Riteload to Host Country Music Star Leon Everette at the Great American Trucking Show

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Riteload, a disruptive technology platform for the $800B trucking industry, will be hosting country music star Leon Everette at this year's Great American Trucking Show.

On Wednesday August 21st at 7pm, Leon will perform at the Riteload tent in the main truck parking lot. He will have an encore performance on Saturday August 24th at 1pm at the Riteload booth (#4333) in the main Convention Center. Riteload has also invited some of their country music friends to join for guest performances. Taylor Barker, Mandi Jo Pinheiro, and Bill Weaver are planning to make appearances at the Riteload booth throughout the 3 day GATS show event.

"I'm so looking forward to playing for my friends at the Riteload booth at the GATS show and at their Riteload tent in the truck parking area," said Leon Everette. "I'm excited to meet you all there."

"Riteload is incredibly honored to host Leon Everette at our truck parking tent and at our booth (#4333). We can't wait to see him perform and entertain this great audience of trucking professionals," said Matthew Kane, Riteload CEO. "We will also be presenting a screening of Smokey and the Bandit on the BIG DIGITAL SCREEN mobile truck on Wednesday night at the Riteload tent directly after Leon's performance."

"We're excited to welcome Leon Everette to GATS. Leon's performance in the truck parking lot adds even more fun to the community we are building," said Emily Larson, Director of Events for The Great American Trucking Show.

About Riteload
Riteload is disrupting the $800B U.S. freight trucking industry with a platform that directly matches shippers with carriers in a fully transparent marketplace. With the only freight matching platform that completely eliminates the brokers, Riteload is able to facilitate the best pricing for both shippers and carriers. The platform's logistics tools dramatically reduce truck detention times and empty truck mileage. Riteload puts more money in drivers' pockets and allows shippers to control their own driver relationships.
Website: http://www.riteload.com

About Leon Everette
Leon Everette is a country music star born in Aiken, South Carolina. While serving in the US Navy in Vietnam in 1968, Leon entered and won a Navy-sponsored talent contest which began his country music career. After signing a recording contract with RCA in 1980, Leon went on to achieve 11 straight Top 10 records on the Country Billboard chart. One of those songs, "Hurricane", peaked at #1 and was so popular in Louisiana that Leon served as the Grand Marshal of Mardi Gras. He scored one of the biggest-selling records of 1983 with "Give Me What You Think Is Fair". He was the first county artist to ever perform in Italy and one of the first to perform at Wembley Stadium in London, England. In 2017, Leon was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in Jackson, TN alongside Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis among others.

SOURCE Riteload