Tag: diesel mechanics

Dealers

AED Foundation to offer high school equipment aptitude test

In an effort to give 13- to 17-year-olds a way to test their desire to enter the equipment industry, the AED Foundation has created a Construction Career Aptitude Test. The test, says the Foundation, would “allow students the opportunity to see where they stand before committing to an industry program. Students can then make an […]

August 14, 2020

Dealers

To fill growing diesel technician gap, dealers, OEMs, schools step up incentives, cooperation (Part 2 in series)

Discover how dealers, manufacturers, schools, and more are working together to help ease the industry's technician shortage in this Equipment World special.

June 4, 2019

Dealers

Alta Equipment named 2018 Big Iron Dealer of the Year

Alta Equipment's construction division in New Hudson, Michigan, has been named the 2018 Big Iron Dealer of the Year by Equipment World. Get the details here.

October 10, 2018

Trucks

Electric trucks will still require skilled mechanics, but ask less of their time

Even though maintenance costs will likely be reduced, electric commercial trucks will still require repairmen and it will be a sophisticated process.

May 15, 2018

Class 7-8

Diesel mechanic ponders what Tesla Semi means for his future, goes viral

While electric trucks and vans are generating a lot of headlines lately, they’re still a long, long way from running internal combustion engines out of the market. In the interim, there are mechanics out there wondering what their future might look like in a world of electric powertrains. For instance, a semi mechanic recently posted […]

December 15, 2017

Workforce

A Kansas tech school began recruiting diesel mechanics like college athletes and now they have a waiting list

Recruiting diesel technology students hasn’t been a challenge for Washburn Institute of Technology, based in Topeka, Kansas. “If I could get a bigger space, I could get 100 students,” said Clark Coco, Washburn. A former college basketball coach, Coco came up with the idea of using the college athlete recruitment model to recruit tech students. […]

September 8, 2014

Business

Maintenance

Fleet managers SPEAK OUT on the technician shortage What are the problems, what are the solutions … if any? By Tom Jackson Doug King knows all too well that good diesel mechanics are hard to find. King is an Association of Equipment Management Professionals, Certified Equipment Manager* who oversees more than 900 pieces of heavy […]

April 27, 2012