 And we're live. Hey there. What is happening everybody right here on YouTube? Thanks for tuning back into the channel today right here with the Rust Belt Mechanic and tonight We're enjoying a live stream. We're gonna be doing some chitin and chatting all about the modern technician and some of the negatives that are happening into the industry and get some insight from you guys on What we can do to right some of the wrongs that are going on Also tonight, we're gonna be doing a giveaway from my last video on the last video We did this sweet little giveaway Where we teamed up with toolbox widget and their newest knuckle scrubber hand soap where all you had to do in that video was put in a comment and Sign up on their site for the next giveaway, which is three day in or anyways and one lucky commenter is gonna be winning a one-year supply Of knuckle scrubber hands out tonight, so we can do that one tonight Sorry, buddy. We're not gonna have anybody joining in this evening I'm just gonna be going through some information and getting some information from everybody here. Hopefully McBake is in the house. What's happening, buddy? Mr. Do little Justin a lamb and wrenching the bolts on YouTube What's up little man? So we're having a good old time tonight. Yes, I know it is a Monday, but Monday is you know They could be all right a good start to the week or they can kick you in the butt and really want to leave you Scrambling for more hours throughout the rest of the week But you know what today turned out to be an okay day At least here with mine. I ended up having to work on one of the new diesel Jeep Wranglers and it Was not fantastic I get a lot of comments on the video that I did about the diesel Jeep Wrangler and Lots of people asking my opinion a year down the road like hey, is it still your opinion? What do you still think about it? And I still think It's a piece of garbage. I think Jeep should have stuck with the 3.6 liter having that one engine platform inside the Wrangler and just stuck with that one and Maybe added a heavy but all of these extra little additions to 2 liter turbo 1.3 liter Turbo direct injected motor Putting in this 3 liter diesel These things suck today I just pulled out the transmission a one and it took me right around five hours just to pull a transmission on A four-wheel drive Yes, I know simple transfer case, but it's still Wrangler But rear-wheel drive base style vehicle that is absolutely ridiculous should not take me that long to do that one You get a couple more people kind of rolling in here big base sense. He wants to see Captain Ron Well, you got to ask where he is Captain Ron. I don't know. He's hanging around doing something somewhere. Who knows? Hey, what's up checkmate 115? They need to bring back the four liter from 1995 Well, actually the four liter was inside of the Wranglers all the way up until 2004 And I actually got to work on one there about a week and a half two weeks ago Replace the PCM on a really like rare one I guess from 2004 there's a high output four liter with a manual five speed I guess for that year that was not a plentiful option and needing a PCM Because I guess that was a really rare option one was a Pain in the butt and nobody had one They had it end up getting a crap one off of a shelf somewhere rebuilding it up costs the guy like $1,500 Yeah Not good for him. I don't know big big. You need a message of where in the world is Captain Ron We can make the game out of that one too Had head problems on the 2000 plus I can't say that I've ever really had that on any kind of daily driven jeeps now ones where guys have been You know rock brawl on them and bouncing them off the red limiters Yeah, I've seen some issues out of those No, you're really going to see that on a lot of those Daniel Martinez has just got a new 2016 Corolla XRS. There's an oil Coming up in the spark plugs. I think it's the Valkyrie gasket More than likely it's a four-cylinder especially you probably got the valve cover gasket o-rings inside of Your valve cover gasket there and they're probably just leaking well into those I don't know what the charge of $500 is is on that specific one Sounds like a pretty expensive fix for a four-cylinder valve cover gasket. I Don't know on that one specifically just because I don't know the hourly time on it But anyways, we will be doing the giveaway But we're gonna wait for a couple of minutes for a couple more people and everything to get in here Mark Galanty. What's up, man? But we wanted to go through a couple of industry questions And I have been getting a lot of here lately And I wanted to get some insight from you guys on what you absolutely thought of The automotive repair part of the industry going on right now So out of everybody here I'm assuming you're some kind of a technician or the people who are gonna be watching this video are some kind of a technician as we know over the last couple of years the automotive service world has had a massive decline in technicians and that could be set upon for a You know numerous amount of reasons whether it be The lack of pay the automotive industry Giants, you know the big three Having some crappy warranty times some crappy warranty practices not treating technicians Well the cost of tools and ownership of anything automotive technician related is just going through the roof So you can't even you know buy the tools to do the job So why would any of these newer texts want to get into that's another option? Some of the other ones are