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Actually most of the trucks you see are owned by the promoter. Basically the only monster trucks you see on TV are Monster Jam. All of the big named trucks are owned by Monster Jam or Feld Entertainment. There are like 7 different Grave Diggers running each weekend. 2 Mad d's, 2 blue thunders, 3 el toro locos, 4 monster mutts and on and on. They are starting to put some sponsors on the trucks (grinder sponsored by Advanced), but not much. Several of the independant trucks have sponsors on them. if you were at the indy show you noticed the Equalizer truck sponsored by Lucas Oil. Bounty hunter for years was sponsered by CSC. The 2 dodge trucks were sponsored by chrysler. most of the smaller arena shows, showcase trucks with sponsors. One other major factor with monster trucks is the fact that they do not race for a purse. They have a set amount that they preform for. Thus in the past several of these events were riged, thats why monster trucks have a bad name in the racing industry. I can tell you of all the show I have worked for MJ, never once have i herd them set anything up in racing.
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