Great American Trucking Show starts today: Here’s how to follow the show

The Great American Trucking Show begins at noon Thursday,. Aug. 22, and will host the Overdrive’s Pride & Polish National Championship, hundreds of exhibitors, equipment and technology displays, celebrity appearances, educational seminars for drivers and owner-operators and more.

Overdrive will be covering all of that and more, both on OverdriveOnline.com and on Twitter.

Below is a list of Twitter handles you can follow to keep up up with the show. You can also follow on Overdrive’s Facebook Page (facebook.com/OverdriveTrucking).

We’ll also be pushing out two newsletters on Friday (instead of the usual one) and a special Saturday edition newsletter filled with show coverage. Click here to sign up for Overdrive’s newsletter list.

Here are the Twitter handles to follow to keep up with the show:

@OverdriveUpdate

@Channel19Todd

@trucknewsjj

@maxheine

@truckersnews_dh

@MarlinJC

@By_Jason_Cannon

@JackRobertsCCJ

Also, you can follow the show on both Facebook and Twitter — or join the conversation — using #GATS.

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As a primer for the show, here’s Overdrive’s already published previews of the show:

10 things to do, see or know for the Great American Trucking Show

Photos: Pride & Polish National Championship competitors square off this month

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