Virginia Ready-Mixed Concrete Association holds 1st Annual Truck Roadeo (11/19/2004)

Twenty-three drivers from as far away as Martinsville, Winchester and Virginia Beach competed in the 1st Annual Mixer Truck Roadeo at the Richmond Raceway on November 10th.

Drivers were challenged by a written test on the principles of concrete driver safety, as well as a pretrip truck inspection under the eye of Virginia State Police Motor Carrier officers.

Drivers were judged on the shortest time through the obstacle course with penalty points added whenever they hit a traffic cone or were a distance from stopping and turning markers. Though the results of the written test and particularly the pretrip inspection were important to a driver’s success, the main scoring emphasis was on the score from the driving test.......