Paul McCartney rocks at Freightliner Concert

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Paul McCartney wowed around a thousand people during the annual Freightliner dinner and concert on Monday night held during the American Trucking Associations (ATA) Management Conference and Exhibition that wrapped up Tuesday in Philadelphia, PA.

Ever since people started arriving for the conference on Friday, they were buzzing with speculation about who would follow up last year’s concert by the Eagles in San Diego, CA or Rod Stewart in 2013 in Orlando, FL.

A few wrongly guessed it would be Bruce Springsteen, among others.

But the selection of McCartney as this year’s performer was a natural when you think about it.

That’s because his wife is Nancy Shevell, who was at the concert, is an executive at New Jersey-based New England Motor Freight, owned by her father Myron "Mike" Shevell.

In addition to playing old favorites for the crowd from his days with the Beatles, Wings and even from his solo career, that included some new works, McCartney even shook things up a bit, changing up the lyrics from the Beatles classic song “Drive my Car” to where he belted out “baby you can drive my truck.”

Soon as McCartney took the stage the cell phone cameras came out, with posts going like mad on to Twitter and Facebook, while some danced and others leisurely sat and watched the show in its intimate club-like setting.

Now that all of the excitement is over, the one question many are asking, is how will Freightliner top this show in 2016?

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Baby, You Can Drive My Truck: Paul McCartney Rocks Freightliner Dinner at MCE

Transport Topics / October 20, 2015

Music icon Sir Paul McCartney surprised and delighted the nearly 1,000 people attending a customer appreciation dinner hosted by Freightliner Trucks here on Oct. 19.

McCartney and his band performed the greatest hits of his five-decade career after the dinner.

There were numerous trucking references throughout the evening by the former Beatle, such as when he changed the words to the Beatles' hit “Drive My Car” to “Drive My Truck.”

The Freightliner dinner dovetailed with American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here Oct. 17-20.

McCartney’s wife, Nancy Shevell, is an executive at less-than-truckload carrier New England Motor Freight. She and several other family members attended. New England Motor Freight, which is based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is owned by Shevell’s father, Myron.

Daimler Trucks North America President Martin Daum jokingly played a recording toward the end of dinner, suggesting that was his company’s attempt at saving money on the event's entertainment.

He said last year’s spectacular dinner concert by the Eagles was a huge success that many didn’t think could be topped. Then, Daum stepped aside as a curtain opened to an area designed as a club. Once the attendees had filed into the “club,” the lights went down and out walked McCartney, who jammed for the next two hours.

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