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Flat Rate Tech Podcast — 226 episodes

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Title
1

I Can't Tell Technicians They're Wrong

2

The Problem Isn’t Your Technicians. It’s Management

3

The Service Drive Problem: When Numbers Replace Common Sense

4

Shop Supplies: Legitimate Expense or Hidden Revenue?

5

The Technician Trust Crisis: Why Good Techs Stop Caring

6

Why Your Car Comes Back Broken From the Dealership

7

(Favorite) How To Play The GAME 6/24/24

8

The Recruiter Scam: How They Profit From the Technician Shortage

9

ZERO RESPECT FOR LOYALTY: When Managers Feed The New Guy Good Work

10

Should I Become a Mechanic?

11

Desperation Hires, and HOPE

12

The System Works Exactly As Designed

13

Mobile Mechanic: The Way Out?

14

THEY'RE REPLACING YOU ( AND YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT )

15

Why Manager Lie

16

Don't Be That Guy In The Shop

17

Parts Theft

18

Don't Be That Guy In The Shop

19

Fords Forums Taken Down, Everything Deleted

20

There is NO Team in Your Shop, And Training Schools Are A $30k Joke

21

When A Mechanic Finally Snaps

22

The Flat Rate Effect + Everything is the techs fault

23

“Sign This or You Don’t Work Here” The Truth About Shop Hiring

24

Your Shop Is Broke And Your Tech Is Paying For It

25

They Judge You On A Number You Don't Control

26

Dispatch is where techs get paid or played

27

When Master Certified Becomes a Punishment

28

Starting Over Doesn't Scare Techs. Being Wrong Again Does.

29

If You Walk Out, Stay Out.

30

The Only Thing Keeping This Trade Alive

31

When “Professional” Really Means Shut Up

32

NEW YEAR. NOTHING CHANGED

33

We Were Lied To. There Is No Future

34

The Promotion That Never Comes

35

Starving in a Billion Dollar Building

36

Super Tech Scammers and the Managers That Protect Them

37

Dealer Techs Are Just Parts Changers?

38

The Real Reason New Techs Don't Last

39

They Don't Own You, They Just Think They Do

40

Shop Foreman Position Is it WORTH IT?

41

The Last Real Techs

42

The Flat Rate Trap: How AI Will Help The Industry Win

43

When the Techs Stick together, THEY PANIC!

44

The REAL Reason There is a Tech Shortage

45

RENTED PEACE

46

Weapon Words

47

Why New Techs Don’t Last

48

Another Wave Of Techs Leaving

49

Career Growth: The Shop Will Pick Your Path if You Don’t

50

Ford Tech

51

Loyalty Isn’t Free — They’ll Still Lie to Get You Here

52

The Death of Mentorship and the Short Life of Good Shops

53

Flat Rate Life Is OUT NOW! Link Below

54

Grey Mechanic

55

Book Release

56

They Could've Fixed the System. They Branded it Instead.

57

This Job Used to Mean Something

58

Professionalism in a Broken System

59

The Industry Influencer Circus

60

They Train You to Stay Broke

61

15 Techs Quit During This Episode

62

Another Reason Flat Rate is A Scam

63

This Industry Is Killing itself

64

No Hours, No Deal: What Every Mechanic Should Ask During A Job Interview

65

"This Job's Killing Us - And No One Gives a Fuck"

