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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