ProPickup Truck Expo set

Feb 7, 2012

Updated Feb 14, 2012

The ProPickup Truck Expo, a new trade show that showcases pickups and accessories used in construction, trucking, landscaping and other industries, will run Aug. 23-25, as part of the Great American Trucking Show at the Dallas Convention Center.

The Expo will run concurrent with GATS in an adjoining exhibition hall, and will be produced by Randall-Reilly’s ProPickup magazine, in conjunction with the Randall-Reilly Events Group.

“The ProPickup Truck Expo will give attendees the opportunity to talk with manufacturers whose products make pickups more efficient and better performers on and off the road,” says Dan Tidwell, senior vice president and group publisher of the Randall-Reilly Construction Media Group.

In addition to hundreds of aftermarket automotive products and vehicles on display, the Expo will provide educational seminars called SmartSessions headlined by industry leaders and experts in the automotive aftermarket.

“Our SmartSessions will cover a wide range of topics of interest to pickup owners, from how to increase fuel mileage to setting up the mobile office to spec’ing out their next new pickup,” said Bruce Smith, editor of ProPickup.

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