{"id":405,"date":"2016-02-19T20:29:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/?p=405"},"modified":"2016-12-29T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:18:09","slug":"training-tomorrows-techs-vfi-partners-with-centralia-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/training-tomorrows-techs-vfi-partners-with-centralia-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Tomorrow&#039;s Techs &#8211; VFI Partners with Centralia College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"email\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"FreightlinerNW\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Training%20Tomorrow%26%23039%3Bs%20Techs%20-%20VFI%20Partners%20with%20Centralia%20College\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Ridgefield, WA<\/p>\n<p>Trained Diesel Technicians are a valuable resource, as VFI well knows. It is a high demand field that requires ever-increasing skills and technical know-how. <!--more-->We are proud to be partnering with Centralia College to help students join this fast-paced and growing field. <strong>Clint O\u2019Neill<\/strong>, Pacific Truck Center\u2019s training manager based in Ridgefield, decided to get more involved with the college. He is sponsoring their Diesel Technician Training program within Freightliner\u2019s ARC program, as well as Freightliner\u2019s Get Ahead program. Get Ahead offers industry training (online and free of charge) to diesel training schools, in collaboration with Daimler Trucks North America and network service locations, such as VFI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea here is to help them attract more students from a wider demographic. They have roughly 50 students currently enrolled. The plan is to have their top four year students go through the Get Ahead program,\u201d said Clint O\u2019Neill. Those four students would receive free ILT training from Clint at VFI\u2019s Corporate Training Center on the Ridgefield campus. \u201cThis would allow me time to assess their skills as well as provide them the certificates needed for future employment with Daimler products.\u201d Clint anticipates the first students to join the project during the 2016 fall term.<\/p>\n<p>Clint has his eye on developing such training programs with other schools. \u201cWith the growing needs for a \u2018Grow your own\u2019 tech approach due to our fast growing company, I felt it was time to start thinking outside the box,&#8221; said Clint. \u201cMy hope is we can start this process at our local Diesel programs to increase our retention of a higher level trained apprentice by recruiting locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Centralia College training course, visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralia.edu\/academics\/dieseltech\/index.html\">website<\/a>. If your diesel school might be interested in partnering with VFI under the Get Ahead program, please contact Clint O\u2019Neill at 360.887.7540.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridgefield, WA Trained Diesel Technicians are a valuable resource, as VFI well knows. 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