The Annual Truck
Driver Social Media Convention will be held in October this year at Harrahs Hotel and Conference Center
in Kansas City, Missouri, easily
accessible to our nation's professional drivers.
The
Truck Driver Social Media Convention is a gathering of professional CDL
drivers and industry professionals to:
- Address
industry issues of most concern
- Network
together
- Build
both personal and business
relationships
- Create
a trusted community
Last year's convention
(2011) united those within trucking who understood the
importance, impact and value of online
social media as a platform to create positive change, trust, and
awareness among CMV drivers
and also with one another.
It
is an event to unite, pay tribute, recognize, socialize and network,
sharing ideas and solutions for the issues affecting professional
drivers and the U.S. trucking industry. It
is an event where the driver and
those concerned, will have center stage and will be heard as the force
that keeps America moving.
Trucking social media is now changing the
platform on which the American trucker speaks, and those concerned are
listening.
The
Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention is for the professional
truck driver and for those who support them, working together to create
a “Circle of
Trust."
The Power of Trucking Social
Media
- Founding
principal of the Annual
Truck Driver Social Media Convention
Although
much focus has been placed on the struggles and hardships of the
professional truck driver's lifestyle, many more positives are
accomplished through trucking social media as well. As
Social Media has grown, positive
change seekers within
the industry have joined together to discuss thoughts, ideas and
solutions that will best meet the needs of our nation's drivers and the
industry.
Their
understanding and desire to build relationships through honesty, trust
and transparency is creating a
“Community of Trust” for quality
information, products, and services they may provide.
Social
media assisted hundreds of
abandoned Arrow Trucking drivers when the company suddenly shut down in
2009. Trucking social media
brought ideas, concerns and
solutions to the forefront as the FMCSA built the new CSA initiative. Those involved with social media
within the industry are in
active communication with Congress and Senators in order to assure that
the voices of the American driver is heard. For
the first time in many years, through trucking social media, drivers
are helping drivers, and those concerned are getting involved.
The
lifestyle of the professional truck driver prevents many from being
able to become actively involved with driver issues. It is up to those
who are involved in trucking, through the power of social media, to
assure that their voices are heared.
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Through out the
convention,
drivers will have the opportunity to actively participate by sharing
their thoughts, concerns, ideas and solutions to what they perceive as
the most pressing issues facing truckers today. Afterwards, through the tools of social
media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, articles, blogs,YouTube, talk shows
and many others . . . those
involved within the trucking social media community will have the
opportunity to take with them, all that they have heared and learned
from our drivers, and assure that the concerns and needs of the
American driver is heard.
This
annual event is for drivers
and for all
who
wish to make a positive impact on the industry
You are
welcome to use the sign-up form to receive immediate information and
updates for the 2012 convention.
The Annual Truck Driver Social
Media Convention is hosted by Allen & Donna Smith of AskTheTrucker
and made possible through the generosity of our sponsors.
"The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort
and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin
Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American civil rights leader.
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