just saying well Family life style basis has pushed these newer younger generations into going to college for Nursing and going to college for engineering and you know Something that requires a four-year college degree to be able to get into is what a lot of the Modern generation is saying that oh if you're not doing that then you're not successful So that's another possible reason that we've had this you know massive shortage in technicians But regardless of what that is Which one of those reasons you want to choose? There's only going to be a few things that we're going to be able to do to write this wrong in the industry I want to hear some opinions from you guys tonight on what you think That dealerships and or independent shops can do to turn these things around because it's not going to be Us as technicians doing a whole lot of the changing that's going to make the big flood of changes It's going to be the shop owners. It's going to be the dealership service managers and Some of the automotive manufacturers are going to you know kind of be tossed into the mix there But you know we can go through each one of those and what you guys think Might be some of the rights to this wrong in it One of the first things that I kind of wanted to bring up into this was a couple of Articles from the interwebs that we kind of rolled out in and through and this one Well first one is from the Philadelphia Inquirer And pretty much saying how much there is a shortage of technicians the automotive repair undergoes transition as cars get more complex and older mechanics retire Yeah, that's right. If it's not broken it just Everything is a shortage not just automotive there is a huge thing But I have a feeling that it's more in the automotive because they're flooding away from that one for a couple of these reasons Now this article kind of goes into showing this this one lady here She went in to be a nursing student But she decided to be an automotive technician and they brought up a couple of really, you know cool things and Some eye-openers to be able for you know, you guys to see and the Department of Labor Show that nursing occupations where they were protected to go up 7% by 2029 up 3.1 million jobs Whereas mechanics careers. This is what the Department of Labor Statistics is Guessing will happen by 2029 now. We're gonna go into why they're guessing this but they are imagining that the Mechanics demand is going to go down by 4% Losing to 27,800 positions within the automotive industry Now obviously this next line right here is one of the big, you know nuts for the squirrel to take on that one It's $75,000 salary for a nursing career as to the mediocre $44,000 technician salary now I Don't know what you guys think but I Personally do not know any automotive technicians who are even remotely Even remotely Semi-successful that only make forty four thousand dollars a year. I Just don't know ones that are out there because the guys that are making that forty four thousand five hundred dollars a year Those are the guys who are lewd techs and I get that one in the first year or two I could see that as a median You know starting off for a level one technician, however Anybody who has any amount of years or you know experience within the automotive industry 44 grand that is that is not what we see as the medium Especially that being the average for automotive technicians. I just I want to know Where they're getting this from and I don't think I really believe it Most techs don't have college degrees without that they need to pay a huge amount back That is true. That is a good thing to not have debt from that one Also, a lot of the times for automotive technicians It if they are wanting you to get some kind of a certification or degree Then it's gonna be a two-year thing and it's usually either at a specialized training facility or a local community college Which is generally generally a you know cheaper tuition or something that's not gonna cost nearly as much down the road Easy does it says flat rate needs to get rid of flat rate Do you think we need to get rid of flat rate? I Semi-agree with that one. However, I don't think it's gonna be going anywhere Mostly because the industry as a whole how we do things and getting paid per job or the jobs that need done customer pay wise how the Consumer pays for their bill has to be calculated in flat rate. So the industry as a whole they're already having to calculate somebody's bill based off of the job that needs done and generally what kind of Time frame or what kind of labor it's going to take to do that job So they're already having to calculate up how much it's gonna cost and through a flat rate fee to be able to charge the customer So Therefore, it's just an easier way for the dealership or the independent shop to pay their technicians Based on that same amount because it is equal to the amount of money coming into the dealership When you start doing different pay scales and different ways that they pay the technicians they're They're taking in the money based off of a flat rate system but if they're paying the technician based off of just a flat pay or A salary or an hourly amount. It's hard for them to see, you know, the The worth in value of the technician's time Based off of the amount of money coming into the shop where the efficiencies were where where things might have been lacking in that amount, so it's kind of hard for that one Two years at UTI 22k, Rude Tuber got that one, but associates in Twisting a Wrench