Rush truck center lubbock11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() "The experience of the Tech Skills Rodeo isn't a given-it is completely competitive every single year," Pollard noted. ![]() And with record participation, some top-level techs who've won here in the past-including a grand champion from last year-didn't make it back, often by razor-thin test margins. Some were returning winners or past competitors, but the Rodeo this year featured around two dozen first-timers. Of those who tried out, 232 finalists made it here for their chance at $285,000 in prizes and cash. "We had 1,800 people enter to compete." Rush Truck Centers employs just short of 2,500 service and body technicians at more than 110 locations across the country. "This year we had record-breaking participation," noted Jody Pollard, senior vice president of dealership operations at Rush Enterprises. But the Rush techs especially had to earn it this year, and the event is expanding to include other employees. ![]() It's become almost a pilgrimage every December for Rush's top technicians to its corporate headquarters city of San Antonio, which delivers its fairer weather and standout River Walk holiday and dining/ shopping experience for contestants and their significant others who come. From an event first held in Nashville, TN with just two rows of bleachers for the awards ceremony audience, it has since grown in attendance about 20 times over. It's the baker's dozen for the Rush Truck Centers Tech Skills Rodeo, which for the 13th time announced its winners including all-around grand champion Steven Brain of Rush Truck Center-Dallas. ![]()
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