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Supply agreement benefits apprentices and workshops
7th July 2008
Diagnostic equipment supplied to the City of Bristol College will enhance apprentice training and help increase workshop efficiency for Ryder Europe from the end of July.
Ryder introduced Eclipse Testpads into all 25 of its workshop locations last year. The Eclipse Testpad is a universal diagnostic system for commercial vehicles and trailers that determines on-board faults and enables mechanics to clear them quickly. Staffordshire-based Eclipse Automotive Technology has now agreed to supply a system to the college as part of its aftersales service to Ryder.
“Because all of our apprentices train at the college, it made sense to write the company’s all-makes diagnostic system of choice into the Transport Technology department’s training programme,” says Steve Edge, Ryder’s Maintenance Development Manager.
Maurice Edwards, the college’s Heavy Vehicle Contracts Manager, says that workshop managers increasingly rely on diagnostic kit to keep vehicles on the move. “The days of tilting the cab, having a look to see what’s wrong and then trying to fix it are long gone. The electronics and components on these vehicles are far too sophisticated for that.”
Eclipse Automotive’s director Richard Parkin hopes the move will enable more trainees from a wide range of employers to use the equipment to identify faults across a greater range of commercial vehicle marques.
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