UTI is One of the fancy stick your finger up mechanic schools that I personally think Pray on the younger generation and what they believe the automotive industry to be They're looking for these students who are looking for that glamorous Automotive mechanic somebody who's being a NASCAR pit crew somebody who's working on Audi R8s or Lamborghini Mercedes-Benz It's not the generality Not what most technicians are gonna be working on but that's what they advertise towards and that's how they get a lot of their Newer texts to come into their programs. Yeah Fun fact my daughter is a response house a weeks ago, and she just freaked out singing on the phone She is cute as a button too I don't know how McBake was able to make a human being look that cute, but evidently it happened Things happen, you know UTI needs to go the way the no-no bird Like that one Those were pretty shops will pay to go to schools because they're a day or two at max Now that is something that definitely needs to be done and one of the most recent YouTube videos that I watched From Super Mario Diagnostics if you guys haven't seen that one he went to one of the most recent Technician training events and asked a whole lot of other technicians and youtubers what their opinion was on training in today's realm and whether it should be on the technician or whether it should be on the dealership or shop to be able to pay for and Honestly, the biggest, you know person who's making the biggest amount of money for this is obviously going to be the dealership or the shop and Getting more hours getting more quality hours and being able to bring in more and different kinds of jobs To be able to be completed based off of what that technician is Capable of doing if they're capable of doing more and better work You're able to bring in a different or a bigger clientele. So obviously they're making a crap load of money Yes, I do know the technician is probably gonna make more money, too At least I would hope so get more certs more abilities. So you should get paid more money That's just how things should go. So they are obviously making something of it, but you know, I Think that it should be in the hands of the owners of the dealerships the service managers to pay for that one So another article that I wanted to kind of bring up here is From fixed ops journal It was published August 8th Bring this one up here the crush of repair work intensifies and service technician Shortage now this was right about the time that I did the video based off of you know why it takes so long to get a vehicle into a repair shop and This is exactly why seeing why The industry is booming But the amount of technicians are not flocking to the industry based off of what this article right here is saying I For the amount of numbers and guys who are looking at the just General thought here Why are technicians not flocking towards doing something and getting in on all of this extra repair work? Like we've been talking earlier. It's gonna be a lack of money coming in towards the technician Mostly that's what it comes down to You're not getting as great of benefits the technicians are you know Demonized throughout the major part of society and just thought to be the dumb monkeys and the grease heads of the world So why would we want to do that one? We can look into this article and they're talking about these other dealerships and shops around big cities, especially that are down 30 40% of their total capacity of technicians where they want to be at One of the nifty one little tidbits here Says that they're actually looking for Technicians not just locally anymore because obviously to be able to get quality technicians You're either having to grow them from scratch That means getting them, you know young putting them through school and then putting them into your dealership and taking Four five six years or so to be able to fully train them to master status It's a cheaper way, but it's obviously gonna take a lot longer now if you want a master certified technician ran away, it's gonna cost you and that comes in the way of Stealing one from another dealership which is in a really beneficial Place for the technicians to be right now because everybody's fighting and clamoring over them and right now to be a technician is It's the best time to because you are holding all the cards as a technician Especially one who is certified who has any amount of experience more than a year or two You can pretty much write your own ticket and write your own pocketbook of where you want to go What kind of work you want to do what? Manufacturer you want to work for what kind of cards you want to work on because Literally every shop that I've ever talked to in the last six months. I Asked them. Are you hiring? Are you looking to hire within the next couple of months? Why are you hiring and it's always yes? I've never had one single shop or technicians, you know independent shop or dealership Service advisor that I've talked to ever say no I I think we're good on the amount of technicians that we have. I'm probably not looking to hire That's not happening right now They have such a massive influx of work coming into shops and such a lack of technicians But they're needing to find them and this one Instance here on this article said that they're even looking international for technicians They have prospects in Dubai and Switzerland that they're trying to get into Because it's so hard for them to find quality technicians and they would rather