Sting, Chris Stapleton, puppies and vehicles: ATA MCE 2023 had all of it
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Once I returned from the American Trucking Associations Administration Convention & Exhibition in San Diego final 12 months, I advised readers it might be robust to prime.
This 12 months’s convention in Austin, Texas, might need achieved it.
Financial issues took heart stage, and ATA CEO Chris Spear blasted the Teamsters and others he deemed threats to the business. However the expertise wasn’t restricted to insights gained in classes, interviews and conversations with trucking business professionals such as you.
Sting opened for Chris Stapleton at a Daimler Vans North America buyer occasion at ATA MCE 2023 in Austin, Texas, on Monday.
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I noticed Sting open for Chris Stapleton at a Daimler Vans North America buyer occasion on the College of Texas’ new Moody Middle area, in addition to a set by Ashley McBryde on the convention’s closing banquet.
I ate all of the Texas brisket as I may deal with.
The brisket, cornbread and serrano cheese spinach on the well-known Stubb’s Bar-B-Q.
Colin Campbell/Trucking Dive
I even performed with puppies obtainable for adoption from the Austin Humane Society at a Motive-sponsored petting space close to the expo flooring. (I sadly didn’t deliver one dwelling.)
That is Diamondback. He and different puppies have been obtainable for petting — and adoption — at ATA MCE 2023. What a world.
Permission granted by Austin Humane Society
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