For exhibitors & sponsors · 15 minutes from the Kentucky Expo Center

Host Clients During the Mid-America Trucking Show

MATS is the largest trucking show in North America, and for three days every spring it turns Louisville into the center of the industry. When the floor closes, your fleet buyers and suppliers are still in town — give them a reason to stay with you. Reserve our private upstairs lounge, fifteen minutes across the river, for cigars and the conversations that close deals.

The private upstairs VIP cigar lounge at The Office Cigar Lounge in New Albany, IN

Kentucky Expo Center · March

The Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS)

  • When Each March — March 18–20, 2027 (dates shift year to year)
  • Show Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY
  • Our room The Office Cigar Lounge — 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150 · 15 minutes from the KEC

MATS draws tens of thousands of fleet operators, owner-operators, OEMs, and parts suppliers to the Kentucky Exposition Center every spring. It's three days of trucks, technology, and the single best chance all year to get face time with the people who actually sign the orders — which makes the after-hours hours just as valuable as the booth.

The After-Show Move for Trucking Exhibitors

You spent the budget on the booth, the freight, and the travel. The leads come off the floor — but the relationships get built after hours, when nobody's rushing to the next aisle. A hotel bar is loud and full of your competitors. A steakhouse is a reservation and a clock. We're a different kind of room: a premium cigar lounge fifteen minutes across the river in New Albany, Indiana, with a door you can close behind your group.

Whether you're a manufacturer entertaining a fleet account, a supplier closing a distributor, or a sales crew that's been on its feet for three days straight, the upstairs lounge turns a booth handshake into a two-hour conversation — the kind that's still paying off long after the show packs up.

Your Own Private Floor

Book the upstairs and the entire second floor is yours for the night — fully private, doors closed, no walk-in traffic. That includes:

We keep the focus on cigars and good company. Plenty of groups bring their own food to enjoy alongside their cigars — just ask us how it works.

Plan your MATS night

Lock in Your Date Before the Show Fills the City

MATS week is one of the busiest weeks of the year in Louisville, and our private room books up fast. Pick your night now and we'll have it ready — from group size to a flight of cigars matched to your crowd.

Getting here

Fifteen Minutes From the Kentucky Expo Center

An easy ride for the whole group — straight up I-264 and over the Sherman Minton Bridge, or I-265 to State Street (Exit 1), turn right and head up the hill. 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150. Free parking out front. Hours & map →