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Ex. SEC-11-GM-008 Organizer notice Confirmed from a secondary source

LandLine Truck Shows 2021 Outlook

Great American Trucking Show (GATS)

Randall-Reilly LLC (Tuscaloosa, AL) · Dallas, TX (Organizer)

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Jurisdiction
Dallas, TX · Texas
Level
Organizer
Issued
2021-02-01 Feb. 1, 2021
In force
Feb. 1, 2021 (the notice's date)
Quarters
2021 Q1
Functions reached
  • MK
  • DR
  • HR
  • MT
  • CB
Collection
Logistics, Warehousing and Wholesale SEC-11

Operative words

The same fears and uncertainties that have led entities as diverse as Facebook and Major League Baseball to cancel or severely curtail in-person events have informed a very difficult decision: Randall-Reilly is canceling the Great American Trucking Show, scheduled for Aug. 27-29, 2020. This decision has been made with the health and well-being of all participants first and foremost in mind. (GATS website, Apr. 29, 2020)

The organizer's notice

LandLine Truck Shows 2021 Outlook

Notes

2020: Cancelled; four components (Small Fleet Champ, Partners in Business, Pride & Polish, Trucker Talent Search) run as a virtual GATS. 2021: In-person show cancelled (announced Sept. 2020): 'as we head into the fourth quarter of 2020, we are no more certain about the potential to hold a successful, large-scale in-person event than we were when we canceled the 2020 show'; virtual GATS only; the show did not return. Usual dates: Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center; late August (2020: Aug. 27-29); held annually since 1999. Scale: 22nd annual edition planned for 2020 (Land Line); attendance figure not read in a source. Venue orders 2020: TX-021, TX-022, TX-008, MET-DFW-005. Venue orders 2021: TX-023, TX-025, TX-029. Also cancelled by this notice: Shell Rotella SuperRigs (working-truck beauty contest, 38th annual in 2020) (Rotating host city (last in-person edition July 2019), VARIOUS; usual dates June-July; 2020 edition judged virtually with winners announced Sept. 14-18, 2020 during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week). Also cancelled by this notice: Wheel Jam Truck Show (17th annual in 2020) (Huron, SD; usual dates First weekend of June (2020: June 4-7; 2021: June 3-6); venue orders 2020: SD-001, SD-005).