pay the premium of getting a Certified train technician from somewhere then to be able to do that one So right here, we can see that they're pulling prospects from Dubai in Switzerland and They're hiring lawyers that says it could take up to ten months and roughly cost the dealership $10,000 to be able to get one of these texts, but honestly Right there That just shows you how much of the technician is worth And I did a whole video on that one as well How much it costs to make a master technician and what a master certified technician can make your shop or dealership there's We'll put it this way over the technician's lifespan. It's millions. The technician is going to make Absolutely easily millions for the dealership and especially working, you know flat rate and working You're pretty much working your butt off right there And we can see they're trying to pull them from other countries Another thing that a couple of other places where we're looking at you can see that in this one service area that we looked into 60% of franchise dealers are trying to hire more technicians this year and 72% of them say finding or hiring the right employee is a challenge that means they can't hire the people that they want to and Right now that is absolutely the truth. It absolutely sucks This one dealership they have three thirteen dealerships throughout this Throughout this area they collectively employed 236 technicians, however to fully You know to put the facility to full staff It's going to take a hundred and nineteen more technicians. That's just in one service area one single dealership chain That's crazy Diesel tax on the a CDL get a CDL now January 20 22 nationwide Anybody wanting to get a CDL will have to take truck driving school Paying full amount. So yeah, that would be a big cost in there Hey, and there's Dick Skinner coming into the live stream. What's up, buddy? Clint Sark says I'm a certified Ford and Dodge the money Just there. I have a CDL and heavy-duty diesel in here for the state flat rate is Where it's going to get the new people. Yep The newer technicians coming into the industry are very very scared of flat rate. I try to incentivize and teach the newer techs who are coming into the industry that Flat rate's not really all that bad. Yeah, you can have some ups and you can have some downs And you're gonna have a couple of down weeks here and there however, there's going to be a whole lot more up weeks to What you're looking at especially in this day and age and if for some reason Whatever dealership you're working at or whatever shop you're working that if you can't Get a hold of a place that does a good amount of hours and keep all the technicians that they have Well-fed and ours Jumpship because there's other shops out there who are doing way better and able to bring in a Crapload more hours and are starving for techs So right now it's definitely the time that toolboxes have wheels for a reason and If you feel like you're getting shorted on time shorted on hours Whether it be because the shop is just doing a poor job and advertising. They've got Bad reputation for whatever service department or they're just showing favoritism to Small amount of technicians Then jump ship It's you know a hard thing to do Especially for people new into the industry, but I'm telling you there's more and there's bigger fish out in the waters Call a side kickback says I'm a 17 year old and I've been working in fleet brush for weeks now So if I love it and love the kind of work I'm getting in any tips for the experience guys right now if you're 17 and Working in a fleet shop already you do an awesome and my biggest recommendation would be to make sure that you're learning From the technicians who are most experienced and who are the ones who want to be able to teach you and Help you learn through the ropes of the entire industry Not just a couple little tricks and pointers here and there but actually showing you hey This is how you are really making money in the flat rate or however You might be paid or anything But having a mentor in the industry or in the shop that you're working at is a big deal for a younger tech So I definitely would look into that one Every day flea tech in here the salt master himself. What's happening, buddy? Okay, some of us are a night shift. You just had to go live on a weekday. I sure did and I announced it a whole day ago, buddy Back to work take care. All right, man. It was good seeing you here I appreciate you stopping in at least showing your face in the light stream Four ten auto tech here also who also has a fantastic YouTube channel so does every day flea tech So does Dick Skinner. So make sure you go check them out Excuse me Our shop rate out the door for dyag and shop supplies is a hundred and ninety five dollars an hour Now you live in a pretty big market also So that that kind of is a going rate especially when there's that many shops available And you're from what I remember you were in a bigger shop. Anyways with a lot of technicians So trying to get and clamor that amount of work into the area It's something that is A big deal for where you're at ZCC car care auto LLC. What's happening man? Thanks for stopping in Okay, back. Don't be afraid to do any job even clean up That is a very very good piece of information Always always be busy. Don't ever be just sitting Around, you know, it's not a great thing to do You don't want to show that you're you know, not interested whether it be even something minute Always seem