{"id":57363,"date":"2017-05-19T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=57363"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T20:26:52","slug":"missouri-truck-driving-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2017\/05\/19\/missouri-truck-driving-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Truck Driving Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MoTruckAssoc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MoTruckAssoc-300x89.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MoTruckAssoc-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MoTruckAssoc.png 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Trucking Association is proud to present 170 plus Professional Truck drivers from around the State of Missouri, in a competition that will crown nine class champions, a vehicle inspection champion, a knowledge written exam winner, as well as a rookie of the year, and an overall Grand Champion driver.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place June 2nd and 3rd, at the Branson Convention Center. The contestants will compete in competition that will test their skills on an obstacle driving course; test their knowledge in trucking industry, safety, first aid and hazardous materials; and a hands-on test of their ability in the vehicle inspection aspect where the contestant must locate a multitude of hazards that have been planted on a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Championship program is one of the most visible and successful safety initiatives of the trucking industry.<\/p>\n<p>Established by the (ATA) American Trucking Association in 1937 as the National Truck Roadeo; today&#8217;s Championship program provides professional truck drivers the opportunity to demonstrate their exceptional driving skill, knowledge and professionalism at the company, state, regional, and national level &#8211; all qualities that make them leaders in their profession. This year the Missouri Trucking Association is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this event with the first-ever indoor skills course.<\/p>\n<p>The overriding object of the Championship program is two-fold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n(1) to provide an incentive for professional truck and step van drivers to perfect their craft, and drive accident free<\/li>\n<li>(2) to improve the media&#8217;s and general public&#8217;s image of truck drivers and the motor carrier industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both days are open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the Missouri Trucking Association office at (573) 634-3388.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Trucking Association is proud to present 170 plus Professional Truck drivers from around the State of Missouri, in a competition that will crown nine class champions, a vehicle inspection champion, a knowledge written exam winner, as well as a rookie of the year, and an overall Grand Champion driver. The event will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[16,19,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}