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TIC’s fine Messe

CONTENTIOUS PLANS by the Truck

Industry Council (TIC) to run its own truck show in Melbourne in 2021, and stifle Brisbane’s historical standing as the premier trucking event on the Australian calendar, appear to be already striking dissension and discord among potential exhibitors.

Causing concern in some quarters is the fact that TIC, despite no formal announcement, has engaged an entrepreneurial German company, Deutsche Messe (loosely translated to mean German Fair) as its organising partner.

Deutsche Messe is the organising body, either in part

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