I remember seeing the old books from Dad's time at the dealerships back in the 70's and early 80's. They actually had to do math problems, etc, etc as part of the lessons in order to troubleshoot hydraulic problems, etc. Personally I think the biggest problem is that the plaques, etc hanging around were given to 'the dealership' for sending x amount of employees to certain schools, or to one tech who went to a school and they now expect to do everything, including going behind the know nothings to fix their screwups. May be right, may be wrong, but this is sure how it seems sometimes.
Another thing having grown up with a Dad who worked at a couple of different dealerships, as a field mechanic, I've seen and heard firsthand the differences between the shop mechanics and the field mechanics. The field guys are the usually the only ones that know anything and the shop guys are the low men on the totem pole who still need to be trained....and get said training at the customers expense........
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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