...three years of auto shop classes, but they still needed to pore over the Ford manuals and learn how to use computer diagnostic equipment. ``The class pretty much gives you a basic knowledge of how engines work,'' Walker said. ``In order...

...three years of auto shop classes, but they still needed to pore over the Ford manuals and learn how to use computer diagnostic equipment. ``The class pretty much gives you a basic knowledge of how engines work,'' Walker said. ``In order...

...even find, much less keep, a seat in the training programs turning out technicians prepared to master the computer diagnostic equipment, troubleshooting manuals, materials estimates, inventory procedures, spread sheet calculations or marketing...