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Instructor Joe Rinas teaches class on 988 wheel loaders in Oregon
The first class was held on October 31, 2017. “It was on the Navistar Diamond Logic Builder soft- ware for programming their trucks,” says Gjerman. “Then in early summer 2018, they approached us about being a factory training center for other dealers’ technicians as well. They were introducing their new A26 engine and wanted to train a lot of technicians quickly. We held our first class on the A26 engine on July 23, 2018, taught by Mike Lasater.”
Navistar Regional Training Center in San Leandro with trainer Matt Torrence
Peterson also holds customized classes, upon re- quest, for customers and manufacturer field train- ing. In 2015, the University provided special train-
ing for Caltrans and Amtrak on their new Tier 4 final, C15 engines. “Between 2009 and 2012, Pe- terson Power repowered the engines that run all the electricity onboard their F-59 locomotive,” says Gjerman. “They had previously bought train- ing for some 3412s back in 2001 but had never used it. So with these new C15 engines, of course, we were happy to put together a class for them that fit their current need.”
In June 2016, June 2017, and July 2018, Peterson University held special AGCO classes in Ore- gon for the Polar Services technicians who main- tain the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Challenger MT865s, the same Challengers Pe- terson custom-built for them back in 2014–15.3 “Customer training is really important to us,” ex- plains Gjerman. “On the surface, selling customer training appears to take away from training our
3 See the full story in CH21 The Antarctic Challenge, on pg 331.
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