This story appears in the Sept. 21 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. A good portion of diesel mechanics today are baby boomers, and with the boomers reaching retirement ...

As the transportation industry continues to grow and baby boomers continue to retire, the need for trained diesel mechanics and truck drivers has never been greater. Job openings span the United ...

This Opinion piece appears in the Dec. 19 & 26 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Qualified diesel technicians are getting harder to find, a situation the transportation ...

John Carey looked out over the shop floor of his diesel engine repair business at the number of large engines in various stages of disrepair and proclaimed that he could sure use a few more ...

Trucking has thousands of steady well-paying technician positions available. So why can’t the industry find anyone to hire? A technician wage survey conducted in the second half of 2018 by ...

you're looking for your diesel dream job where you get to do what you naturally enjoy, while earning a good income. There are many different ways to enter the diesel industry, and there are just as ...

Missy "DieselGirl" Albin is using her experience and online platform to help break stereotypes of what a diesel technician looks like. While careers in STEM fields have made a great deal of progress ...

Among diesel technicians, a few engines have earned a reputation for turning routine jobs into all-day battles, with cramped packaging, fragile components and baffling design choices that punish ...

Wade “Buzz” Payne waited patiently for several weeks before Chris Wilson, owner of Lampco Industrial, a diesel-repair shop in New Springfield, Ohio, had time to work his ’99 Ford F-350 into the mix of ...