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Developing an auto technician apprenticeship program is time-consuming and expensive. But the benefits make it worthwhile. To build a strong program, here are some suggestions from Beth Lucchesi, talent acquisition [...]

Byline: Lindsay VanHulle With dealership service technicians in short supply, General Motors says it's seeing some improvement toward building a talent pipeline. Enrollment in GM's Automotive Service Educational Program, which [...]

Byline: George Weykamp In a time when labor shortages are leaving many job openings unfilled, dealerships have had to compete for employees at every position. What Dave Wright Nissan-Subaru in [...]

Byline: C.J. Moore In her 30 years in the auto industry, Julie Herrera has learned several tricks of the trade. One piece of advice she has for other dealers: When [...]

Byline: Dan Shine David Peterson was never tempted to hit the links or put his toes in the sand after he sold his Louisville, Ky., Mercedes-Benz dealership in early January. [...]

Byline: Dan Shine Expecting an already overworked dealership service department to also find time to lay out a career path for its technicians 'is a little unrealistic,' said Matrix Trade [...]

From the time he was a little boy, Tom Palermo, 38, knew he wanted to work in the automotive service industry. Reflecting on 20 years of working as an automotive [...]

Building The Foundation * The I-CAR Education Foundation was created in 1991 to solve a problem. The collision repair industry was facing a critical shortage of entry-level employees. The career [...]

We often wonder what's on the minds of young people these days. Find out what the next generation of autobody repairers is looking for in an employer and the industry [...]

From the time he was a little boy, Tom Palermo, 38, knew he wanted to work in the automotive service industry. Reflecting on 20 years of working as an automotive [...]

From the time he was a little boy, Tom Palermo, 38, knew he wanted to work in the automotive service industry. Reflecting on 20 years of working as an automotive [...]

Do you need to send your technicians backs to school? Here's what several offer in the way of specialized, full-time classes.... If there is one buzzword for the automotive service [...]

Knowledge--your most important tool. Spend some time in business--or at business school--and you'll hear your share of similar slogans breaking down some facet of work into a grand generalization. You, [...]

ONE OF THE MOST misunderstood subjects within the collision repair industry is the difference between training and certification. This is all too often demonstrated when I hear collision repairers describe [...]

ATLANTA -- Becoming a vehicle mechanic can be done through on-the-job training or trade school. But what about going a different route and starting in the Army? The U.S. military […]

It's one thing to sell a variety of specialized parts that are functional, effective and a worthwhile investment for retail customers. It's quite another to have dealers truly qualified to [...]

Such is the case with continuing education in the collision repair industry. This makes it difficult to determine whether to provide your techs with training to increase their skills and [...]

Byline: Andrew Thurlow Dealership service managers are complaining about a rusty old clunker that's gumming up their operations: America's vocational education system. Traditional schools are steering more students toward college [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle By the time the 2015 aluminum-body Ford F-150 hits dealerships in the fourth quarter, thousands of collision repair technicians, insurance estimators, Ford field staffers and others will [...]

If you have read anything I've written, you have probably noticed that I am always suggesting that you get out of your shop, attend training, meet some new people and [...]

If you have read anything I've written, you have probably noticed that I am always suggesting that you get out of your shop, attend training, meet some new people and [...]

Hyundai Motor India Foundation (HMIF) opened its 'Automobile Servicing Training Centre' at Government Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Ulundurpet in Tamil Nadu. The Foundation also plans to establish 10 such centres [...]

Moog Automotive Inc. has opened a 30,000-square-foot automotive training facility in St. Louis, MO. The facility, called the World Training Center, offers complete tools and equipment for automobile technicians who will be trained to troubleshoot and repair various Moog products, including Moog suspension steering components and Wagner brake systems. It is scheduled to conduct 140 training classes for 2,000 students in 1996., A technician's fantasy island becomes reality Moog Automotive, long a leader in chassis training, has opened a state-of-the-art World Training Center in St. Louis. The 30,000-square-foot facility has four classrooms [...]

Here is why Nissan wants more training for its dealership technicians. * Sales growth: Nissan expects a 39% increase in the number of Nissan and Infiniti vehicles over the next [...]

Byline: Ralph Kisiel Dealerships that want to sell the new Ford Escape Hybrid must send at least one service technician to a two-day training class. So far, 1,850 service-bay technicians [...]

It is a well-known fact that the number of qualified employees is dwindling--counterpeople on the parts side of the business and technicians on the service side. Numerous organizations are trying [...]

When NASCAR and partner Universal Technical Institute, Inc. held their grand opening for the NASCAR Technical Institute last May in Mooresville, N.C., I, like the rest of the visitors, hardly [...]

Consider the irony: college graduates struggle to find jobs in a tight employment market, while the automotive industry struggles to meet the demand for skilled labor. Auto dealers are competing [...]

BMW of North America LLC is testing a program that pairs six minority technicians-in-training with master technician/mentors at four BMW dealerships in Atlanta. It plans to take the program national [...]

Sales staff * Learn about awd system, as well as awd and 4wd systems marketed by competitors * Answer questions about Saturn's CVT and other innovations Service and body shop [...]

Premier Manufacturing Support Services, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, has been certified by the Department of Labor for its technical training center in Princeton, IN. This certification means that the U.S. Department [...]

Registration has begun for schools to participate in the sixth annual Automotive Career Education Day (ACED), which is being sponsored by the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR) on Oct. [...]

The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) will conduct a special testing session this year at NACE, during which the organization will offer all five of its collision certification [...]

More than 5,000 schools across the country will be invited to join the Coordinating Committee For Automotive Repair and the automotive industry on October 25,2000, to educate more than 150,000 [...]

The National Institute of Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) announced the introduction of the fourth test in the certification series for Parts Specialists. Developed at the request of the GM Parts [...]

Jendham, Inc., introduced a new training program on Chrysler Engine Control Systems for vehicles with fuel injection in September 1999. This new training program is made to teach technicians how [...]

WHEN SCOTT SWEHLA WAS NAMED 2005 Toyota/ASE Collision Repair Technician of the Year, it was an outstanding achievement for him as an individual--and a unique accomplishment for Freeman Toyota of [...]

In the changing scenario of tire and wheel technology, the need of training for tire dealer's technicians and the requirement of new-generation equipment in the installation of ultra-high performance (UHP) tire and wheel packages are examined.

PUT YOURSELF IN THE FOLLOWING POSITION. You decide to transform an existing repair business--a frame shop, for example--into a full-service collision center. Your first steps are fairly obvious: Make some [...]

Recently, a shop manager sent several of his technicians to I CAR classes, 'because the insurance company made me.' He did not attend the classes himself because he had taken [...]

Although the nation's vo-tech schools fortunately averted the severe financial woes it would have faced with the proposed cut of the Carl Perkins Act--a $1.2 billion grant that many of [...]

The early, slower months of the year are the right time to train tire technicians and maintenance people in proper workplace safety.