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Spartan Chassis and the Illinois Fire Apparatus Mechanics Association are offering a series of weekly training classes for fire mechanics. The classes will cover engine, transmission, electrical and air system [...]

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 [...]

Byline: BySteve Finlay ALLEN PARK, MI. - On one side of the street is a hanger-like new building where the Detroit Lions train on an indoor football field. On the [...]

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 [...]

DEARBORN, MI-Held here Oct. 5 through 7, the iATN Annual Convention's activities continued as scheduled, despite recent world events. Approximately 260 of the 291 registrants attended, representing 40 states and […]

The constant demand for auto mechanics is keeping training classes full and employers on the lookout for qualified workers. Mike Feikert, service manager for Steven Buick Infinity Saab, says the [...]

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 [...]

Teaching tomorrow's dealership staff is a labor of love and frustration For 19 years, Jay Knobbe, service director for Bernard Chevrolet, Libertyville, IL has taught automotive technology at a local [...]

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 230 shop owners and technicians gathered at the Indianapolis-based Lincoln Tech Facility to attend trainer Jim Linder's LTS Ignition seminar. The March seminar, co-sponsored by Lincoln Technical Institute, […]

The automotive service industry has been trying to change its image for decades now. If I were to name the companies, associations and organizations that have poured their time, talent […]

For the first time in its 20-year history, the Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS) Worldwide has a home of its own. The association moved into its new international headquarters and […]

It is now impossible for the owner to service or repair most of the systems on today's new vehicles. You are the professional that every car owner needs. Every year […]

The Pro Class Advanced Technical Training series, offered by Dana Engine Controls' Clevite Engine Parts Division and Sunnen Products Co., includes four courses featuring hands-on and classroom training. The series […]

Federal-Mogul Corp. is conducting technical seminars on subjects such as brake diagnostics, automotive electronics, engine sealing systems, import driveability, domestic driveability, fuel system diagnostic principles, and steering, suspension and driveline. […]

The key to providing quality brake service is to be a good investigator. Has a customer ever brought a vehicle to your shop and made the statement "I think I […]

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 [...]

GRAPEVINE -- Park Place Lexus Grapevine, which just opened its doors Jan. 24, has launched a unique mentoring program to head off a possible shortage of qualified mechanics. Park Place's [...]

NEWARK, NJ -- Conceived as a living memorial to a dealer's teen-age son killed in a car crash, an educational facility here is training mostly out-of-work inner city youths to [...]

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 [...]

In the aftermarket, the heroes of automotive technicians are the NASCAR team members," said Steve Boguski, director of NASCAR's automotive aftermarket program. That's why NASCAR is lending its image to […]

CHICAGO -- CONNECTIVITY is a major factor in how many drivers today choose their next car. It also is a new factor in how technicians are addressing the problems vehicles […]

Ross Schofield works hard to keep his repair shop, Marathon Automotive, right out there on the edge. He says the shop is on not only the cutting of technology, but […]

Most of us who join the automotive industry at a young age end up spending our entire lives in the business. It just gets in your blood! Shop owners and […]

Auto repair and business operators such as Ottawa's Roy Rump and Sons avail of Canadian Automotive Repair Service Council's online courses to learn about increasingly complex auto systems. Key information and views on the online training system are presented.

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 [...]

A profile of Matt Bushnell, a Hudson Valley Community College student is presented. Bushnell is being trained to diagnose and repair automobiles with the help of computers and mathematics. He is the kind of person being sought from the present generation to replace the automotive mechanics. Bushnell and another automotive technology student, Todd Clark won the National Automotive Technology Competition in New York City.

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.

Anew study being led by Literacy .Northwest in Thunder Bay, and funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, is examining a new trend that shows modern-day skilled labourers [...]

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 [...]