Doosan Bobcat Donates Seven Machines to Four Vocational Schools

Doosan Bobcat North America has donated seven Bobcat Machines to four regional vocational schools for their service technician training programs.

Michael Roth

Oct. 25, 2017

2 min read

Compact excavators were among the machines Doosan Bobcat donated to four technical colleges.

Doosan Bobcat North America has donated seven Bobcat Machines to four regional vocational schools for their service technician training programs.

Multiple pieces of Bobcat equipment, including compact track loaders, compact excavators, all-wheel steer loaders and VersaHandler telescopic tool carriers were delivered to Conestoga College in Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wis.; Minnesota State Community & Technical College in Moorhead, Minn.; and State University of New York in Cobleskill, N.Y.

The training programs provide top instruction for service technicians and students on how to troubleshoot, service, repair and rebuild compact equipment, and learn advanced equipment technologies. By focusing on vocational schools, Doosan Bobcat has been able to support and nurture individuals’ aspirations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related studies by helping to energize a future pipeline of skilled professionals. These STEM programs are fundamental to the company’s continued success and growth of a qualified employee base.

“The hands-on training programs help take individuals’ natural talents and creativity and mold them into useful skills that can help build a rewarding career,” said Laura Ness Owens, director of marketing for Doosan Bobcat North America. “By partnering with vocational schools, we can help turn an interest in technology into valuable skills that can be used later on in the equipment industry. This partnership is something we take great pride in at Doosan Bobcat.”

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.