Bee Line hosts ACOFAS tech training clinic

ACOFASThe American Council of Frame and Alignment Specialists (ACOFAS) held its 22nd Technician Training Clinic last week at Bee Line Company’s facility in Bettendorf, Iowa.

The clinic’s training was conducted by Howard Williams, training and field applications manager, and Paul Lund, Bee Line training expert. In order to afford all technicians the opportunity to experience excellent training instruction and more importantly, on-hands participation working with the equipment, the number of technicians allowed to attend was limited. ACOFAS says the Bee Line facilities provided the perfect venue to allow Williams and Lund to oversee each technician’s work on the equipment.

ACOFAS says technicians traveled from across the United States to attend. The focus of the training was frame gauge maintenance, calibration, and use. All of the technicians participated in gauging a truck frame, placement and reading the gauges; assembling and placement of push, pull, and hold fixtures; as well as actually straightening a frame, concentrating on when is enough push ‘enough’ and how to avoid over-correction.

ACOFAS says technicians watched a demonstration by Bee Line engineers of a new “real time” electronic gauging system for truck and trailer frames. This Bee Line product is still in the development stage, however, the company hopes to have this revolutionary product released to the market in the near future.

The next ACOFAS clinic will be held on Nov. 17-18, 2015, at Hendrickson Auxiliary Axle, Hebron, Ohio. This program will focus on king pin replacement, auxiliary axle maintenance, trouble shooting, specification procedures, and manufacturing, ACOFAS says. Additional information regarding this upcoming clinic will be forthcoming shortly.

For information regarding ACOFAS membership or training programs please visit the ACOFAS website at www.acofas.com, or contact Gordon Botts at [email protected].

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