funwithfuel
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Good luck on your new gig. Hope it works out well for you. Will you be enrolled in their THINK BIG program?
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I need some guidance
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DMiller
Senior Member
Hopefully the guy that almost ruined the old D6 in a Previous Post is not your trainer or lead man at Zeigler!!
Nige
Senior Member
If they haven’t mentioned it so far, ask.......
Being that I am not familiar with company policy yet I will wait to answer until I know for sure there is no stipulation on sharing wages
funwithfuel
Senior Member
You never stop! Continuing education is key to sustainability. For you to remain marketable, you have to be current. Don't get left behind.
Nige
Senior Member
The Think Big training is all done on-line AFAIK. You take the modules as and when you have time available to do them.
92U 3406
Senior Member
We have ThinkBig's here at our shop. Being that we have apprenticeships here for skilled trades they do have to attend a college for school every year. As far as I know, only one college in the province is set up to take the ThinkBig students. As to what actually happens at the college I can't really say. I can always quiz the students on it I guess.
I went through the Think Big program here in the states. For us it was 8-10 weeks in the shop and 8 weeks in a compressed semester at school, alternating for five semesters. I received a Diesel Technology associates degree for it.
What you are talking about sounds like Cat’s online classes
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
If you go by a painter supply shop they might have these gum sticker erasers that you chuck up in a drill motor. The eraser is sacrificial, as it goes, it rolls up the edges of the sticker and it all falls to the floor.
Or maybe just get one of those red circles with a slash through it and stick over the JD sticker, cheap and easy
kshansen
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This was one of the things that bugged me about where I worked. For the first say 30 years training was considered important. About half the guys in the shop each year would be sent to a weeks training at one of the manufactures, Cat, Cummins, Mack, and so on. Then at least once a year they would bring in someone, maybe a dealer or parts supplier to give a two day seminar at out shop, often this included mechanics from other branches of the company in the state.
Then new "management" came along that had the idea that training was a "expense" and not an "investment" and the major goal was to cut expenses any way he could! About the only thing that came close to "training" was getting to attend what I felt was more of a sales pitch for Cat ET than actual training on how to make full use of it. Maybe three hours in class room and another hour or so wandering around out in the yard playing with the machines, five or six guys to a laptop and one instructor for a class total of about thirty students!
funwithfuel
Senior Member
And thats a crying shame. Current technology should always be kept current
DMiller
Senior Member
Friend of mine still does Rental Fleet Truck mechanic update training, he will school up for a few months, note those aspects he will allow the shop workers to deal with(Warranty is still Engine Company's) and run the route of shops in that fleet to train the boys up.
funwithfuel
Senior Member
Hell I'm almost 50 and back in class. Gotta get certificate for warranty pay. If not, company takes a hit on warranty claims. The wanna know your guys are current.
Yeah, don't ever turn down training of any kind. It all adds up and it's yours to keep. When you stop learning, its time to give it up
Yeah, don't ever turn down training of any kind. It all adds up and it's yours to keep. When you stop learning, its time to give it up
Welder Dave
Senior Member
Take all the training you can get if the company is paying for it or paying you for that matter. It makes you a more valuable employee. Do you want to keep the job or be looking for another one? A friend of mine worked in a big vessel shop. Things were slow and there was talk of layoffs. He casually mentioned it to the foreman. The foreman asked him how many (welding) tickets he had... 14. "You don't have to worry some of these guys only have 3." If it's an apprenticeship you have to go to technical school. Don't blow a good opportunity.
Nige
Senior Member
Work in the principle of - "The day I stop learning is the day they put me in a wooden box" and you'll do OK.
DMiller
Senior Member
I have been out of the industry as a full timer for some twenty plus years, I try to keep up with those aspects that I MAY need and keep abreast of new equipment availed to the streets. The 3406E I was driving was pretty simple in as much as codes retrieval, was also easy to read on Technicians Laptop where I had schooling on those Eons ago but had not forgotten. My training and self learning kept me ahead of many of the faults machines have dealt me over the years.
funwithfuel
Senior Member
The C15 and ISX were new tech when i got out of road trucks.
92U 3406
Senior Member
I dodged the DPF bullet for a while. I left on road in 2010 but the newest trucks in the fleet were '07 with EGR only engines. On the plus side, on road worked out a lot of the bugs for us
DMiller
Senior Member
On the electronics engines, best advice I ever received was "Don't forget it is still an engine with Mechanical Faults that will trigger electronic malfunctions" Just fixing electronics codes many times would not fix the fault as I witnessed mechanics throw high dollar parts at machines.