66

I’m a Shop Owner now 3/27/25

67

Crooks 1/27/25

68

2025 Season 1/6/25

69

MERRY Christmas 12/30/24

70

Loyalty 12/16/24

71

Why The New Tech Makes Hours 12/2/24

72

Lube Techs Listen Up! 11/11/24

73

Pros and Cons Being a Mechanic 11/4/24

74

60 year old mechanic? 10/28/24

75

Hurricane 10/8/24

76

Going Downhill 9/30/24

77

More Red Flags 9/23/24

78

Ethiopian Salesman 9/9/24

79

RED FLAGS 9/2/24

80

Email question, Tool prices 8/26/24

81

Shop Around Again 8/19/24

82

You Can Fix Anything 8/12/24

83

Think Positive 7/29/24

84

Hire Them Back, License To Work, 120hrs A Week 7/22/24

85

Why You SUCK! 7/15/24

86

I MADE IT! 7/8/24

87

Traveling Hacks, Top 5%, Electric Bikes 7/1/24

88

How To Play The GAME 6/24/24

89

It's A Cult! 6/17/24

90

Just another one 6/26/24

91

What To Expect 6/2/24

92

Sad Industry 5/19/24

93

Another boring episode 5/7/24

94

Job Ads #2 4/29/24

95

All data is ripping you off!! 4/7/24

96

The System 3/24/24

97

My Hero, What is success, email questions 3/16/24

98

Training SUCKS. 2/25/24

99

It’s Business 2/12/24

100

Shop Forman Position 1/20/24

101

Should I Quit? 1/14/24

102

Email questions and a special guest 1/7/24

103

2024 12/31/23

104

Different 11/26/23

105

Email 11/19/23

106

Tools 11/6/23

107

MMNN 10/29/23

108

Send it 10/22/23

109

Sign on bonus 10/15/23

110

Training A New Tech 9/30/23

111

Harley Technician 9/24/23

112

Strike 9/16/23

113

All About BAGS! 9/9/23

114

Butter It Up! 9/2/23

115

Memes 8/20/23

116

No Respect 7/30/23

117

2 cents 7/22/23

118

Starting Over 7/15/23

119

Get Through The Day 7/3/23

120

What do I do with my tools? 7/3/23

121

Share it 6/26/23

122

Highlights! 6/21/23

123

Should I Train A New Tech? 6/18/23

124

Pay Plan, Porters 6/12/23

125

Mechanic 6/4/23

126

YouTube, Videos, Hobbies 5/30/23

127

The #1 Reason Your Shop Is Failing 5/14/23

128

Tool Box Warranties, Tool Pimps, Hacks 5/7/23

129

Advisor At A Independent Shop! 4/28/23

130

Changes in the shop 4/16/23

131

We Need This For The Industry. 4/23/23

132

The Reality Of Being A Technician #3. 4/9/23

133

New Manager Every Year 4/3/23

134

New Cars 3/26/23

135

Listen To This 3/19/23

136

How Your Lube Shop Should Be Ran? 3/12/23

137

Bonus Episode! 2/27/23

138

The Reality Of Being A Technician #2 2/25/23

139

Side Hustle 2/19/23

140

How To Succeed In A Shop? 2/12/23

141

Started As A Tech At 50? 2/5/23

142

Training 1/29/23

143

Field Service Tech 1/22/23

144

Doctor. 1/15/23

145

Email, Rambling 1/8/23

146

Managers / Stress, It's Your Fault 1/1/23

147

Give it Away. 12/24/22

148

Talk To Your Techs 12/17/22

149

Porsche Tech! 12/4/22

150

Are Tech School Teachers REALLY Telling Students This!?! 11/27/22

151

Nissan Tech. 11/20/22

152

Time To QUIT! 11/15/22

153

Rebuild Your Shop #4 "Traveling Hack" 11/13/22

154

This is for the new techs. 11/6/22

155

That Shop Closed Down! 10/17/22

156

Lizard People, And Emails 10/16/22

157

The Reality Of Being A Technician. 10/9/22

158

Audi dealer to Independent shop 9/29/22

159

6 Day Work Weeks!?! Bikes, And Beer. 9/25/22

160

Rebuild Your Shop #3 Team Leaders. 9/11/22

161

Top 5 Reasons I Want To QUIT!!!! 9/2/22

162

SHEEP 8/18/22

163

Mobil Hacks, Body Shop Techs, Rambling 8/7/22

164

Rebuild Your Shop Series 2 STANDARDS. 7/30/22

165

Buddy system, Lost Another Tech. 7/21/22

166

Rebuild Your Shop Series #1. 7/16/22

167

ClickBait, You are the problem, FIX IT 7/8/22

168

Warranty times, Tool Trucks,Tech Shortage, Trade Schools. 6/20/22

169

Here Is Your Chance, Motivation. 6/4/22

170

So You Want To Be A Shop Foreman? 5/21/22

171

Top 5 Reasons Why I'm Still A Mechanic. 5/15/22

172

Techs Talk, FIX your shop FIRST before trying to hire more 5/7/22

173

Different Techs in every shop 5/1/22

174

Super Tech, F1 3/28/22

175

Advisors, F1, Ribs, Melting Pot 3/20/22

176

It's a Dirty Game 3/6/22

177

Thinking about starting your own shop? Listen to this episode first 9/25/21

178

Palm trees and lawn mowers? 7/1/21

179

Dispatching Work

180

Don't Be A Hack

181

The solution for the tech shortage?

182

This is why the industry is where it is

183

Salesman

184

Clunkers

185

Boss Hack

186

Top 10 highest paying mechanic jobs, and a Bum

187

Crazy guy in the shop

188

He Made The Move You Can Too 8/22

189

Import vs Domestic shops, Contracts? 3/22/22

190

Just let Them have a day off

191

What do you really do for technicians?

192

Your boy changed!

193

Dream crusher, what's wrong with this industry part 1

194

Watch out for the new tech!

195

Episode 8

196

!!NEW EPISODE!! Whoops.

197

"Shop Life" Animation Series

198

Shop Life

199

Traveling Hack Of The Year Award Goes To

200

5 Things I wish I knew Before Becoming A Mechanic

201

Flat Rate VS Hourly

202

5 deadly sins at the service counter per auto news

203

Heavy Line Fleet Tech

204

Shop Around

205

Aaron Automotive

206

Be a Hero

207

Can't find or keep technicians?

208

Tool pimp coming! What’s in your cup?

209

Technicians crashing customer cars, Ranked Top 25 Auto Podcasts! Nismo GTR

210

Is it worth it?

211

Dealership Tech to independent

212

Want Technicians? Fix this first

213

Throw it all in a lake

214

Traveling Hacks

215

Top 12 air tools?

216

From A Honda dealership to Power Sports!

217

Audi Tech

218

Honda Tech from Canada

219

Can You Relate?

220

Why you should NOT work for FREE

221

Flat Rate Has To DIE!

222

Tour Bus Mechanic

223

Lamborghini Tech!

224

Freedom Hater

225

The Truth Behind Job Ads

226

The industry