TWNA Press Event Clearinghouse
Mass-Media Watchdog Service
Website Update
PineTruck Charity Challenge
Anniversary Archives
Want
More Editors At Your Press Event? Tell TWNA First!
This message is particularly
aimed at our friends on the OEM and Associate side. TWNA wishes
to remind you that it has an event clearinghouse committee steered
by James Menzies
of Truck News and Shirley
Sponholtz of Old Time Trucks.
James and Shirley
can tell you if another event is already scheduled for the period
when you wish to organize yours. So by getting in touch with
them, you can avoid having an almost empty press conference
because too many editors are already covering another event.
You don’t have
to say anything secret about your event, just suggest a date
and TWNA will tell you if there’s something else scheduled
in the same period. The clearinghouse calendar is not published,
so your invite-only events will remain confidential.
Media Watchdog Service: Don’t Hesitate
To Use It!
One of the founding
principals of TWNA was to function as a watchdog over the non-truck
trade media and to respond to inaccurate, incorrect, misleading
or biased reporting on trucking industry-related matters.
Our friend David
Kolman has volunteered to be TWNA’s official responder
to counter such editorial. Along with doing so, he will let
the “offenders” know that TWNA can serve as an information
source and referral service as they report on the trucking industry.
You can assist TWNA
with its continuing mission to set-the record straight about
trucking by alerting David
to any negative publicity you come across. Also, if you see
a particularly good example of truck industry coverage in the
mass media, let us know and we'll pass along kudos.
TWNA’s Website To Be Refreshed
Among the topics
discussed at TWNA’s recent Board of Directors meeting was
the upcoming overhaul to TWNA’s website. If you have any
ideas, suggestions or comments on the website, please pass them
along to TWNA’s Executive Director, Tom Kelley. Once updated,
the site should be even more user-friendly and will include
new credit card payment capabilities.
PineTruck CharityChallenge @ MATS 2009
The recent Board
meeting also included discussion of feedback regarding TWNA's
plans to organize a PineTruck Charity Challenge during the 2009
edition of the Mid-America Trucking Show. The reactions so far
have been very encouraging, enough so that TWNA is already working
with sponsors for the event and fine-tuning the competition
rules. For more information about this event, please contact
TWNA’s Executive Director, Tom
Kelley via e-mail.
We Need Your Archives For TWNA’s 20th
Anniversary!
TWNA is working to
organizen of the celebration of its 20th anniversary next year
at the Mid-America Trucking Show. If you have any pictures,
film or other documents that highlight the last 20 years of
trucking in general and/or TWNA’s activities in particular,
please get in touch with 20th anniversary committee chairperson
Jami Jones via
e-mail.
