Mechanics Certificate: Will it help?

Go get the certificate. Right now, things are in a definite turmoil and trucking is headed for a major shakeup. We just can't keep absorbing the "steering wheel holders" who don't know (and don't want to) know one end of the truck from another. They're costing the industry a bundle with their "ho-hum" attituide and it can't last.

 

you just have to hope it doesnt take the same turn as in the construction industry. Starts with non educated or non apprenticed people who think they know it all, then demand for more wages from those people, then the industry starts to hire " cheaper labor". and now the majority of them are just that, "cheaper labor" or non documented workers that will soak up all the work for little to nothing and do a horrible job at it ...

 

You can try and find a job hauling garbage, concrete or gravel.

 

It'll never help you getting a drivers job.

It'll cost money to get that mechanics certificate. Usually MORE MONEY than a truckers certificate.

You won't be able to "fall back on it", as a job or career change, because it'll take THOUSANDS of dollars to buy all the tools you will need. Then comes the experience you WILL NEED to get a mechanics job.

No one will hire you as a full fledged diesel mechanic right out of the box. You will need to work as an apprentices for a while, doing every dirty job there is, and work all hours of the day an any over time the shop requires. Otherwise, that employer will NOT NEED you either.

Do you want to "fall back" on the diesel mechanics certificate at say, 30, 40 or 50 years of age, and NOT have all the tools, or EXPERIENCE you needed at an earlier age???

best to go back to college, EARN A REAL DEGREE from there, then you would be "old enough" to go to trucking school, and get on the road.

 

FROM EXPERIENCE the tools will cost a good amount. i have about 30K in tools between my 2 side box's and top and bottom. Dont go cheap,your tools are your lively hood. Cheap tools break,strip and work like ####. Spend the extra dough on good stuff.

and you can find a job right out school its likes trucking. Do your research to find the best option.

 

Which school are you planning to go to for diesel mechanic training?

 

Oh, so you are "well off" then, meaning you are playing the game of "what do I really wanna do some day"???

There is only going to be so much money to go around, and some day, believe it or not, it will NO Longer be there for such a privileged person.

To work in a garage, you will need more than one tool box.

I do not believe any one said you were shy.

You will still need current experience and references to get a job as a mechanic. Why do you think you will lose your CDL?? You got a lead foot, or an accident history about you??

"Real degree" students are indeed finding work difficult, but at least they HAVE a degree.

You are not "staying tin the industry" by simply holding a tattered and folded up mechanics certificate. You are falling behind in the technology and repair procedures.

Well, as you say, you don't care about the money, gramma and granpa have money to foot your bills.
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good luck.

 

Have you talked to the guy that is shuttling trailers at the plant to see what his plans are or if you would be a "shoe in"? Granted shuffling trailers around is not quite the same as OTR or local work but I'm guessing it's a pretty good job.