With Truck Week 2026 fast approaching, organisers have released a new event kit designed to help businesses invite local councillors, mayors, State MPs and Federal MPs to visit during Truck Week.
The new Connect with Your Local Representatives kit joins the recently released Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds Event Kit as part of a growing suite of practical resources designed to make Truck Week participation easier, more meaningful and more accessible for businesses across the heavy vehicle, road freight and logistics sectors.
Truck Week, to be held from 11–18 May 2026, is a national celebration of the people, workplaces and everyday professionalism that keep Australia moving.
The aim is not to create pressure for large or elaborate events. Instead, Truck Week is about encouraging activities that are authentic, practical and easy to deliver – whether that means a team BBQ, a morning tea, a toolbox talk, a wellbeing conversation, a depot visit or a simple local workplace recognition activity.
The new local representatives kit is designed to help businesses create meaningful connections with community leaders and decision-makers by opening the door to their workplace during Truck Week.
It includes practical guidance, contact tips and editable templates to support invitations to local representatives, along with background material to help explain Truck Week and the role the industry plays in local communities.
Importantly, the kit is not about politics. It is about helping local leaders better understand the people, businesses and workplaces behind an essential industry, and allowing them to see first-hand the contribution being made in their electorate or local area.
As the kit makes clear, even a simple site visit, coffee, morning tea or BBQ can help create meaningful local connections.
The release of this second event kit reflects a broader goal for Truck Week 2026: to give participants practical tools and low-friction ideas that can be adapted to different workplaces, audiences and objectives.
For those looking to focus on team wellbeing, the Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds Event Kit remains a ready-made option for workplace participation.
For those looking to build local understanding and visibility, the new representatives kit offers another practical pathway.
More Truck Week resources, templates and ideas will continue to be released in the lead-up to May, giving businesses and industry participants more ways to get involved in ways that suit their own people, workplaces and communities.
Whether your plans are big or small, public or private, every activity helps tell the national Truck Week story.
Explore Truck Week event kits, register your event and find more resources at truckweek.com.au