Nearby Heavy Equipment Repair Program

Are you driving now ?
Do you have time to attend the class ?

 

Have you been diagnosed with AIDS or a rare form of cancer by a board certified physician? I get a kick out of how there's a new thread every week about how trucks are going to start driving themselves any day now so there's not much point in having a CDL but everyone has blinders on over other threats from emergent technologies:

Tesla Semi
Electric Semi Truck Companies to Look Out For
Electric Big Rigs Are Coming—and We Drive Four of Them
Electric vehicle start-up Nikola has begun production of its first battery-electric semitruck

While today's technology isn't ready to replace ALL trucks - batteries don't work well when it's cold or last long on the Rockies - government mandates keep creeping closer. As we saw with DEF, California doesn't care about grandfathering in your existing truck to meet their climate change fantasies and they're eager to ban diesel:

California set to ban all heavy diesel trucks and vans by 2045
California Gov. Newsom executive order bans gas, diesel cars by 2035
California shakes up auto industry, says all vans and trucks must be electric by 2024

It won't happen tomorrow, or next year but electric trucks are coming. They won't replace all trucks but they will reduce the demand for diesel techs faster than the existing pool of techs would normally leave the industry (layoffs). Yes, electric trucks will still break down and still need tires changed, but electric truck techs will be a lower skilled job that pays less. You will no longer need to tear an engine apart or worry about emissions, just unplug and replace whatever component is defective (battery, electric motor, wires, etc.).

 

Everybody thinks mechanics just fix trucks.........

 

Diesel techs offer happy endings? That would explain the rates they charge

 

Just saying there's more than just trucks that need to be repaired. Not everything revolves around the diesel engine. The last 2 years I've spent wrenching I haven't even touched an engine.

 

Wishful thinking. Did you notice how the years keep getting closer and they keep banning more things? I give it eight years on the outside. You will probably be able to coast for another 5 if you're willing to move to Alaska or some other winter hellscape.