Wow, guys. Even years after we posted this, all these comments are so wonderful and inspiring. Aymee is still with us and doing what she does best - rocking it! Thank you so much for watching her story.
Keep up the good work. I have spent 10 years with my wife and I always love helping my lady increase her confidence and knowledge. She's a horse woman and drives a 08 F350 dually long bed crew cab we built the engine in it together a few years ago. It had 226000miles on it when we lifted the cab. Now the truck has almost 500,000mi and is still her primary vehicle. I love looking out the window in the morning and seeing her check oil and antifreeze before she rolls out. She pulls a 5th wheel horse trailer, 40' long like its a golf cart. When I met her she was only 19 but she wanted to do everything guys do. I enjoyed telling her she can do anything I loved teaching her what I know to help her get there. Now she can out drive most men and diagnose truck problems on her own. A shop couldn't rip her off if they tried. She travels from florida to northern canada with horses and always makes it safely, on time. When we built the truck we also got arp studs, injectors and tuning. The truck made 700wheel hp and around 1500 ftlbs. She likes using the power and shes good at it.
I'm a female diesel mechanic as well never meet or saw or even spoke to any others females such as myself this post is awsome. And it's TRUE this field is ruff for us. In lots of ways.
I just wanted to update you guys, I ended up finding a program through red River college in Winnipeg, Manitoba, they have a Peterbilt program over there and I ended up getting in, they trained me and I passed my course, I now work with a Peterbilt in British Columbia. You can really find courage with motivation interviews like this and I thank you once again and I am happy to hear she's doing well in the business. 👍♥️
Nice to see women get into the Diesel mechanic field. Been doing it 20 years. I suggest you wear safety glasses at all times and gloves. Unless you did not wear it for filming purposes. I love to mentor young fresh mechanics. Great mechanics do a good job and do it right the first time. When you make a mistake you own it. Great mechanics keep their tool box organized and clean. We work on cars at home off the clock also. We put tools away as we work. Not at the end of the day when we have a huge pile of tools on our box. I cannot stand dirty mechanics in appearance and the things they own. These people just clock in and out and go home. Nice video
@2:53 She's bursting with pride and trying to be humble at the same time. From the story she tells, my wager is a broken wire. Just had to repair the two core on my lawnmower but that's cause I ran over it. A core break on a vehicle is much more fun to find.
ref: Check Engine Warning Light problem The answer's in what she tells you - a broken wire. The young lady made a new harness and the problem disappeared. A broken wire at some point that looses continuity when its in a certain position by operation or expanded by heat. Can actually be difficult to find but a bit of initiative won the day - a new harness. Well done young lady!
I concur, a broken wire. The times I've had to replace the cable on a power tool when one of the cores have broken because of the flexing at the handle base grip. Once had to run a new wire for a Ford's heater blower because of a break.
@dallastxracing More sarcasm I presume? "she apparently doesn’t know anything about electrical" neither do the Peterbilt fellas otherwise they'd have fixed it.
This is sooo great!! I work in HD Diesel repair, and it’s TOUGH work. Hats off to you for breaking the mold and helping to add diversity to this field. Props to the dealership that gave you a shot to let you show your talent!!
I think that is one of the tougher mechanical trades. Great to see women and especially the one interviewed with her peer notably coming into the crew, and her boss and male peers. Happy Women's Month to female mechanics, techs and engineers.
Kudos for you girl!!! As a man going into Nursing i know what it is like to be subjected to scrutiny and i embrace it. Tell me i can't do something and it makes me want to do it more. We need to break the mold as a society that your gender can't do something. The mechanic trade is 98.7% men so she is the 1%er and she should be proud.
We should get to a point where a female service technician of whatever engine category would not raise an eyebrow more than seeing a female receptionist, secretary or doctor working in a hospital.
Been work on all new truck that come out, already in the 2022 peterbuilts, been in the field all my life, 50 years old know, and looking for a job again, lol
Got a Cummins ISX trouble trouble question for Aymee we have 2014 KW T800 with a ISX500 and it's fuel but won't start if starts won't rev up to idle RPM kind of like D rating though lol no we can't bring it to to fix Aymee we are up in Saskatchewan Canada lol we have KW in Regina the tried coding the ECM but nothing have ye ran across that problem before ?
Been a diesel mechanic for 40 years... it’s a hot, dirty, cold, lots of back problems job... I do not recommend it for anyone... do something else... everything will be electric in the next 20 years... why bother...
This video made my day, not because she is a lady, it is because it is story of an individual who started from nowhere, and earned respect from the people around her. That's a big deal in life
I am starting. In the shop as we speak . Still a student. And it takes us two women to pick up a power steering gear to get on the vice 😂 and some of those bolts. Ugh got me feeling a little discouraged. That’s why I came here. To see how other women do it
It’s not breaking tradition, it’s finding non traditional people WHO WANT TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS! Just like there are not too many non husky males on a drilling rig floor, first you have to want to do it and then you have to be physically capable of doing the job. I believe it is rare today to have gender as a sole deterrent to employment for just about any job.
