A “Spot The Retread” competition sponsored by the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB) will be part of the qualification process for the Sept. 19-22 Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) National Technician Skills event in Raleigh, N.C.
Known as TMCSuperTech, the gathering “is North America’s premier skills competition for professional commercial vehicle technicians,” says TRIB Managing Director David Stevens.
Contestants come from all segments of the trucking industry, and many are state, regional or corporate champions. The competition consists of a first-round written challenge and subsequent hands-on skills challenge.
TRIB’s “Spot The Retread” component, which will take place during the qualification round, will serve as a way for contestants who move on to the Hands-on-Skills Challenge to earn bonus points toward their final score.
“We’ll have eight new and retreaded tires from Bridgestone/Bandag, Continental, Goodyear and Michelin, and having already seen a few of the tires, I know the competition will present a real challenge for the technicians,” Stevens says.
“These tires are a real testament to the continually improving engineering and manufacturing process for retreaded tires,” he notes, “and reinforces how they should be a part of any fleet’s overall tire program.”
For more information, visit www.retread.org.
