Diesel Mechanic Shortage
The growing shortage of technicians serving the trucking industry is not a problem that's going from bad to worse it's a problem that's going from bad to right off the cliff. First the raw numbers: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. currently employs 818,211 automotive service technicians and mechanics and 249,230 bus, truck and diesel engine specialists.
Quote: Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Assn., says there are currently about 32,000 technician job openings each year. Projections call for an additional 6,000 positions a year over the next five years, bringing demand to 38,000 annually.
BLS projects that by 2012 annual demand for technicians will rise to 101,184, representing growth of 12.4%.
The numbers alone are daunting. But even more worrisome are the demographic trends that underlie the surge in demand: the retirement of baby boomers, coupled with dwindling interest in the vehicle technician as a career path by the much smaller replacement generation, or Gen-Xers.
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