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Re: Refurbished oil
Ray O wrote:[color=blue]
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> I have worked closely with aout 50 or so and have advised them on the pros
> and cons of using traditional, group, or teams dispatch and production; how
> to analyze and improve work mix, how to analyze and monitor technician and
> shop productivity; and of course, the benefits of sending all technicians to
> factory training classes and maintaining the proper technican skills mix to
> control their cost of sales.
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> A smaller dealership service with less than 10 technicians generally cannot
> justify someone dedicated to just oil changes, and so regular line
> technicians generally perform all of the work, including oil changes.
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> Medium and large dealership service departments are more likely to use
> advanced production techniques and/or employ union technicians and so hiring
> someone dedicated just to oil changes is pretty much precluded.[/color]
One of the automotive technical schools that runs lots of infomercials
here, Universal Technical Institute ([url]www.uticorp.com)[/url], says that their
students start working at local dealerships long before graduating.
Is this a common practice, and if it is, what sort of work do they do
at the dealerships?
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