Trade show models, promotional models, brand ambassadors, and lead-retrieval talent for The Work Truck Show (NTEA) 2027 — locally sourced in Indianapolis, trained before the doors open, and managed on-site. (Almost) instant quotes.
“A major show is a short window with a lot riding on it, and your booth staff decides how much of that crowd you actually reach. I have watched two exhibitors with the same booth get completely different results because one team engaged people and the other waited to be approached. The right staff turns foot traffic into conversations and conversations into leads. That is the whole game on a show floor, and it is what we train our talent to do.” Caryn Hanna, Owner of TSM Agency
The Work Truck Show fills the Indiana Convention Center with chassis, vocational bodies, lift and crane equipment, and fleet technology, and the people walking the aisles are fleet managers, upfitters, and buyers evaluating what to put on the road. That is the challenge it hands an exhibitor: the audience is practical and technical, the conversations turn quickly to payload, upfit, and total cost of ownership, and the show days are long. An under-staffed booth means a fleet buyer who paused for a moment moves on to the manufacturer with someone ready to talk specs. The four roles below each cover a different part of working a Work Truck Show booth.
The Work Truck Show fills the Indiana Convention Center with chassis, vocational bodies, lift and crane equipment, and fleet technology, and the people walking the aisles are fleet managers, upfitters, and buyers evaluating what to put on the road. That is the challenge it hands an exhibitor: the audience is practical and technical, the conversations turn quickly to payload, upfit, and total cost of ownership, and the show days are long
The Work Truck Show trade show models keep the front of your booth open to a credentialed crowd of fleet managers, upfitters, and commercial-vehicle buyers who move with purpose and expect competence. Our talent greets and qualifies the buyers moving down the aisles, opens conversations, hands serious prospects to your sales engineers, and keeps the stand looking staffed and credible on a technical commercial-vehicle floor. The challenge is a practical, technical audience over long days; we address it with briefed, approachable staff who qualify and route prospects fast. The outcome: more of the fleet and upfitting crowd actually engages, and your specialists spend their time on the buyers ready to spec an order.
The Work Truck Show promotional models pull buyers off the aisle when your booth is competing with rows of chassis and body displays for the same glance. Our talent drives traffic into your space and converts passers-by — the fleet managers, dealers, and upfitters scouting trucks and equipment — into scanned, tagged leads: running demo stations, anchoring vehicle displays, handing out spec sheets and catalogs, and holding energy through long show days in Indianapolis. Each rep is briefed on your product line and the one action you want every visitor to take, whether that is a lead scan, a spec-sheet grab, or a demo booking. The outcome is higher qualified traffic from the surrounding aisles and far more of it captured instead of walking past toward the next exhibitor.
The Work Truck Show brand ambassadors represent your brand to an audience of fleet managers, upfitters, dealers, and vocational-vehicle buyers who came to evaluate trucks and equipment — and your presence may extend past the booth into demos, ride-and-drives, and industry events around the show. Our ambassadors are briefed on your products, positioning, and talking points so they stay on-message and credible wherever they appear: embodying the brand on the floor, walking key accounts through demos, and steering traffic from busy zones back to your stand. For a new chassis, body, or equipment launch, they carry the story the way your own team would, in language a fleet buyer respects. The goal they serve is accurate brand recall across the vocational truck industry's main trade week.
The Work Truck Show event staffing covers the roles that keep a commercial-vehicle booth running at full tilt. As your staffing partner we field the whole team: product demonstrators who can speak to spec and run repeatable demos of your chassis, bodies, or equipment; lead-retrieval specialists trained on Cvent, Compusystems, Validar, Klik, and Bartizan so every fleet manager and upfitter is scanned and qualified correctly in real time; presenters for in-booth demos and stage moments; bilingual talent for the show's diverse attendees; and a team lead to manage check-in, breaks, and performance across the show. One dedicated account executive scopes the mix to your booth size and goals and runs the team on-site at the Indiana Convention Center. The outcome: a booth staffed open-to-close and a clean, complete lead list when the show closes.
92% of trade show attendees come specifically to see new products — primed to engage at your booth, if someone engages them first.
Source — CEIRA booth that's professionally staffed open-to-close at The Work Truck Show (NTEA) — and a clean lead list when the show ends.
A woman-owned talent agency co-founded by Caryn Hanna, a former professional model.
More than 20 years of trade show and event staffing experience.
More than 2,000 trade shows, conventions, and promotional events staffed across the United States.
Over 2,000 experienced trade show models, brand ambassadors, and promotional staff across 25+ U.S. cities.
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Fully insured with $1M per occurrence and $2M aggregate general liability. Certificates of insurance available on request.
Local talent in every major U.S. convention city, eliminating travel expenses, with staff who know the venue.
Three steps to a fully staffed The Work Truck Show (NTEA) booth.
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