Better Roads Digital Magazine
Issue link: https://read.dmtmag.com/i/85911
he ProPickup Truck Expo, a new trade show event show- casing heavy-duty, hard-work- ing pickups (and their accessories) used in construction including road and bridge work, will take place Aug. 23-25 as part of the Great American Trucking Show (GATS) at the Dallas Convention Center. The Expo, which runs concurrent with T GATS in an adjoining exhibition hall, will be produced by Randall-Reilly's ProPickup magazine. Randall-Reilly, of course, publishes Better Roads. In addition to hundreds of aftermar- ket automotive products and vehicles on display, the ProPickup Truck Expo A trade show for construction pickups! RoadWorks At Last! will provide educational seminars called SmartSessions headlined by industry leaders and experts in the automotive aftermarket. "Our SmartSessions will cover a wide range of topics, from how to increase fuel mileage, to setting up the mobile office, to spec'ing out their next new pickup," says Bruce Smith, edi- tor of ProPickup. For more information, contact Rhianna Richey, rrichey@randallreilly. com; (205) 248-1524. O Le Rental ur recent surveys of read- ers have shown that renting equipment is becoming in- creasingly popular for contractors and, surprisingly, gaining quickly among agencies. So, why not go to Paris and find out more about how it might work for you? Okay, that's reaching. But April's giant Intermat trade show (officially the International exhibition for equipment and techniques for construction and materials industries) in Paris, April 16-21, has added a new wrinkle: rental. And, remember, at the main Dial-a-Plow Wayne County, Michigan (a.k.a. Detroit), has released its Compass web portal providing real-time vehicle, traf- fic and video information to residents. Y S event, there is always the North American pavilion sponsored by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. This monster show is already 30-percent bigger than its last version in 2009, so it's not a reach to say there is something for every- one in our business. Two days of the show our phone can get you to snow-cleared streets in the Motor City these days. Compass combines information from a variety of sources, from the city and from the Web, to provide a single inte- grated live view of what is happening on the streets of Wayne County. So, on your smart phone or laptop you can see where the snow plows and salt trucks have been and haven't been. De-Stressing Inner-City Parking eattle is looking into letting parkers use their cellphones to pay instead of clumsily shov- eling change into meters in the rain. Simply download a free app and use it to punch in the code the city assigns to you when you end up curbside. No app? Okay, use the keypad and dial a phone number. Not quite as cool as the app, but you stay dry. New York City is following San Francisco's example and testing a system of sensors that indicate open spaces that you can find on your laptop or smart phone. San Francisco has already gone to work on the pay-by-cellphone route, too. Other cities are testing both forms of finding/paying as they try to help frustrated drivers in crowded inner cit- ies avoid one of the great headaches of urban driving and maybe some ugly scenes. Better Roads March 2012 7 (April 17- 18) will be dedi- cated to rental sector glob- al issues, with two special roundtables presented by European rental com- panies, contractors and equipment manufac- turers. There is also the chance to visit two rental com- panies near the show.