The black shirts: Playing for keeps

Dec. 17, 2015
Everyone's serious at a national-level competition, but it's the finals where all the stops get pulled out. At the Rush Truck Centers Tech Skills Rodeo, here are some scenes from the second and final day of competition.

SAN ANTONIO, TX. Everyone's serious at a national-level competition, but it's the finals where all the stops get pulled out. At the Rush Truck Centers Tech Skills Rodeo, these are scenes from the second and final day of competition, where top techs wore the black shirts they'd earned.

This was a competition not only for bragging rights to see who's best this year in each category — including a "Rush Rising Star" competition for level 1 and 2 techs that was new this time around — but there were real money and drool-worthy prizes on the line for the winners. And we'll have more to show from that very soon. Have a look, though, at some of the guys as they were doing all they could to earn it.

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Aaron Marsh

Aaron Marsh is a former senior editor of FleetOwner, who wrote for the publication from 2015 to 2019. 

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