Work Truck Week 2022 returns to Indianapolis

North America’s largest work truck event will return in person to the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis on March 8-11, 2022, with an expanded format, new branding and a familiar keynote speaker.

After hosting a virtual event this year, NTEA, the association for the work truck industry, is adding a more robust online component and officially rebranding its annual industry gathering as Work Truck Week. During the 2022 event, The Work Truck Show exhibit hall, Green Truck Summit and myriad other offerings will be featured throughout the week, including the NTEA annual meeting with keynote speaker Mike Rowe.

Educational sessions and the Green Truck Summit begin March 8, and the exhibit hall is open March 9-11. Registration opens in October at worktruckweek.com.

The 2022 annual meeting keynote speaker has devoted his career to promoting hard work and the people who do it. Best known as the “dirtiest man on TV,” a title he earned hosting the hit TV series “Dirty Jobs,” Rowe is one of Work Truck Week’s most popular speakers, having first addressed a sold-out crowd in 2009.

Rowe returns to the stage on Thursday, March 10, to share the surprising lessons he learned while working as an apprentice and talk about opportunities that exist in the most unlikely professions.

Rowe is also the founder and CEO of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity that debunks myths and misperceptions about the trades and helps close the skills gap in today’s workforce. He currently stars in the discovery+ series “Six Degrees,” hosts “Somebody’s Got to Do It” on TBN and won an Emmy for his work on Facebook’s series “Returning the Favor.”

Tickets for the annual meeting will be available for purchase when registration opens in October.

Work Truck Week includes product displays, education and multiple networking opportunities to help bring the industry together. The large exhibit hall encompasses offerings from all commercial vehicle industry segments, including chassis, bodies, aerial devices, snow and ice control equipment, accessories and components. Green Truck Summit features intensive programs led by industry experts and fleet managers covering clean energy trends for commercial vehicles and operational insights for vocational truck fleets. As part of the 2022 educational program, thought leaders and industry experts will share strategies to help attendees improve efficiency, implement best practices and grow their operations.

A full event schedule will be released in the weeks ahead.

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