interested and always wanting be wanting to learn or do something Anyways over on this article, uh, there was a couple of other neat little bits of information Uh 12 store colorado dealership groups said they're wanting to hire 54 technicians And this is the thing that goes on and on this other one from Hansel auto group Trying to add 33 techs through the roster of 148 I mean, they're wanting to add 10 15 20 percent to their technician line That's just everywhere you look And here is one of the big things that some of these dealerships are running into issue-wise and what they're trying to do to kind of get around it is Whether you might have a crappy driving record That's a big thing for dealerships because obviously Master technicians. It doesn't matter how good of a technician you are If you're not allowed to drive customers vehicles You're useless to the shop If you can't drive cars, you're useless because you can't diagnose things properly You can't check whether you're fixed actually fix them And you need to pay somebody else to do that driving for you You're useless So driving record is a big thing for technicians. So for the young guys out there who are listening Make sure you take that into account and doing stupid stuff when you're young and getting points on your license Or getting your license revoked for doing dumb things. It's a major issue Make sure you keep your mind on that one Those things like giving your license revoked or DUIs are a major slash to anybody who's trying to be a technician Don't fall down that hole. All right Having my current shop for an independent can't wait You know Call sign kickback says it's hourly. I'll do any job. Trust me. They trust me to do that is a very good thing There's two texts that really try to help and teach me on big jobs. I've done high pressure oil pump stand Pipes and turbos. That's awesome. Especially for somebody who's 17 years old Dude, you're kicking ass and taking names. That's it's good for you Keep doing what you're doing. Always want to be learning You're doing the right thing. I'm just letting you know right there. You're doing a good job Having a driver's license period. Yes, that is very important Portenses I've been at my shop and it's november for 10 years one of the guys that's been there for 10 years Just left last week for another dealer five minutes from his house Drive time is very important for some people. It's very important to me. I don't think that I would leave the dealership that I'm at right now ever One they treat me very well and know exactly what my worth is and what my master's certification status Is bringing into the dealership because I left there for a while and they felt the pain of What it was like to not have the technician to be able to do those jobs So obviously they know what somebody's worth and the fact that I only live a couple of minutes from the dealership that I work at It's pretty awesome. It really is Steve it says it's not probe fix it. I don't know why you can't push link Uh, I'm not sure about posting links on here. I don't think it's letting things for that amount I don't know if that's a string yard thing or if that's a new youtube thing or not Super mickey ask is ase is that important? Guessing you're meaning are ase is that important to become a technician now I'm gonna say two different answers on that one In this current day and age. Yes, it is Now did I think that same thing especially when I was doing videos two three or four years ago? No, I really didn't that was also because there was a Larger amount of technicians in ase kind of had got the You know viewpoint that they really weren't that much of a professional thing Uh, they kind of lost some of their credibility not to any Certain particular circumstance or whatnot, but it was just a mindset With what the technicians had And then they changed up a lot of the ways that they do testing they changed up The style of questions that they ask and they started doing more of a comprehensive questionnaire asking before They had these questions that were If you were a general loader's tech you could pass the ase test a lot easier than if you were a chrysler or a honda tech Just because they centered Probably the plus percent of the technician or the technical based questions off of general motor space vehicles. So mass airflow vehicles Unfortunately where chrysler technicians are used to doing everything off of map Fuel and everything and not mass airflow. So there's a lot of questions on mass air and if you didn't understand that one It was a lot harder to do but right now The ase has Really done a good job in getting a better amount of questions in a different style of questioning That has kind of come up with the technician And the new technical aspects on cars For instance, I just did my research on ase break Uh this last year and I remember there was quite a few questions in there about electrical and regenerative braking whether the you know the pedal should do this or In regeneration you're going to have this feel but this is another issue It was it was a really great thing to be able to see them coming up with the new technology and questioning those things To keep technicians on their toes and up to date for what is newest in the industry So it's really great seeing them To do that Uh super mickey says my current shop is more focused on ases than being brand certified versus independent Is willing to pay even more because i'm actually certified for two of the five brands