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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 427
By Massey
SJR0427
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A RESOLUTION to honor the Tennessee Department of
Transportation on winning the 2024 Southeast
Roadeo.
WHEREAS, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) team has won the
2024 Southeast Roadeo, thus claiming its tenth championship out of the seventeen Roadeos
held since 2006; and
WHEREAS, the Southeast Roadeo features leading equipment operators from eleven
states, who compete against each other on a course designed to test their skills in operating the
following equipment: backhoe, single axle dump truck, tandem axle dump truck, skid steer,
lowboy, tractor mower, and motor grader; and
WHEREAS, focusing on efficiency and skill, the Southeast Roadeo provides operators
with the opportunity to display their mastery of vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment; evaluate
their strengths and challenges; improve their techniques; and learn new skills, while engaging in
friendly competition; and
WHEREAS, the Roadeo also helps build relationships and trust among operators; these
relationships are invaluable when operators from across the State come together to work as a
team during emergency conditions and disaster-related situations; and
WHEREAS, the TDOT team won the State's tenth Southeast Roadeo by taking first and
second place in the skid steer category and first and second place in the single axle dump truck
competition; and
WHEREAS, the members of TDOT's 2024 Southeast Roadeo championship team are
Benjamin Bolden and Josh Human representing Region 1; David Bragg, Dewayne Everett,
Ricky Moss, and Ronnie Spivey representing Region 2; Evan Mitchell, Joel Bates, Mike Puckett,
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John Young, and Richard Sullins representing Region 3; and Clint Bowman, Hunter Butler, and
Logan Garner representing Region 4; and
WHEREAS, their victory reaffirms our high opinion of TDOT and its dedicated
employees, who are most deserving of our approbation; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE HOU SE OF
REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, that we honor and congratulate the Tennessee
Department of Transportation team on winning the 2024 Southeast Roadeo, applaud its
members' ongoing commitment to making Tennessee's roads and highways the best in the
nation, and extend to them our best wishes for much continued success and happiness.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an appropriate copy of this resolution be prepared
for presentation with this final clause omitted from such copy and upon proper request made to
the appropriate clerk, the language appearing immediately following the State seal appear
without House or Senate designation.