Diesel Mechanics: Similarities And Differences

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Diesel Mechanics and Auto Mechanics share both similarities and differences when it comes to their duties and responsibilities. The similarities can include the responsibility of staying up to date on the latest technology used in both diesel and regular gas powered vehicles. Plus fixing, repairing, and inspecting either type of engine by making sure the vehicles engine is working properly. The differences can include the duties of fixing only diesel powered engines to fixing things that do not have diesel powered engines. Also one works on small cars and trucks, while one works on big trucks, boats, buses, and construction equipment, such as bulldozers, and excavators. The career paths of Diesel Mechanics and Auto Mechanics also have both similarities and differences in terms of the duties involved, the rewards, and challenges. It is also important to notice the similarities and differences in terms of the positive benefits that each job provides. Some of the shared benefits are, they pay starting out at about 15 to 20 dollars an hour, and another thing is that both careers help you to be able to fix your own vehicle if it breaks down. But, there are some unshared benefits that include getting paid top dollar at 33 dollars an hour to getting paid 45 dollars an …show more content…

These two jobs share some key challenges such as diagnosing and solving problems, and having to deal with impatient and rude customers. Yet, aside from the challenges they share, each job path has its own separate difficulties as well. For example, a diesel mechanic sometimes has to work on huge machines like excavators which have places that are dangerous and hard to get to, while an auto mechanic works on small cars and trucks that can have many things that can go wrong between the battery and gas that make them difficult to figure out the problem making it take longer to figure

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