they service Hey, what's up renegade good to see you kind of cruising in here so With that said also right now For chrysler at least an fca group They are requiring ase tests and ase certifications to be master certified They have three different master certification levels Or different kinds of them you can become electrical ase master chassis ase or chassis master and you can also be powertrain master specialists And all of those require ase passing to be able to get those master certifications I know the electrical one requires you to get electrical Um, I believe it's also air conditioning hVAC to be able to get that one as well Uh chassis one is obviously requiring you to have brakes suspension at you know, obviously for the chassis and Drive train is obviously requiring you to get your powertrain certification in engine Uh engine performance and repair as well as I believe one of the transmissions So just keep that one in mind that even if manufacturers are doing that right now Obviously, it's an important thing in the industry and its importance is definitely going up Ah Nick bait coming in with the gig and use. All right. Thanks, man All right, anyways Since we are over half an hour into this live stream I think we need to do a giveaway portion of this. How does that sound? So for you guys who did not know the last video that I did here on the youtube channel I did a nifty tools video and everybody loves nifty tools. So fear We teamed up with the guys over at toolbox widget And we also boy that glared pad toolbox widget and also Are doing a giveaway on their newest latest greatest knuckle scrubber hand soap It's a fantastic hand soap to have and we're going to do a giveaway here Um Giving this to one lucky technician or one lucky person who commented in that video for a year's supply of the hand soap It's great stuff. I've been using it for about three and a half months now And I honestly I I can't say enough about it. It's it's great stuff It works so We got to give some cool stuff to you guys Uh real quick for 10 auto tech did bring up his prisor training implementing picoscope training yet GM classes a small section on every hands-on training session Apparently any actual training so Yes for 10 Chrysler is implementing pico Into a special tool that is required and has been required for about eight or nine months right now Every dealership got one whether they wanted two or not and The integration of the pico scope into the diagnostics in Chrysler Is fantastic and the ease of use that they made the pico scope It's pretty much dummy proof for anybody who's trying to get into using a scope It's the best software that they ever could have done and they took a lot of really good time with it For instance, if I open up the tablet and it shows Exactly what to do to hook up the pico scope into what you're testing And then it will ask you 20 different questions on exactly what you're trying to do or scope out On the vehicle that you're working on. What kind of sensor are you working on? Are you working on this kind of cam sensor? Is it a Tone wheel or is it a magnetic pickup? And then it's asking do you want to see a known good one Along with the data that you're going to be pulling. Yes, I would thank you very much click And you can see a known good one on that specific vehicle brought up for that kind of a sensor It's awesome to see it really is And so far Chrysler has done a pretty decent job in Making it as easy to use So it really doesn't take a whole lot of training to use it It shows you pretty much exactly how to use it where to use it and what kind of readings you need So pretty dummy proof They've also done a really good job in implementing online training and update courses that are available for technicians Now they're going to also be doing in person and live update classes to get more diagnostics and diving deep into that one And Those have not been fully implemented quite yet But are kind of working into the thing So those are coming down the line, but again with the lack of Service and training centers being open. That's another issue right now that Chrysler is going through is they can't hire enough Trainers to fully staff the service centers to fully train the technicians So that's that's something that Chrysler needs to figure out And I think that's along the line of technicians But they need to get that one figured out if they want their text to be fully certified anyways, let's get back into the drawing for The one year supply of knuckle scrubber hands out now all you had to do was To watch that video You had to put a comment a certain comment into the comments on that video and click on a link and go over and put your email address into the The next giveaway Entry for toolbox widget because they do some great giveaways and they do them all the time This last month. I believe they did a texas diagnostics giveaway Which is like four or five thousand dollars worth of texas diagnostics equipment Plus a bunch of toolbox widget stuff. It's pretty sweet. They just gave that away This is awesome so We were teamed That did God, I can't talk tonight It's not even that late. It's only like 7 30 It's like dark as hell out too. I thought it was like something like when I come in here But anyways, we're giving a year supply of knuckle scrubber hands up away To the people who did that one and we're gonna We're gonna do a random comment generator live right here for everyone to see and I will reply to that comment After I get off the