MANAGING PUBLIC SECTOR VEHICLES & EQUIPMENT
Paul Cupka, maintenance facility superintendent for Fairfax County’s Department of Vehicle Services in Virginia, talks maintenance technician shortages.
Cost and inventory are among the factors in deciding whether a fleet should own its tools or provide an allowance for technicians to purchase their own.
The employee in charge of installing equipment into new police vehicles retired, and the position was not filled, leaving at least 14 new cars collecting dust.
For fleets facing a technician shortage, a temporary technician at your shop can help reduce vehicle downtime and costs.
What’s preventing young people from becoming automotive technicians? Is it actually the great career many fleet managers say it is?
One benefit of the fleet community is the ability to learn from each other’s good (and bad) experiences. Fleet managers share the initiatives that have found them success, and offer guidance on the challenges they faced along the way.
The ASE Education Foundation and S/P2 have formed a partnership to develop and distribute a mentoring program for the automotive industry to address the technician shortage.
Mohave County, Ariz., automotive technicians and other fleet workers are getting salary bumps averaging 15.8% thanks to a new “hot jobs” designation.
In a new report, the TechForce Foundation is predicting that demand for new vehicle technicians over the next ten years will be three times higher than was previously expected.
The Ventura County (Calif.) fleet has benefited from its internship program with Oxnard College, optimizing duties at its operation while helping to address the technician shortage.