Automotive Management Institute (AMI) provides and promotes practical business management education tailored to the automotive service industry. AMI was established to answer the demand for continuing education tailored specifically for the business needs of the automotive service industry. The Institute offers the Accredited Automotive Manager (AAM) designation, the first business management accreditation exclusively for the automotive service professional. Visit the AMI Web site for course information.

Automotive Video Inc. (Team AVI) produces diagnostic training to help repair shops excel in the ever-changing technology of the auto repair industry. The company offers full-service tech training from the industry's top instructors, with learning materials available on DVDs, VHS tapes, manuals, audio tapes, and live seminars.

Autoshop101 provides automotive training support for automotive technicians, students and teachers. Online ASE style practice tests, technical articles and online tutorials are provided.

AutoPersonnel.com provides staffing services for all automotive-related positions: management, technicians and body repair people.

AutoTechWages.com offers an Automotive technician wage Survey and Results. We also offer a FREE jobs posting database and a FREE Training posting database. Who can use a site like this? Techs, Shop owners, Trainers, Prospective future Techs. We want to be the site Techs go to to find a job, training, and an idea of what an average wage is for an automotive technician.

Bergwall Productions offers Internet courses, books, videocassettes and CD-ROMs for automotive technicians seeking study guides for ASE certification tests. Courses contain up-to-date information and practical hands-on demonstrations. In addition to the complete line of ASE Test Preparation materials, the company's SHOPTALK series provides technicians with the skills-based training needed to service today's vehicles.

Congress of Automotive Repair and Service (CARS) is the premier event of mechanical and transmission repair. CARS is unmatched in regard to seminars, workshops and presentations and offers a combination of management and technical seminars geared specifically for each specialization.

Concept Schools Inc. (CSI) provides a 5-week, 140-hour service advisor course that is designed to give students the precise knowledge and skills needed to excel in the automotive industry. Students are trained in customer service, phone skills, CSI, OEM & aftermarket warranty, vehicle maintenance schedules and requirements, labor time guides, and the creation of legal repair orders and final invoices.

Council for Advanced Automotive Trainers (CAAT) is an automotive technical and technician training organization, providing training programs, information and networking resources for automotive trainers and professional technicians.

Environmental Development Corp. develops environmental/safety guides for vehicle maintenance operations and training programs for technicians. A training video service is also available.

The Global Automotive Aftermarket Symposium Scholarship Fund was set up to help students pursuing careers in the automotive aftermarket. Since the program began in 1996, more than 1,150 scholarships have been awarded.

Horizon Training offers management classes throughout the US for Automotive Repair Shops. The classes are designed to increase profits through increased productivity and efficiency. Participants learn skills and systems which can be implemented immediately to reduce stress and to give the automotive repair shop owner control over his/her business.

I-CAR is an independent, not-for-profit technical training organization. All I-CAR activities focus on helping the collision industry achieve a high level of technical training.

Management Success delivers seminars and training exclusively designed for automotive repair shop owners. The "How to Increase Profits" is an informative and entertaining two-day seminar designed to open your eyes to the real profits that can be had in an automotive shop and give you real management help that you can take back to the shop and use. Visit this site and take the Black Hole Test to receive a no-cost, no obligation analysis of your shop by a trained consultant.

Melior Inc.'s sole business is teaching automotive diagnostics through its Web-based courses, field trainers and on-site courses for fleets, manufacturers, auto dealers and independent repair shops. The company is associated with the Professional College of the Melior Institute.

Michigan Virtual Automotive College (MVAC) is a private not-for-profit corporation formed by the State of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, the state's other colleges and universities, and the auto industry. MVAC will integrate the automotive education and training offerings of Michigan's higher education providers with the support services needed to provide convenient, cost effective, and high-quality automotive education and training.

The National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) was founded in 1983 as an independent, non-profit organization with a single mission: To evaluate technician training programs against standards developed by the automotive industry and recommend qualifying programs for certification (accreditation) by ASE, the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence.

The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Web site offers information on certification courses, NATEF, racing and other automotive repair industry topics.

R. L. O'Connor & Associates, Inc. has been presenting well attended management workshops throughout North America for owners and employees of automotive repair shops since 1988. Participants of these workshops learn skills and systems which can be immediately implemented, and will bring immediate results in the areas of business control, staff acquisition and retention, efficiency, and profits. Many of the workshops are approved by the Automotive Management Institute (AMI) for credits towards becoming an Accredited Automotive Manager (AAM).

Vale National Training Centers has over 50 years of experience training auto damage estimators. Their Web site provides online descriptions of their Auto Estimators courses for beginners and registration. A simple e-mail form allows readers to contact Vale for a complete course catalog or registration assistance.

Veejer Enterprises offers training programs on troubleshooting electrical and electronic systems in auto, truck and heavy equipment.