Published 12/16/2014 08:47AM, by Dick Morgan
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I just had a chance to read Gregg Randall's "Building Boost" article in the 2014 December addition of the "Puller" magazine.
The NTPA has made significant improvements in a couple of the area's that will impact a large number of their membership. At the Regional National level the NTPA will raise the purse by at least $250, and the Limited and Light Pro Stock classes will see an increase of $900 with both classes seeing a purse of $4000. The Pro Stock Diesel 4x4 will now pay down 10 places instead of 12 which will reflect in a $285 increase for those 10 places.
Another change is the re...
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Published 09/10/2014 12:23PM, by Dick Morgan
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I wanted to do a follow-up on the NTPA leadership article I did on August 26th. In that article I expressed my opinion that a leadership change within the NTPA is sorely needed. Having had a chance to read the proposed 2015 Rulebook changes I noticed that there was as much concern about how the pullers wanted changes in some existing rules, but there was also a real strong underlying tone on how the pullers wanted to be valued. Maybe it's just me but it sure appears that the members want change.
There is a problem in some of the classes with puller and hook numbers and this is a great opportunity for the NTPA to star...
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Published 08/26/2014 01:46PM, by Dick Morgan
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A couple weeks ago I wrote an article about the five “stake holders” in pulling. Today I think we really need to take a hard look at one of the “stake holders”.
Today I want to talk about the NTPA, while I think that there is many good things about the NTPA the fact remains that there are problems with the organization. I think it's time to have an open and honest discussion on the problems with the organization. I feel fairly confident that within the hierarchy of the NTPA they believer that, IF, there is a problem it's just a blip on the radar. They will say it's just an OFF year for certain of their Grand National classes. However I am having a hard time believing that line of thinking anymore. I believe that if you take a look at their precommitted numbers you will see that they have been declining over the last few years. Their state associations have declined as well. Their membership numbers also. They have lost the loyalty of their som...
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Published 08/11/2014 12:56PM, by Dick Morgan
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I am going to talk about the last two “stake holders” in the sport. And these two are far and away the two most important and controversial entities in the entire spectrum of truck and tractor pulling.
4; The Sanctioning Bodies the people that organize the pullers and write the rules.
5; The Pullers, the people that bring their vehicles to a show.
The “Sanctioning Bodies”. This group I like to think of as the “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. They do a great job of writing good solid rules, they put together the schedules and provide the track and safety crews that make the pull run safely and smoothly. By and large they try and provide their member states with an organizational framework and a set of rules. Right or wrong sometimes the Sanctioning Bodies are viewed in a very negative why when it comes to revenue, money, purse money paid to pullers. Having never been a puller I can not say with any degree of certainty w...
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Published 08/08/2014 01:25PM, by Dick Morgan
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I have been thinking about the “stake holders” in Truck and Tractor pulling I have come to the conclusion after talking to several people that there are really five different “stake holders” in the sport.
For the first part of this opinion article I will be posting the first three of the “stake holders” .
I am going to list in the reverse order of their importance to the sport.
1; The Fan is the guy or gal that buys a ticket to attend the sport.
2; The Corporate Sponsors who pay the have their products advertised at the pull
3; The Promoters, the people that put on the pull.
4; will be posted Monday
5; will be posted Monday
The Fan; Unfortunately the sport of Truck and Tractor pulling really does not have a very strong corp of die hard pulling fans. While I realize this runs contrary to popular opinion I believe that the sport h...
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