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Got to disagree with the recruiting auto techs and slowly training them up working on IC flt's maybe but electric machines and warehousing no we've tried this over here at a few dealers I've worked for and it nearly always ends up badly. The answer is to take on apprentices and train them up from scratch most of the big boys over here have been doing this for quite a few years now but most of the experienced techs in the uk seem to be around 50+ so the industry is going to be in a very bad way very soon
  • Posted 9 Feb 2014 06:43
  • By lifter01
  • joined 4 Jul'09 - 463 messages
  • West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Fact of the week
The two internal cavities in our nose called nostrils function as separate organs. Each nostril has its own set of turbinates and olfactory receptors. The two independent organs work together through a mechanism called the nasal cycle, where one nostril is dominant for air intake while the other rests and is better at detecting scents.