{"id":165178,"date":"2025-08-22T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:56:11","slug":"brownwood-district-triumphs-at-first-txdot-equipment-operator-roadeo-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165178\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownwood district triumphs at first TxDOT Equipment Operator Roadeo in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Department of Transportation\u2019s Brownwood District took home the Team Championship Award at the inaugural TxDOT Equipment Operator Roadeo, held August 14 in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>The event tested the skill and precision of equipment operators from 25 districts across the state. <\/p>\n<p>Competitors faced off in events such as backhoe control, dump truck driving, skid steer maneuvering, and more. <\/p>\n<p>Brownwood\u2019s team earned the highest combined score, edging out all other districts. \u201cWe were knocking on the door to nationals,\u201d said Calvin Milburn, Brownwood District Safety Officer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/south-14-and-clack-st-traffic-light-operational-after-weeks-of-construction-delays#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/news\/local\/south-14-and-clack-st-traffic-light-operational-after-weeks-of-construction-delays#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED | South 14 and Clack St. traffic light operational after weeks of construction delays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>District Engineer Greg Cedillo praised the team for showcasing both skill and safety on a competitive stage, &#8220;I am proud of how they represented our district and its safety culture against so many great competitors,\u201d said District Engineer Greg Cedillo.<\/p>\n<p>Top individual scorers from across the state will go on to represent Texas at the national competition in Kentucky later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Transportation\u2019s Brownwood District took home the Team Championship Award at the inaugural TxDOT Equipment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,95117,4315,95118,7371,7372,8152,17411,95119,358,3187,8320,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-165178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brownwood-district","10":"tag-competition","11":"tag-equipment-operator-roadeo","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-safety","15":"tag-skill","16":"tag-team-championship","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-txdot","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115069700327313782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}