Attendees at this year’s Great American Trucking Show will find new attractions, as well as Overdrive’s Pride & Polish show truck championship, Partners in Business seminars and Trucker Talent Search sing-off finals.
The show will be held Aug. 25-27 in Dallas, Texas, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center, and attendance is free for owner-operators and truckers who register online prior to the event. Click here to register to attend.
New to the show will be a Discovery Pavilion and additions to the Health Pavilion. The Discovery Pavilion will give attendees the chance to test out products, view product installations and learn more about products and equipment.
New to the Landstar Health and Wellness Pavilion this year will be U.S. Department of Transportation physicals conducted by AccuScreen for $59, as well as free sleep apnea screenings provided by the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund, a nonprofit that helps drivers whose medical problems have led to financial hardship. The pavilion also will provide an opportunity for attendees to register as bone marrow donors, give blood and receive a mammogram. Free screenings will include urinalysis, blood pressure, vision, nutrition evaluations and more.
Also at the GATS Community Tailgate will be free truck parking provided by TA-Petro. Free roundtrip shuttles will run regularly from the truck parking lot to the convention center and back. The lot also will feature food vendors, showers, restrooms and a worship service on the Sunday after the show.
Returning to GATS this year will be the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition, where three finalists will compete Friday, Aug. 26, at 3:30 p.m. in the GATS Theater. Trucker and recording artist Tony Justice, the event’s emcee, also will perform at the competition.
