Darrell Tarry, Director of Maintenance for Nagle Companies, a trucking company
headquartered in Walbridge, Ohio, is on the lookout for young people searching for
a satisfying career in a great work environment. Mr. Tarry said, “Well what I’d like
to do right now is start an entry level program with some young people right out of
high school, male or female. If you have a mechanical aptitude, if you have a desire
to work on heavy equipment, if you just want to see what it’s all about I encourage
you to come in and talk to my associate Holly Cerato or myself and we’ll discuss
what we’re looking for. This is a great field to be in, it’s got flexible hours, it’s a team
atmosphere and you really leave out of here at the end of the day knowing
something new.”
Mr. Tarry says that experience at the entry level position is not necessary, however
this career will be appealing to someone who not only has an interest in how
mechanics work but also a person needs to have drive to do their best everyday. He
stated, “Well of course mechanical aptitude is the foremost thing, but just the drive
to accomplishment. You know everything that comes in here is normally broken
and when it leaves here you have a self-accomplishment that you repaired it. You
repaired it safely, you repaired it accurately and when the driver goes out on the
road, they’re driving amongst their family and they are as safe as they can possibly
be.”
Nagle provides the education and it’s the real thing of working on trucks from day
one. No standard classroom setting at Nagle. Mr. Tarry explained, “It’s hands on,
especially at the entry level position. You work with someone who’s been around
for a long time and they are going to show you the way to do things and you’re not
instructed to go ahead and start working on things if you have not been trained. So
we really bring them from the ground level up.”
The mechanics at Nagle see this all-important work as a professional career. Not
only that, but the work environment at Nagle is family oriented and people tend to
stay and build their careers there. “I’ve got two guys who have been here thirty plus
years”, Mr. Tarry reported. “Out of an eight man team right now I have three or four
that are in their tenth year or longer. I’ve got a couple of guys who have been here
just a year.”
While entry-level mechanics learn at Nagle, they are paid too. Mr. Tarry describes
the pay scale this way: “We pay on a tiered level. We start our entry levels at
anywhere between eighteen and nineteen dollars an hour. After ninety days they
are offered our benefit package that can go as high up as thirty dollars an hour. I
just hired a young man and he came straight out of a career center and said that he
had never thought he would be making this type of money this fast coming out of
high school and he was very pleased with what we have shown him and where
we’re taking him. So our program works.”
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And when you learn at Nagle, you learn from people with the highest standards in
the industry. Mr. Tarry praised his team by saying, “I couldn’t be prouder of the
group of guys because every year we pride ourselves on the fact that when the
Department Of Transportation does their inspections, we don’t get pulled around
back for mechanical issues.”
The future is bright for young people seeking a career as a mechanic at Nagle
Companies and the rewards are great. Mr. Tarry said, “In the trucking industry, the
parts never get lighter, the job never gets easier. It’s the younger guys that have to
come in and realize the older guys are not going to be able to hold that starter up at
eighty-seven pounds. So our philosophy is if you have a mechanical aptitude and
you want to grow with a company and you want to work flexible hours in a family
environment, a team environment, we’re the team for you.”
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