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Tom Wood Porsche

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14 minutes ago

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We’re proud of our porter Chaz and his clear vision for the future! 🚗 As a member of the Class of 2025, Chaz is already setting big goals
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Toyota of Corvallis

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about 1 hour ago

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"Always Feel Like a VIP" – Thank You for the Kind Words! 🌟
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Dan's Auto Centre

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about 2 hours ago

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Not much better than having the shop doors open on a perfect spring day.
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Hot Rod High School

Lake Stevens, WA

about 4 hours ago

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The greatest complement I receive every year is students saying, "If it weren't for auto shop I would drop out."
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Tom Wood Volkswagen Noblesville

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about 5 hours ago

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🔧 Start your engines—and your career!
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Tom Wood Volkswagen Noblesville

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about 5 hours ago

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Would you be important is it to receive information about regular tech training programs or apprenticeships in your place of work?
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Tom Wood Porsche

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about 13 hours ago

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Happy Birthday to our Service Advisor Shane!
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Fields Jaguar Land Rover Jacksonville

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1 day ago

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Fields Land Rover had a Casino Event Celebration for the the Service Department for successfully breaking the service record!!! The top 3 employees each received a $200 gift card.
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Belton High School

Belton, TX

1 day ago

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ASE certs

Our Auto Tech students earned a total of 58 entry level ASE certs this school year!
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Hot Rod High School

Lake Stevens, WA

1 day ago

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Basic Class Lesson of the Day: Tire Inspection
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Richland Community College (Automotive Technology)

Decatur, IL

1 day ago

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Finishing up the Year

We are finishing up are Spring semester and have successfully completed out first full year for out EV/Hybrid Courses.
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WrenchWay

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Happy Mother’s Day to All, Shop Moms Included

Whether you're a mom or just bring those mom vibes to work, which “mom move” have you caught yourself doing in the shop?
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Lunghamer Ford of Owosso

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1 day ago

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Happy Birthday Jim!!
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Tom Wood Volkswagen

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1 day ago

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Jr certified technician working on a intake manifold on a Jetta.
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Tom Wood Porsche

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1 day ago

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Happy Birthday to our Gold Meister Tech Dan!
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Russell Wickham

Profit sharing. I like simple things. "We made X, our expenses were Y, your share of that is Z."

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Jay Goninen

I like profit sharing as well. Early in my career, I worked for a company that did profit sharing. I found it motivating to a point but they really pushed us to put it into our retirement account. Obviously doing so results in greater long term results but being young, I didn't love the lack of the immediate payoff. Not sure if that makes sense or not. Would definitely look at it differently now.

Craig Tomczyk

I’m fine with hourly plus a performance bonus. Or straight hourly depending on the rate.

Craig - How would you want to a performance bonus to be structured? Paid on billable hours, efficiency or something else?

I would probably need something that focuses on the shops performance as a whole as I bounce around the shop quite a bit.

Great point, Craig. A preferred plan might be different per tech. Hard to manage multiple pay plans but could be very beneficial to the shop.

Paul Garcia

Jay it is really hard to go off of efficiency standards due to the nature of the beast. The tech hanging suspension and brakes every day is going to be a lot more efficient than the tech doing invasive electrical and diesel / transmission heavy line work. It's possible to be efficient doing these tasks, albeit a lot more unrealistic in how efficient based on standard scales.

Totally agree, Paul! I think that's why I'm so interested in hearing what techs think is fair for a bonus structure. There are times where I feel like the way we structure a bonus punishes the best techs. With that being said, we're starting to see more and more shops improve in this regard.

Dale Techel

Flat rate is totally fine but rates were stagnant for decades. Got a $14 flat rate increase when I went to quit 2 yrs ago. I've talked to other techs, fleet, dealer and aftermarket, almost everyone told me they received some sort of big bonus or pay increase during covid pandemic years.

I think that's a positive, Dale. It does feel like we're moving in the right direction. I also believe that keeping the conversation going has helped shops understand topics like this at a different level. Is any part of our industry perfect? Of course not but hoping that continuing to help each side get a better understanding is going to be huge moving forward. Always appreciate your comments, Dale!

Marcus Meeks

In my experience hourly or flat rate with tiered bonuses have been very motivating. If you turn x number of your you get $y more per hour with the dollar amount increase with the higher hour tiers. Downside is you can get techs saving hours at the end of a pay if they know those hours won’t get them to another tier and the comfortable where they are hour wise.

Great to know, Marcus! I really like that style of a system as well. Simple to understand with some great upside for techs. Appreciate your thoughts on this.

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Tom Wood Porsche

Toyota of Corvallis

Dan's Auto Centre

Hot Rod High School

Tom Wood Volkswagen Noblesville

Tom Wood Volkswagen Noblesville

Tom Wood Porsche

Fields Jaguar Land Rover Jacksonville

Belton High School

ASE certs

Hot Rod High School

Richland Community College (Automotive Technology)

Finishing up the Year

WrenchWay

Happy Mother’s Day to All, Shop Moms Included

Lunghamer Ford of Owosso

Tom Wood Volkswagen

Tom Wood Porsche

Russell Wickham

Jay Goninen

Craig Tomczyk

Jay Goninen

Craig Tomczyk

Jay Goninen

Paul Garcia

Jay Goninen

Dale Techel

Jay Goninen

Marcus Meeks

Jay Goninen

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