{"id":24260,"date":"2012-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natso.com\/the-natso-show-2013-focuses-on-education\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:08:44","slug":"the-natso-show-2013-focuses-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/the-natso-show-2013-focuses-on-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The 黑料社区Show 2013 Focuses on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>黑料社区President and CEO Lisa Mullings said today that The 黑料社区Show 2013, scheduled to be held Feb. 2-6 in Savannah, Ga., will be the premier educational showcase for the truckstop and travel plaza industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With the guidance of The 黑料社区Show Advisory Council, a group of 10 travel plaza and truckstop operators, 18 educational opportunities have been crafted to help 黑料社区members improve<span>&nbsp;their business operations today<\/span>&nbsp;and make innovative business decisions that will lead them into the&nbsp;<span>future<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among The 黑料社区Show 2013&rsquo;s educational highlights sure to deliver actionable take-home ideas are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li><span>Energy Summit: Reduce Costs and Add Value with Energy Improvements<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Know Who Your Fuel Customers Are and Learn How to Keep Them<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Become a Shrink Management Master: Tools and Techniques for Immediate Impact<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>黑料社区attendees also will hear directly from a variety of experts about the latest trends and forecasts, including fuel prices, freight trends, alternative fuel markets and profit center offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Future-focused keynote speakers include noted experts&nbsp;Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with Oil Price Information Service (OPIS);&nbsp;Bob Costello, chief economist for the American Trucking Associations, and Hank Suerth, chief executive officer of Orion Foods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Additional sessions include a look at the future of natural gas in a breakout sponsored by Shell Lubricants and insight into the trends and priorities affecting truckstop and travel plaza customers.<span>&nbsp;The National Petroleum Council will present publicly for the first time its findings from a two-year study on the future of alternative fuels, including natural gas, plug-in electric power, hydrogen, biodiesel, and gasoline and ethanol blends.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 黑料社区Show educational line-up also includes four training-focused sessions tailored specifically for future travel plaza and truckstop leaders. The four sessions are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li><span>Good People Equals Good Retail<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Manage Your Vendors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Hire the Right People and Set Them Up for Success<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<div><span>Fundamental Leadership Skills: Facilitation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>A handful of experts with decades of experience also will be on loan from NATSO&rsquo;s Human Library for customized learning experiences that operators can tailor to their own objectives. The Human Library is sponsored by Bridgestone Commercial Solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 黑料社区Show 2013 is scheduled to be held Feb. 2-6 at the Savannah International Trade &amp; Convention Center. Truckstop and travel plaza leaders interested in attending The 黑料社区Show 2013 can&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informz.net\/z\/cjUucD9taT0xNTE4MjQ3JnA9MSZ1PTExOTEyMDkxMyZsaT02NzM5Nzcz\/index.html\" rel=\"external\">register online<\/a>. Members of the media should contact Tiffany Wlazlowski at&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:%28703%29%20739-8578\" rel=\"external\">(703) 739-8578<\/a>&nbsp;or<\/span><a href=\"mailto:twlazlowski@natso.com\" rel=\"external\"><span>twlazlowski@natso.com<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;or Mindy Long at&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:mindy@mindylong.com\" rel=\"external\"><span>mindy@mindylong.com<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry experts to present on fuel, freight trends and more at The 黑料社区Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_subcategories":[2728],"post_types":[2409],"post_sections":[],"post_retailers":[],"post_sources":[],"post_suppliers":[],"class_list":["post-24260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_subcategories-uncategorized","post_types-press-releases"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35918,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions\/35918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_subcategories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_subcategories?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_types?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_sections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_sections?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_retailers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_retailers?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_sources","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_sources?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_suppliers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_suppliers?post=24260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}