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Independent shops want Congress to fund technician apprenticeships — Tyreese breaks down the 37,000-tech shortfall and what a small operator can do about hiring this week.
Tyreese Burton
Oil Change Expert
Originally aired 2026-10-26 on the Mobile Oil Change Industry podcast.
Independent shops want Congress to fund technician apprenticeships — Tyreese breaks down the 37,000-tech shortfall and what a small operator can do about hiring this week.
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Look, I want to talk about the one problem that can shut your whole week down faster than a busted pump or a supplier shorting your oil. It is not the price of oil this week. It is not a new competitor opening up down the street. It is that there is nobody left to turn the wrench.
Here is the thing. Yesterday, Sunday, a report out of Washington landed that put real numbers on something every operator I know has been feeling in their gut for months. Independent auto repair shops are pushing Congress to fund technician apprenticeship programs, and the reason they are pushing is simple. We do not have enough techs, and the pipeline is not keeping up.
Let me give you the numbers, because they are stark. According to the National Automobile Dealers Association, about thirty-nine thousand new service techs graduate from career technical colleges and training programs in this country every year. Sounds like a lot, right? Except the industry needs to replace nearly seventy-six thousand techs every year, just to keep up with retirements and new job demand. Do that math with me. Thirty-nine thousand coming in, seventy-six thousand needed. That leaves a shortfall of about thirty-seven thousand trained techs, every single year. Not once. Every year. Year after year, the gap just keeps compounding.
Video summary coming soon — a visual breakdown of the key points from this episode.
Tyreese Burton is the owner-operator of MOMS Mobile Oil Change in the Philadelphia area and host of the Mobile Oil Change Industry daily podcast. He covers the business of mobile automotive service — pricing, operations, fleet contracts, and industry shifts — from the driver's seat.
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