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Tri State Truck Center Unveils Sponsored Classroom at Universal Technical Institute

 

Tri State Truck Center partners with educators to prepare the region’s workforce for opportunities in the trucking and diesel industries, where job openings will soon outpace the number of trained technicians.  

 

 

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (February 2015) – Tri State Truck Center, Inc., a heavy truck dealership, is pioneering how companies in the trucking industry react to the shortage of skilled diesel technicians. The company is sponsoring a classroom in the Norwood, Massachusetts campus of Universal Technical Institute (NYSE:UTI), the leading provider of post-secondary education for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians.

 

Tri State Truck Center will unveil the sponsored classroom during a grand opening at 10:30 a.m. on March 13, 2015, at Universal Technical Institute, 1 Upland Road in Norwood.

 

In the trucking and diesel industries, skilled technicians are retiring at a significantly faster rate than new technicians are being trained, to the point of nearly crisis proportions. Tri State Truck Center strongly believes that to get past this crisis, the company must invest in future technicians by supporting educators like UTI who give students the training and skills needed to take full advantage of the opportunities within the industry.

 

“We are starting at UTI. We want to get in front of students, and let them know how important the career path they have chosen really is. We plan on moving into high schools and vocational schools to encourage students to think of other avenues and opportunities when considering their future, and their career paths,” says Kevin Holmes, President and CEO of Tri State Truck Center. “Our management team sees this skills shortage every day. We have diesel technician positions to fill, and nobody to fill them. Our customers simply cannot afford to have their trucks down, and off the road for lack of technicians for equipment maintenance and repair.”

 

Chuck Barresi, Campus President of UTI-Norwood, says many local employers like Tri State Center are working closely with UTI to help them build their pipeline and fill open positions for qualified, entry-level technicians.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the best job opportunities for diesel service technicians are for those who have completed formal post-secondary education, and have strong technical skills. “The high demand for technicians has created greater employment opportunities for our graduates,” says Barresi. 

 

“Students and families should know that the opportunities available in diesel and trucking are incredibly important to our nation, and provide exceptional career paths and growth opportunities. These are jobs to be proud of,” Holmes says.

 

For more information on Tri State Truck Center, and their efforts to combat the hiring crisis facing the trucking industry contact Brittany Holmes 774-279-2427 or Jil Wonoski 781-820-0050

 

About Tri State Truck Center, Inc.:

Tri State Truck Center, Inc. located in Shrewsbury, Mass, is an all-encompassing heavy-duty truck dealership specializing in Freightliner and Western Star brands. Tri State, celebrating 30 years of successful business, offers individual truck and fleets sales, on and off site truck services, an on-site parts department with the largest parts delivery fleet in New England, and 24 hour Emergency Service.  The team is staffed with professionals that are trained and certified by the manufactures they represent.  Tri State, the first Elite Support Certified dealer in North America, has a 60,000 sq. ft. state of the art facility, with over 100 employees that stand behind its philosophy, “We Know Trucks.”

For more information visit www.tristatetruckcenter.com or follow us on Twitter @WeKnowTrucks

 

About Universal Technical Institute, Inc.:
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI) is the leading provider of post-secondary education for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians. With more than 190,000 graduates in its 50-year history, UTI offers undergraduate degree and diploma programs at 11 campuses across the United States, as well as manufacturer-specific training programs at dedicated training centers. Through its campus-based school system, UTI provides specialized post-secondary education programs under the banner of several well-known brands, including Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Motorcycle Mechanics Institute and Marine Mechanics Institute (MMI) and NASCAR Technical Institute (NASCAR Tech).

For more information visit www.uti.edu. Like UTI on www.facebook.com/UTI or follow UTI on Twitter @UTITweet, @MMITweet, and @NASCARTechUTI.

 

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