Detroit Diesel announced it completed its seventh BlueTec technician training program, a series of hands-on courses for end users, dealers and distributors to support the company’s BlueTec Emissions Technology.
Detroit Diesel said its training department began planning the BlueTec courses in July 2008 to support its one-box BlueTec system introduced to meet the stricter 2010 EPA emissions requirements.
“Our course developers were able to leverage Daimler’s [Detroit Diesel’s parent company] BlueTec experience when designing the course. Their experience gave us a unique advantage and helped us build a great training curriculum,” said Kevin Holland, senior manager of Service Training for Daimler Trucks North America. Since launching BlueTec in 2005, Daimler has over 200,000 BlueTec equipped trucks operating in Europe.
“Our goal with introducing this course is to provide our network with a wealth of information on Detroit Diesel’s BlueTec well in advance of its implementation to be sure our customer’s benefit from the best performing network,” said Holland.
The training includes an introduction to BlueTec; tools specific to 2010; system diagnostics; SCR system components; and more. To further supplement the in-class training, Detroit Diesel will launch a Web-based BlueTec course in late 2009.
