New Forum: Diesel Mechanics

So far most of the posts are coming from regular truck owners and not mechanics. These guys need to be directed to the proper sections of the garage and/or oem specific for their questions.

 

That is the thing. If this specific section is for mechanic to mechanic, then having regular owners asking their questions here is just going to clutter up this section to the point where a mechanic asking a legitimate question is going to be missed. This new section has been here only a few days and already I can see myself skipping it because I am not going to filter through 8 questions to finally find one asked by an actual mechanic. If everyone just dumps every question in the first section they come across, those questions get buried quickly and therefore skipped over and missed. I would suspect that is why the forum is broken down into all those specific categories so the proper question goes the proper section where it can be focused on. Just my opinion on that.

 

I agree with @Heavyd. I think the subforum would work much better if it was for mechanic to mechanic type questions or questions related to tooling/shop setup.

 

I agree with Heavyd as well. I love the idea of a spot where techs can ask a question and get answered by a fellow tech. Only problem is there is no control as to who asks or answers questions. If I have a problem on a unit at work and I have diagnosed what I can and still have not found the problem I have posted questions here and have had some good info given in the past. The problem is when my problem gets passed over by a tech with a great amount of experience because there are just to many redundant or off topic questions that unit I'm working on does not get repaired as fast as it could. Also I want to know that the person answering my question is also a tech as I feel the info would be more accurate as the person has probly ran across the same problem. You get a lot of non techs on here answering questions and I feel the accuracy will suffer. This is not a crack at drivers as I am a licensed truck and auto tech, and have also served some time behind the wheel of a truck pulling flatbed long haul. If I have usefull info or experience on a subject I will answer but I will not answer a question just to attempt to appear knowlegable or because I heard some other know it all say it. I belong to a type of "mechanic only" group on social media and it was great at first. Now there has been thousands of people join who are highschool students who claim they are going to be techs, drivers, back yard wannabees and there even was a guy who admitted he was a dentist that is interested in the topic. I don't post questions now as the info is not reliable and most of the time its trolls insulting and causing arguments. I fear the same will happen here. I also don't have a solution. I do love the idea if it can be closely monitored.

 

Just an expansion on my previous post:

I can't speak for the other techs but I see this subforum as a place for us to discuss those tricky little problems that stump every tech at the shop. Not the common everyday problems we see posted all the time like how to change a burned out headlight for example. I could also see it being useful for discussing tools, shop layout and questions regarding technical schools and apprenticeships. I realize not all of this is trucking related but one could argue that techs are just as important to this industry as drivers and brokers.

 

Perhaps if you made this sub-section "password protected" you might avoid all the DUMB & Dumber Questions from People with NFI.........

Just thinking out aloud...