We are hosting "Mock" Interviews for our program-completing students.
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We are hosting "Mock" Interviews for our program-completing students.
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Join us this Saturday, September 23rd, from 11 am - 2 pm for an electrifying experience! Test drive the future at our EV Ride and Drive event, featuring the latest electric vehicles from top brands. Get behind the wheel and feel the power of sustainable driving!
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We are proud to announce that Durango Motor Company was voted 1st place for Best Auto Dealership and 1st place for Best Oil/Lube Service in the 2023 Best of Durango awards!
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Our Express Program is continuing to grow! Our aim is to empower entry-level technicians with mentorship, skills, and knowledge to soar in their careers. Through extensive training and hands-on practice, graduates achieve mastery in stand-alone service, basic maintenance, and factory online training, fueling their career journey with confidence and expertise for the next step in their technician journey. We are so proud of our express team!
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Take 3 minutes to complete the Voice of Technician Survey to be entered to win over $10k in tools, swag, training resources, and more: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCWYKKQ
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Great to be back for 23-24! We hope everyone is off to a great start this school year!
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First day of fall is the 23rd of September!
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Our Service Team is the heart of our success. Join us and be part of something great.
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There's still time to complete the Voice of Technician Survey. Lots of good prizes to be had and it only takes about 3 minutes. Here's the link - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SCWYKKQ
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Our team supports a really great Fall Event called Touch-A-Truck. We bring a mobile unit and a semi tractor for the kids to touch and see what it's like in our industry. Super fun event and our volunteers for the event are paid and get a Gift Card from us for their support!
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We've received fantastic responses from our 2023 Voice of Technician Survey so far, and we deeply appreciate the feedback. We're excited about the opportunity to use this input to educate our industry.
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Want to make more money as a Technician?
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Today, the average age of a vehicle on the road is 12.5 years old. This is good business for many dealership service departments and independent repair facilities. As of course the older the vehicle, the less likely it will be to fall under factory warranties and warranty extensions. But this may possibly pose a problem for the modern entry level technician. If the average vehicle age is 12.5 years old, this also means that even older vehicles are staying on the road much longer. Some maybe older than your newest technicians! Why does this matter? It will be important to start new technicians out on the right foot and in the correct mindset. Older, uncared for, improperly repaired vehicles (let’s not beat around the bush and call it what it is, junk) flooding repair shops may not be a reflection of what these new technicians were trained to work with. Older vehicles tend to be far more likely to have higher levels of rust, have components that are more difficult remove, are more likely to have fasteners and other parts that will break if extreme care is not used. While these vehicles entering repair facilities is part of the business. It maybe in a shop manager and/or owners interest to great consideration in a vehicles age when dispatching work. Some shops have vehicle age restrictions to keep older vehicles that may bring excess issues and aggravation out of the shop. Such as no vehicles older than 20 years old, or vehicles built before 1996 (pre OBDII).
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This is also another area to specialize for techs who want to work on those older cars. If a shop sets an age limit and only wants to work on new stuff, folks that like the older projects can sell that service. I've worked on everything from 1949 to 2024, and I am more familiar with the stuff from 1980 up, but as long as I can access the information, I can fix it.
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For sure. As long as accurate info is available, anything is possible. Main point I’m driving home is that it’s not going to be realistic for entry level techs to be comfortable on working on vehicles older than themselves. 20 year old vehicle technology today, is realistically equivalent to what 40 year old vehicle technology 20 years ago. Considering how much vehicle technology has advanced in the past 20 years.
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