Ever-tightening environmental regulations, high fuel prices and continuing pressure to improve productivity amid a shifting supply chain will force ever greater changes to equipment over the next 10 years. How truck, trailer and engine makers will deal with those realities will be discussed during the SuperSession panel, “Tomorrow’s Trucks and Trailers,” held Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, beginning at 11 a.m., at the Dallas Convention Center.

Moderated by Jack Roberts, executive editor of CCJ, Overdrive and Truckers News magazines, the panel will feature:

• Jeff Jones, vice president, sales and marketing, Cummins, Inc.
• Ben Smith, manager, product strategy, Freightliner Trucks
• Craig Bennett, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Utility Trailer

Each panelist will present an overview of his perspective on how equipment will evolve over the next decade, followed by moderated discussion, including questions from the audience.

“One of our goals is to continue to offer the highest-quality content possible to GATS attendees,” says Alan K. Sims, vice president and executive director of the Randall-Reilly Events Group. “The SuperSession is one of more than 18 educational sessions held during GATS Truck Smart Summit.”

The second annual SuperSession kicks off the Great American Trucking Show, which opens at noon on Thursday. The session is sponsored by Shell. Those interested in attending the SuperSession and the Great American Trucking Show may register online at www.gatsonline.com. All registered GATS attendees may attend the SuperSession at no charge.

About Randall-Reilly

Founded in 1934, Randall-Reilly (www.rrpub.com) is the premier U.S. media and information company focused on the trucking and construction markets. The company’s trucking division serves the fleet, owner-operator, recruitment, truck stop, pre-owned truck and trailer, dealer and heavy-duty aftermarket segments. Randall-Reilly’s construction division covers the highway and heavy construction, landscaping and used equipment markets.

Randall-Reilly’s Equipment Data Associates business is an industry-leading collector and aggregator of equipment purchase and financing data, which it offers to its customers in industrial equipment end markets for sales lead generation and market intelligence. Randall-Reilly has offices in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Chicago, Charlotte, N.C., and New Berlin, Wis.