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Question about how fast young guys pick up diagnostic software on real trucks
Had a kid start in the shop three months ago, fresh out of the diesel program at the tech school in Lubbock, and he can pull codes and read live data faster than me already. Thing is, when a truck comes in with a misfire and no code, he just stares at the laptop waiting for it to tell him something. I spent about 45 minutes Wednesday with him on a 2016 Pete showing him how to watch fuel pressure and rail pressure at the same time while I cracked an injector line, and his eyes kind of lit up when he heard the note change. Feels like these programs teach the screens real good but skip the part where your ears and hands do half the work. I'm not knocking the kid, he's sharp and he wants to learn, but it got me thinking about how I came up. I had a old timer who made me listen to a running engine for a week before he let me touch a scanner. So how do you all bring the new hires along, do you push the computer stuff first or make them learn the truck by ear and feel like we did?
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