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  • Kyle Chapman Motors

    Kyle Chapman Motors

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    Top Shop Challenge: Who has the coolest toolbox in your shop? Tell us about it. Better yet, show us some pics.

    This new year we will be showcasing the best toolbox of the month and this month's entry goes to Byron! He is one of our many talented technicians at the shop with a large two-part, blue container that is compartmentalized by the various tools and supplies for the vehicles at the shop.

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  • Lee's Summit Honda

    Lee's Summit Honda

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    Top Shop Challenge: Who has the coolest toolbox in your shop? Tell us about it. Better yet, show us some pics.

    Now for our shop best box...Jeff Allison! He's been with us for 37 years. We appreciate all this hard work and know this box will help him fix all our Customer vehicles.

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  • Lee's Summit Honda

    Lee's Summit Honda

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    Top Shop Challenge: Who has the coolest toolbox in your shop? Tell us about it. Better yet, show us some pics.

    After much deliberation and voting in our shop, here is Zion!!! He won the nicest box of all our 15 Technicians. It's a little over a year old so definitely still shiny. He's very proud and shows it with that big smile on his face.

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  • Midwest Transit Equipment, Inc.

    Midwest Transit Equipment, Inc.

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    Top Shop Challenge: What do you feel needs to change in order to attract more kids into our industry?

    From our Service Manager Lyndon “In today’s industry I feel kids are never given the option to explore anything in the trades. Most schools put their resources in test taking or sports and in turn that takes away from the trades. To attract more kids into our industry it needs to be normalized to have a physical labor job. We need to be honest with kids that you don’t need a college degree to make money. We should normalize introducing the trades at a young age and let them know it’s a viable path."

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  • Sullivans Car Care Center

    Sullivans Car Care Center

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    Technician Spotlight: Tell us about yourself. What is your name, role, and number of years you’ve been in the industry?

    My name is Tom and im a B-tech and have been in the industry for 33 years.

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  • WrenchWay

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    We want input from our members. Can you help us come up with interesting industry poll questions?

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  • Tom Wood Volkswagen

    Tom Wood Volkswagen

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    Top Shop Challenge: Who has the coolest toolbox in your shop? Tell us about it. Better yet, show us some pics.

    Here at Tom Wood VW, everybody has the coolest toolbox! That's because we provide each technician with a toolbox and a workbench. Some of them decorate them with lights and certification magnets, to make them their own. But we feel that our techs have enough debts for just their tools, that they don't need to be drowning under toolbox debt as well.

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  • Import Performance Auto Repair

    Import Performance Auto Repair

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    Top Shop Challenge: What do you feel needs to change in order to attract more kids into our industry?

    In my area of Central Oregon, kids are attracted to the industry. They love cars and enjoy working on their own cars. My son’s high school is full of these kids! The problem is getting them on the right path to lead them into an auto repair shop. I think parents and the schools could do much better with guiding these kids into this future. I personally went straight into a technical school after high school, all because they came to our auto class and gave a presentation. My son’s high school does not even have an auto program! Its not good!

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  • Russell Wickham

    Russell Wickham

    I spoke a couple weeks ago about taking the long cut, but there are pitfalls outside of the job taking longer to complete. In this case it got very expensive very quickly because two connectors broke and at $100 apiece, I'm on the hook.

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  • Sullivans Car Care Center

    Sullivans Car Care Center

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    Technician Spotlight: Tell us about yourself. What is your name, role, and number of years you’ve been in the industry?

    Paul is our head technician and has been in the industry for 24 years.

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  • Pacific BMW

    Pacific BMW

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    Technician Spotlight: Tell us about yourself. What is your name, role, and number of years you’ve been in the industry?

    Mac Campos, Master Body Technician, 5 years of experience in the body shop

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  • Walser Toyota

    Walser Toyota

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    Top Shop Challenge: What do you feel needs to change in order to attract more kids into our industry?

    We need to increase awareness--communication is a big thing. We don’t explain the why, the career path, or what we’re about as much as we should. A lot of new techs come in with a misunderstanding of what they've signed up for. We need to show people what the path looks like, from school and education to training, to implementing those things in the shop.

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  • WrenchWay

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    The age-old debate: Do you refer to yourself as a technician or mechanic? In a recent poll, 46% of our audience said “technician” while another 41% said it doesn’t matter.

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    Russell Wickham

    Mechanic, technician, grease monkey, parts slinger, wrench, goober, whatever, I literally do not care. I actually think that's a very big problem because I am highly skilled at what I do thanks to an expert teacher. In the military, my verse was Psalm 144:1, "Blessed be the Lord my rock who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight." When I left the military, I prayed, "Father, my business is no longer war, but if you can teach my hands to war, can you also teach them to wrench?" He sends me just enough that I struggle with to keep me humble, but we fix a lot of cars, so when I say I am highly skilled, that's not me bragging. As a highly skilled person, I should be concerned with the terms used to address members of this trade. However, I'm not because at least here in the United States, any person with a quick mouth and a few tools can call themselves a mechanic or "technician" and get a job, screw everything up for everyone and not get fired because, "He sells lots of parts and turns lots of hours and we need him." Not everyone can be highly skilled, but everyone could be ethical and they are not, which gives the industry a bad name. So, when someone asks me, I tell them, "I am a wrench." "Well, what do you do?" "I fix cars."

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