Matthew Sloan Earns Top Title as TMCSuperTech Grand Champion
Matthew Sloan Earns Top Title as TMCSuperTech Grand Champion
FedEx Freight’s Kelby Bentley Wins 2nd Place; Hogan Truck Leasing’s Carl Diehl Places Third; FedEx Freight Wins Team Competition
Raleigh, N.C — Matthew Sloan, technician from Jacksonville, Fla., FedEx Freight, was crowned TMCSuperTech 2025 Grand Champion here at the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council's National Technicians Skills Competitions.
“Being named Grand Champion at TMC's National Technician Skills Competitions is a tremendous honor,” said TMC Executive Director Robert Braswell. “Matthew demonstrated the kinds of skills, technical knowledge and professionalism we have come to expect from our members. Congratulations to him, and to all our competitors who displayed extraordinary talent during this competition.”
FedEx Freight’s Kelby Bentley — himself a TMCSuperTech Grand Champion in 2019 — placed second and Hogan Truck Leasing’s Carl Diehl placed third. FedEx Freight won the team competition with John Blanchet and Philip Barlow. Elsewhere in the competition, Tully McKinley, Forsyth Technical Community College, won the TMCFutureTech National Student Technician Skills Competition, with Madison Boone, Forsyth Technical Community College finishing second and Bennett Fischer, WyoTech placing third.
A full list of station winners and the final order of finish will be available at:
https://tmc.trucking.org/blog/tmcsupertech-2025-order-finish
https://tmc.trucking.org/blog/tmcsupertech-2025-skills-station-winners-and-top-finishers
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Patterson is the TMCSuperTech 2025 Competition Chairman; Sloan is the TMCSuperTech 2025 Grand Champion; Phillips chairs TMC's Technician & Educator Committee. Mihai is TMC's 2025-2026 General Chairman & Treasurer.