Mikey and the staff at Legends brands deserve credit for putting together a remarkable and memorable event.
Thanks are due to Bill Bruders for his hospitality, and especially to Janet,Mike and Eric from the Nashville office for all of the "behind the scenes" hard work. My job as a presenter was made remarkably easy because of their cheerful support and assistance.
It was great to meet many of the people I'd previously only known from their avatars, too.
I was most impressed with the truck mount manufacturer's panel . I've seen this done at trade shows in the past, and it usually ended up as either boring or a sniping match between the participants.
In this case, Mike's foresight in sending each of them half a dozen questions that they could be better prepared to answer made it more informative. I also found every participant to be refreshingly frank and without pretense.
Imagine this line up (from left to right facing the group):
Bob Savage of Savage Truck Mounts
Les Jones of Judson
Steve Poulos from
Hydramaster
Jerry McKillup from
Prochem
Mike Roden from
Sapphire Scientific/Legends
Chris Pond (a distributor of a few lines, but with a resume from Prochem, Jon-Don, and now his own business as a truck mount mechanic and custom installation artist)
Brent Weigand from Masterblend
Terje Brevik from Nordic One.
Every one of these men gave insightful comments and were mutually respectful and even supportive. It was a great example of how our industry has matured.
Great job as moderator too, Mike.
