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May 21, 2008

Top Service Technician Wrangles Glory at 2008 Navistar Rodeo

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GLENDALE HEIGHTS, IL – Per Meling of White’s International Trucks in Greensboro, N.C., was named the winner of the second annual Navistar Service-Technician Rodeo. The rodeo, held at Universal Technical Institute in Glendale Heights, Ill., featured the top eight service technicians from International dealerships across North America in a competition designed to test their skills in eight key areas of commercial truck servicing.

Competition stations included mock service areas for air conditioning, brakes, drive train, electrical, and preventative maintenance. Station areas also were dedicated to I-6, V-8, and V-6 engines.

Technicians involved in the competition are either ASE certified or Canadian-provincial certified in addition to Diamond certified, Navistar’s official certification program for its service technicians. Participants were selected from an overall group of the top 340 technicians at International dealerships. Those 340 were narrowed down through online testing, and the highest-scoring technicians in each region of the United States and
Canada were selected for the rodeo.

Technicians from the following dealerships competed in the rodeo:

  • Eastcoast International Trucks in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
  • Hunter’s Truck Sales in Smithfield, Pa.
  • Lake City Trucks in Twin Falls, Idaho
  • Les Camions Beaudoin in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
  • Regional International in Geneva, N.Y.
  • Mid-State Truck Service in Plover, Wis.
  • White’s International Trucks in Greensboro, N.C.
  • Roberts Truck Center, Albuquerque, N.M.

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