The two-year Motive Power Technician - Diesel Equipment and Truck Ontario College Diploma program, delivered in a compressed format over 42 weeks, prepares you to enter a variety of careers in the heavy equipment repair and service industry. This program gives you a combination of hands-on skills and theoretical knowledge for the diesel equipment and truck repair and service industry. Algonquin College`s Transportation Technology Centre provides you with access to modern equipment, enabling you to learn about advanced technology in today`s diesel equipment and truck industries. Through a series of classroom-based courses and extensive practical labs, you learn skills specific to heavy trucks and diesel equipment, including: shop procedures and safety vehicle maintenance and repair drivelines chassis operational principles of systems common to most diesel equipment and trucks fuel and electrical systems internal combustion engines The curriculum has been designed to align with existing provincial apprenticeship competencies. Upon graduation, you are well-prepared to challenge the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development exemption exams for Commercial Vehicle and Equipment (Level 1 Powered Lift Truck, Farm, Heavy Equipment and Truck Apprenticeships). Graduates interested in pursuing Red Seal provincial recognition may also choose to further prepare for those examinations. As a graduate of this program, you may find employment in a number of sectors within this industry, including: private and public organizations in the heavy truck and coach industries agriculture forestry mineral harvesting construction related diesel equipment fields