President's Welcome - Corey Glassman

To all ATMC members, future members and other industry professionals:

“We live in exciting and interesting times”, a topic discussed in every corner of our environment, communities and across our dinner table.  This year has the potential to be history making for numerous reasons. One of which is ATMC. Our organization is poised to attract more members and have greater member participation than ever before.

With the rapid pace of change in vehicle technology, training delivery methods, information management and economic conditions affecting all of us, there has NEVER BEEN A MORE IMPORTANT TIME for participating with organizations like ATMC.  Past conferences have introduced us to diverse technical issues like alternative propulsion systems, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles; technician recruitment and Hispanic technician resources; and leading-edge training issues like e-learning, training ROI, and service bay information retrieval using wireless diagnostics and personal heads-up service information systems.

Last fall, ATMC had an outstanding conference in St. Louis, where we shared new ideas and networked to move our industry ahead.  We plan to keep the momentum going with our Spring Conference in Indianapolis.  We are pleased to announce that our host for this event is Lincoln Technical Institute where we will learn about the latest in presentation techniques to a variety of customers...