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Letter to the Editor
Thursday August 5
AASP/NJ Trains Close to 500 Repairers This Year
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of New Jersey (AASP/NJ), the state’s largest association of collision and mechanical repairers, has trained and certified close to 500 automotive repair technicians over the past six months.The association — through it’s six local chapters — held over 20 meetings/clinics since January, educating and training its members to comply with the state’s laws and regulations.
“The major goal of our association is to get our members educated,” said AASP/NJ President Bob Everett of Bayville Auto Care in Bayville. “Scheduling these seminars and meetings is the best way to get that done and our chapters have done an outstanding job getting members and non-members to attend.”
For the association’s collision repair members, the training and certification was a matter of urgency.
“According to the state auto body licensing law, collision shops have to be certified by this September in order to renew their licenses,” Everett stated. “So we felt that AASP/NJ had to take an active role in getting this information out to our members, and the response was excellent.”
AASP/NJ’s Membership Director, Ernie Miller, was the driving force behind getting the meetings scheduled.
“Not only are our training clinics a valuable asset to our membership, but they are also spreading the AASP/NJ name throughout the state,” Miller said. “All meetings for collision chapters are certification clinics and the training opportunities will continue to expand. We have some already scheduled for the fall and more will be available as the year progresses.”
“Right now we are constantly growing as an association,” Everett added. “We have three mechanical chapters and three collision chapters located from Cape May County to Warren and Bergen Counties. The only way we can continue to grow is to educate the repairers in the state, and so far this year has been a huge success. And we are continuing to do that with a full slate of seminars scheduled for this fall.”
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