live stream here So I've got the random comment generator brought up here on the screen. This is the YouTube link that I'm pulling it from you only got one entry. So, you know filtering out the duplicates so Get a little drum roll here On drawing a winner and the winner is going to be psychotic garage Psychotic garage commented on here the soldering iron would have been great last week for repairing rodent damage equipment Have the power pro and you're right. The solder just slides right off. How about that one? Review actually went how the tools supposed to be Awesome. All right. Well, I will do a reply to that one psychotic garage You have just won a one year supply Of knuckle scrubber hands up. So congratulations. I'm glad to see somebody You know, be able to use this one fantastically It's not broken also commented Kyle What the oems are doing in the outdoor power equipment is they're coming to you They're asking what you want hands-on training on That's a pretty awesome idea right there the But that would also require the oems to have enough People to do the training because right now if the oems were asking the dealerships and technicians What do you want training on? I want this and I want this I want this I want this Okay, where's it at? Uh, we're gonna offer those in like six eight twelve In a couple of months And they can't give you an answer there are certain training courses that even fca Has put through the ringer and they can't get enough people to do the training. So these technicians are waiting one even two years for applied courses Things that they obviously have the correct training for to be able to get into it Which they had to get everything to lead up to it All the prerequisites and then they apply for the course and they're sitting on the wait list For those courses for up two years That's some crap Especially in a lot of dealerships that are basing people's pay and raises off of what level certifications these technicians have If you were one of those technicians who's waiting on a level three certification status To be able to get a two three five dollar an hour raise Just based off of one class that hasn't been offered in a year I'd be pretty pissed too. So I think the oems Especially chrysler from what I see need to get on the ball Need to get people hired take people out of their horrendous horrendous star center that Maybe maybe helps technicians 15 percent of the time at most And put some of those people into textbook learning courses Enough to have somebody read off of a teleprompter or something on a screen to teach these technicians Anything that they need to I'm sure they'd be able to do it if you trust these guys to be able to run and do remote diagnostics You get star center and get it right 10 percent of the time Why can you not put more people into these testing centers? I don't know just my thought process right there It's horrible. Sean B says took me five years to get into a hybrid strands Hands-on class in Detroit Isn't that just sad? I I totally get that one see you later 410 didn't see you kind of skirting out of here on that one But I appreciate you stopping it. Yeah, what do you guys see in your training? Are you do you work for price or do you see the same thing across the country? Do you work for these other manufacturers? Are you seeing the same? Letdown when it comes to getting trained Like I said when I talked about Super mario diagnostics youtube video a little bit ago I talked about him asking them whether The shop owners should pay for training or not But one of the other questions that he asks a whole lot of his people or Asked a bunch of other youtubers was what is the most important thing or the most important piece of advice you could give technicians? Getting into the industry on what they could do to better themselves or better the industry as a whole and it It was always training You need to go get more training. You need to be more specialized I the more knowledge you have the better it is for you to be able to get in anywhere you want to So you need that training So if he's seeing that all the way across the board, it's got to be important It really is and they're wanting this training And it's the most important thing for technicians and the industry as a whole To be able to get better technicians to get rid of that stigma That technicians are dumb and they just sit there and do monkey oil changes and get covered in grease And that's all they're good for No, that is not the way of the newer vehicles That is not the way things are going and that's another one of the things that they said Here within one of these articles see if I can get down and find it virtually every dealer they know is hiring people and You can see they blame the shortage on parents pushing their children's towards college based careers So in that area, I I don't really blame them right there Now Trying to find it. I can't really find what I was looking for But anyway, the department of labor statistics When they said that they Were going to be looking at a technician shortage was based off of a lot of the current administration And saying that they wanted to move over 50 percent of the automotive industry into the electrical and hybrid portion by the end of the decade One that's never going to happen that fast Sorry, biden. It's just not going to you you can't make things change and make an industry And that your will And that's the speed that you want it to without pissing a lot of people off. It's not going