Stars & Stripes Show Truck Series Launched; Finals At Mid-America Trucking Show 2001.Business Editors IRVINE Irvine, town, Scotland Irvine (ûr`vĭn), town (1991 pop. 32,507), North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, on the Irvine River estuary. Industries include iron and brass foundries. Other products are chemicals, electric goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000 Newport Newport, town, England Newport, town (1991 pop. 19,758), Isle of Wight, S England. It is also a port and the commercial center of the island, with agricultural markets and light industries (plastics, soft drinks, and woodworking). In the 17th cent. Communications and the National Association of Show Trucks (NAST) have announced a nationwide series of truck beauty shows, in which working truckers who are NAST members will compete for over $300,000 in cash prizes. The Stars & Stripes Show Truck Series will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. with the National Championship Show Truck Finals at the Mid-America Trucking Show next March in Louisville, Ky. Newport has also contracted with Mid-America show management to produce a second event at the Louisville extravaganza ex·trav·a·gan·za n. 1. An elaborate, spectacular entertainment or display: "Washington is an extravaganza of great buildings, greenery, and monuments" Larry Griffin. : the Paul K. Young Memorial Truck Beauty Show. Named for the late founder of the Mid-America show, it is open to all truck owners, who will compete for over $20,000 in cash awards. A minimum of another $10,000 will go to charity. Six Stars & Stripes qualifying shows will be held at participating truckstops around the country. The top regional finishers (three in the Bobtail bobtail a short tail, either natural or docked. Seen naturally in some species, e.g. bobcat, and some dog breeds, e.g. Schipperke and Old English sheepdog. bobtail disease category and three in the Tractor-Trailer Combination category) will qualify for the National Championship Show in Louisville. Each qualifying show offers a total of $20,000 in cash, trophies and plaques plaques, n.pl 1. brain lesions found within the vacant areas between nerve cells. 2. deposits of cholesterol in artery walls that characterize arteriosclerosis. to be distributed among winners. The first event will be during TruckerFest 2000, August 17-20 at the Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. Travel Center in Reno. "The Mid-America Trucking Show is the largest gathering of truckers in the nation, and the Stars & Stripes championship finals will be one of its highlights," said Bud Farquhar, Newport project director. The Bobtail and Combination champions will each win $30,000 cash. Second places will pay $15,000 and third places win $10,000. Cash prizes will be paid through the top 18 finishers in each category. "We're extremely happy that the finals will be held in conjunction with the new Paul K. Young Memorial Show, which is open to all truckers," Farquhar said. "We expect the unprecedented increase in prize money, and multimedia promotion of the series, to boost NAST membership and draw show truck entrants in record numbers." The National Association of Show Trucks is an independent organization of leading truckers who own and operate show-caliber big rigs Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. and bobtails, and vie for beauty honors. "Truckers can now qualify for the national championship--and compete for big prize money as well as the Truck-Lite Trophy--by finishing third or better in just one qualifying show," said NAST President Bob Guy. "That makes a NAST membership a pretty sound investment." Memberships cost $50 per year. More information is available from NAST at (941) 626-1530 or its web site: www.nastshowtrucks.org. NAST will handle all entries for both the Stars & Stripes series and the Paul K. Young Memorial Truck Beauty Show. Newport Communications is the leading provider of trucking industry media. It produces Heavy Duty Trucking, RoadStar, Truck Sales & Leasing and Truckstop Travel Plaza magazines Plaza Magazine International is an international publication, focusing on design, interior decoration and fashion with a "hip" Scandinavian perspective. Plaza Magazine is published 6 times per year by Plaza Publishing Group AB, and is sold is over 40 countries world wide. , RoadStar Radio News, truckinginfo.com and numerous newsletters, and operates Newport Poster Network. |
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