Wesley Salley Earns Top Title as TMCSuperTech Grand Champion
Wesley Salley Earns Top Title as TMCSuperTech Grand Champion
FedEx Freight’s Kelby Bentley Wins 2nd Place; Mitchell Buelow Places Third; FedEx Freight Wins Team Competition
Pittsburgh, Pa. — Wesley Salley, senior technician from Round Rock, Texas, FedEx Freight, was crowned TMCSuperTech 2026 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. “Wesley 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 FedEx Freight’s Mitchell Buelow placed third. FedEx Freight won the team competition with Mitchell Buelow and Wesley Salley. Elsewhere in the competition, Corbin White, University of Northwest Ohio, won the TMCFutureTech National Student Technician Skills Competition, with Madison Boone, Forsyth Technical Community College finishing second and Jeffrey Jackson, Francis Tuttle Technology Center placing third.
A full list of station winners and the final order of finish will be available at:
https://tmc.trucking.org/blog/tmcsupertech-2026-skills-station-winners-and-top-finishers-0
https://tmc.trucking.org/blog/tmcsupertech-2026-order-finish
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Patterson is the TMCSuperTech 2026 Competition Chairman; Salley is the TMCSuperTech 2026 Grand Champion; Phillips chairs TMC's Technician & Educator Committee. Kennedy is TMC's 2026-2027 General Chairman & Treasurer.