to happen Whatever, but anyways Moving on to that one. They're basing their department of labor statistics studies based off of the administration's goals and saying, okay, well We want to see more electrical and more You know hybrid cars coming out So therefore things that are electric and at hybrid They should need worked on less So therefore We really don't need that many technicians and we could afford a five seven even 10 drop in technicians They'd be okay in the industry And it goes on to say however, that's not what they're seeing on the ground That's exactly what we're saying Oh, here it is The u.s. Department of the labor department believes that increased Computerization in cars will require fewer technicians diagnosis will be simpler There you go add more electrical things so that diagnostics are going to get easy That's that's what they said. It's they said right there. It's Okay So therefore diagnostics should be simpler leading to easier repairs So we will need fewer people So make more electric things make it more automated So therefore it'll never break You know and you won't need technicians to fix them We'll just have the little guys on their computers There it's fixed good to go. It's frustrating So fewer people will be needed That's the long view but That big but right there, but That is not what is happening on the ground so these newer cars that are coming out are coming out with more and more electronics that i've seen this myself in the field and every single one of these new vehicles that come out with the latest greatest technology Requires more more certification for the technician. So they're becoming engineers pretty much and So These newer vehicles, obviously they're going to have a lot more technology So they should be able to diagnose themselves. That's not happening these newer technology vehicles that come out with Especially in the ados world right now ados recalibrations are huge absolutely massive these cars coming out with night vision systems The forward collision monitoring is off the charts right now and to be able to even reconfigure or realign them After collisions or accidents because these collision centers aren't able to afford the 20 to 50 thousand dollars worth of equipment for ados recalibration Okay, so we're doing ados recalibration mark my words on this one That uh, this is going to be a huge field to get into the guys who do mobile diagnostics Invest in mobile ados recalibration. You'll think of me later Just say it right there Office people have no clue about how electronics work. There we go Dick's gonna ask what do you think there is to do when you can't find df parts You can't find the parts to fix df equipment They might just fall off the vehicles The epa didn't hear that It's okay If it's not broken ass we need to ask them to explain ohm's law and look on their face would be worth it Yes They do not understand anything about electronics not at all Yeah, anyways, I have ranted all I wanted to tonight. I wanted to keep this thing under an hour and I did big things Over to psychotic garage That guy right there or gal or whoever it is psychotic garage He or she won the one year supply of knuckles scrubber hand soap So thank you to toolbox widget and knuckles scrubber hand soap for partnering with me for that giveaway Hopefully we'll be doing a couple of really great giveaways again Here very soon on the channel. It's gonna be a good time I know the videos haven't been coming out nearly as often But I enjoy doing these live streams and hanging out with you guys all the same So I might start doing these a little bit more often because I can just do them on a whim and I can get more some more stuff done around here It's fall time around on the big rest belt ranch and there's a lot of stuff to do On top of that guess what I got my motorcycle license this week I know I know and usually everybody's already got it But I went and got mine and taken a safety course this week So that's why over this last, you know, a couple of days and this week There's probably not going to be a video out because I've got Courses and training on motorcycle safety for the next like four or five days. So Unfortunately, that's what's going to be happening. But anyways, thank you for what you guys have done to the channel We are up over 62,000 Subscribers now still rocking and rolling away getting up there. So anyways Look at this. Look at look at this guy Shaka gillis Coming in at the buzzer last minute just to remind us That roby tools are absolute trash Thank you for that shaka I couldn't have done a live stream Without you showing your face and showing up for that awesome $2 bonus in there Thanks, buddy Doing a bait class and your insurance will thank you. Uh, yes, that's pretty much what I'm doing I'm doing the training course. I got my Permit this last week on Wednesday. I passed the course. I only missed like four or five questions. So I'm too bad. Not too bad and I did buy a new motorcycle as well. Well new to me not really new I don't think I could ever buy a new motorcycle. So if you guys didn't know I do have an insurium account Also, I'll post some pictures up on that one here over the next day or so just to see Uh, you know some reactions to wow, look at the horrendous paint job on that thing What if you didn't buy a Harley? Yeah, I'm sorry. Whatever. I'm just getting into writing It's gonna be a good time Anyways, we're done here tonight. Thanks for tuning in today guys and as always You guys stay awesome