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Ind., on March 1 to 4. This year’s event, which marked the 52nd National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Convention, attracted the largest attendance on record for the show. The event featured more than 500,000 sq. ft. of exhibit hall space filled with the latest vocational trucks, vans, equipment and services presented by hundreds of exhibiting companies along with a variety of industry focused educational and training sessions held throughout the course of the show. Many of the industry’s leading manufacturers selected the show as an ideal format to unveil their new product launches focused on vocational trucks and transportation equipment from Classes 1 to 8, including chassis, bodies, components and accessories. In addition to the NTEA Work Truck Show, the Green Truck Association (GTA), an NTEA affiliate division, conducted its Green Truck Summit. With a number of special events and receptions, both the Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summit offered outstanding opportunities for attendees to meet with sales and technical representatives and industry peers in a variety of structured and casual settings. The educational sessions covered a range of topics including an industry overview and market trends, courses geared toward fleet and maintenance management, methods for improving productivity and profitability and the latest advances in truck design and telematics. During the president’s breakfast and NTEA annual meeting comedian and former host of the Tonight Show, Jay Leno served as the keynote speaker and Matthew Wilson, chairman and CEO of Switch-N-Go, AmeriDeck & Bucks Divisions of Deist Industries Inc. was installed as the 52nd president of NTEA. Wilson accepted the position from immediate past president Jeffrey Messer, presisee NTEA page 36
(L-R) are Roger Orlandi, regional sales manager, IMT; Jim Hasty, general manager, IMT; Amy Brownlee, director of finance, IMT; and Tom Wallace, sales manager, IMT.
John Ruppert, general manager of commercial vehicle sales and marketing of Ford, discusses the all-new Ford F-Series super duty.
Craig Hefright of KH Industries demonstrates several cold weather applications for his company’s cord reel stations.
Tyler Jones (L) and Norm Klimko stand ready to answer questions about the many snow and ice control products in the Fisher Plows booth, including this XLS snowplow.
Mark Miller (L), director of marketing, and John Berlowski, national sales manager of Hiniker Snowplows, Mankato, Minn., display their new three-section trip steel edge torsion trip scoop 8 to 9 ft. (2.4 to 2.7 m) plow system.
Doug Hauck, TBEI VP of distribution sales, reviews the Rugby aluminum titan prototype showcased at NTEA 2016.
Srikanth Padmanabhan, vice president engine business of Cummins Inc., introduces several new product innovations at the show, including the company’s latest in the B series medium duty engines, the 2017 B6.7 vocational L9 engine.