INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Work Truck Week® 2023 was again to full power as a verified 14,885 business professionals gathered at Indiana Conference Heart in Indianapolis March 7–10 for North America’s largest work truck occasion. Attendance returned to pre-pandemic ranges, setting a brand new file with a 17% enhance over the 2022 occasion. Inexperienced Truck Summit, NTEA’s full-day superior fuels and car expertise convention, was offered out for the second 12 months in a row, with practically 1,000 attendees.

Work Truck Week, which incorporates The Work Truck Present®, Inexperienced Truck Summit and Journey & Drive, has been produced yearly by NTEA–The Affiliation for the Work Truck Trade since 2000. The occasion was held nearly in 2021.

New Exhibitor Pavilion, returning for the primary time since 2020, and the Work Truck Present exhibit corridor had been full of new business automobiles, gear and expertise from 507 corporations. Because the business’s transition to electrical energy accelerates, a lot of the information popping out of Work Truck Week was associated to electrical automobiles, together with the launch of eight business EVs, in addition to related auxiliary energy options, our bodies and gear. Keen to present potential prospects the chance to expertise their technical developments, 19 corporations participated in Journey & Drive, providing attendees the possibility to drive quite a lot of all-electric and inside combustion engine business automobiles. 

Wanting Again, Wanting Forward

“The work truck business has a protracted historical past of evolving and innovating to maintain the world transferring,” says Steve Carey, NTEA president & CEO. “This was clearly demonstrated at Work Truck Week 2023 the place we had some exhibiting corporations marking enterprise milestones of a century or extra whereas others had been simply getting began. Attendees had been capable of replicate on the place we’ve been whereas trying to the longer term by means of displays and academic programming that includes the motion towards electrification, in addition to the most recent developments in car gear and elements emphasizing productiveness and security.”

Isuzu Industrial Truck of America and Hino Vehicles each selected Work Truck Week 2023 to announce their first all-electric vehicles, Isuzu’s N-Sequence EV and Hino’s M5e and L6e. Mack Vehicles unveiled its first electrical car within the medium-duty phase, the Mack® MD Electrical. Shyft Group revealed the brand new Blue Arc Class 5 All Electrical Crew Cab, whereas Ideanomics and VIA Motors launched the VTRUX®electrical work truck. Workhorse Group pulled the silk from its new W56 zero-emission step van. JB Poindexter & Co enterprise items introduced a number of new merchandise and developments, together with Venture ZEVX, an EAVX, Studying Truck and ZEVX electrical idea, and an all-electric C250 postal truck demonstration car developed by Morgan Olson for Canada Submit. Ram Industrial showcased its new Ram 1500 Battery-electric Car Idea, and Bollinger Motors offered updates on its new B4 all-electric fleet truck. In the meantime, Ford Professional marked the one-year anniversary of the Ford E-Transit all-electric van.

Different product introductions included:

·           Viatec — SmartPx plug-in electrical genset designed to function an alternative choice to gasoline or diesel turbines

·           Volta Energy Techniques — 7,000W/240V inverter and Energy Distribution Hub that combine with each conventional inside combustion engine and EV chassis

·           Parker Chelsea — e910 Sequence and e970 Sequence built-in electrical energy takeoffs (ePTOs) for BEV or hybrid-electric automobiles

·           Secure Fleet — MobileMule AI twin sprint cam that detects and alerts for driver drowsiness, sleeping and extra; Air Vue wi-fi transmitter expertise for the rear of semi-trailers; and FoldPro Shelving

·           Godwin Group — Allied Cell Techniques complete truck monitoring system designed particularly for dump vehicles

·           Lincoln Electrical — Ranger Air 260MPX Multi-Operate Engine Drive

·           Licensed Energy Options — FleetPilot Join telematics for snow and ice elimination fleets.

The Knapheide Manufacturing Firm marked its a hundred and seventy fifth anniversary at Work Truck Week with a heritage show of automobiles from its previous alongside its present truck physique lineup.

NTEA Annual Assembly

On the affiliation’s annual assembly, held as a breakfast on March ninth, David Scheitlin, director of operations at Holman—Manufacturing & Distribution (Roanoke, Indiana), was put in as 59th Board chair of NTEA. He accepted the place from instant previous Board chair Tina Albright, vice chairman of human relations & security at Truck Our bodies & Gear Worldwide Inc.—TBEI (Lake Crystal, Minnesota), a subsidiary of Federal Sign Company (Oak Brook, Illinois).

In his remarks, Scheitlin additionally launched the NTEA’s 2023-2024 Board of Administrators, together with the board’s government committee.

[For a full list of the new board members, as well as selections from Scheitlin’s acceptance speech, visit David Scheitlin to Serve as 59th NTEA Board Chair.]

Scheitlin then welcomed the assembly’s keynote speaker, Robert Herjavec, entrepreneur, writer, and star of the TV sequence Shark Tank.

Born in Japanese Europe, Herjavec escaped communism within the former Yugoslavia and emigrated to Canada. From delivering newspapers and ready tables to launching a pc firm from his basement, his drive to realize led him to create a greater life for himself and his household. “Nothing I ever do in my life shall be as arduous as what my father did for me,” Herjavec mentioned about his household’s early struggles.

It was his time working at an Avis rental automotive dealership (the place he met and received to know firm founder Warren Avis) that he got here to embrace entrepreneurship. Avis, he mentioned, taught him that the maxim “it is not what you already know, it is who you already know,” is only a delusion. The true secret to enterprise, he mentioned, is in delivering worth to your prospects.

That quest to ship worth led him into expertise. After constructing and promoting a number of IT corporations, he based Herjavec Group in 2003, and it shortly turned one of many world’s largest, privately held cybersecurity companies. 

Later that very same fascination with entrepreneurship led him to Shark Tank. He talked about a number of offers made on the present, some profitable, some not. Via all of it, Herjavec mentioned the actual indicator of an entrepreneur’s future succes is the eagerness they’ve for his or her enterprise—no matter that enterprise is perhaps.

“If you may get right into a enterprise that you just’re enthusiastic about,” Herjavec mentioned, “and you’re employed arduous, that is the best nation on this planet to reach.”

WTW24

For extra particulars about these and different bulletins made throughout press conferences at Work Truck Week, go to worktruckweek.com/protection

Attendees who bought a Inexperienced Truck Summit or Work Truck Week Convention Bundle can entry on-demand academic content material by means of April 15 by logging in to their WTW23 Planner at wtw23.mapyourshow.com/8_0/login/login.cfm and choosing On-demand.

Work Truck Week returns to Indiana Conference Heart March 5–8, 2024. Signal as much as obtain electronic mail updates in regards to the occasion, together with when registration opens within the fall, at worktruckweek.com/wtw24signup. 



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