It’s a real ROADeo!
State highway equipment operators from Letcher, Pike, Knott, Floyd, Martin, Johnson, and Lawrence counties met for the annual Skills competition driving snow plows and low boy trucks through obstacle courses and maneuvering backhoe scoops to take golf balls out of a sandbox and onto a highway cone.
The event took place Friday, June 9, 2017 from 9 a.m. until about 3:30 p.m. at Archer Park, in Prestonsburg, Floyd County
Interviews were available with Mary Westfall-Holbrook, Chief District Engineer; Jimmy Queen, Roadeo coordinator and D12 Work Zone Safety Coordinator; Paxton Weddington and Darold Slone, D12 Project Delivery and Preservation Branch Managers, various maintenance specialists who compete, and others who judge the competitions, including employees from design, permits, traffic operations, equipment maintenance, and administrative offices.
D12 SKILLS ROADEO AT ARCHER PARK
Here are the winners:
Snow Plow First place Ricky Halcomb Knott County Maintenance
Second place Sam Auxier Johnson County Maintenance
Third place Calvin Howard Martin County Maintenance
Backhoe First place Calvin Howard Martin County Maintenance
Second place Rob Chaffin Lawrence County Maintenance
Third place Nick Mullins Minnie Maintenance
Grader First place Glen Salyer Shelby Maintenance
Second place Skyler Salyer Lawrence County Maintenance
Third place Sam Auxier Johnson County Maintenance
Overall First place
Sam Auxier Johnson County Maintenance
Second place Calvin Howard Martin County Maintenance
Third place Skyer Salyer Lawrence County Maintenance
Chief’s Challenge
First place Danny Smith Phelps Maintenance
Second place Joshua Blackburn Shelby Maintenance
Rookie of the Year
First place Cory Mullins Allen Maintenance
Second place Skyler Salyer Lawrence County Maintenance
Third place Paul Hall Johnson County Maintenance
