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From: Lance (Trucking Industry Maintenance)
Date: 25 Apr 2003
Time: 23:50:43
The newer trucks these days seem to have so many more electronic modules, brains and accessories to help them run efficiently that it takes constant training to keep mechanics up to speed on understanding how they work, what makes them tick and how to trouble shoot. Meanwhile it is getting hard to keep good mechanics these days. go to any shop these days and see a laptop computer on top of a tool box hooked up to some black box on in the trucks engine compartment. These truths mean that ASE tests are harder, more comprehensive and time consuming cutting into the bottom line of repair facilities. Thus increasing shop rates and upsetting fleet owners, independents who are tapped out due to fuel costs and government fleet owners. Some truck manufacturers have mobile training centers like International, which had a chance to see in Denver once, looked kind of like the Blitzmobile and it makes it way around the country training everyone. ASE has over 49,000 certified truck mechanics, but are all those individuals worth their salt? Some yes and some no, but the ongoing training is s necessity in truck maintenance as much as any industry. With all the new OEM parts, many manufacturers of trucks, this issue is serious. Motorhomes are similar now too: http://www.holidayrambler.com/holidays/archive/01novdec/tnew.html ---- Check out Sensor Magazine and get their online newsletter to see all the new thins they have going on in this field.
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