![Edu5.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide_penton/gallery_images/Edu5.JPG "<p>Navistar's "Educator" trailers optimally host six fleet technicians per training session.</p>")
![Edu3.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide_penton/gallery_images/Edu3.JPG "<p>During its sojourn to San Antonio, Navistar's "Educator" trailer came equipped with three MaxxForce engines, with the one in the middle capable of being fired up for full operation. </p>")
![Edu1.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide_penton/gallery_images/Edu1.JPG "<p>Once classes are completed, the "wings" of the "Educator" are pushed in to make the trailer "street legal" for highway operation. </p>")
![Edu4.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide_penton/gallery_images/Edu4.JPG "<p>Navistar's Kosko explained that having engines completely "exposed" in such fashion allows for better hands-on training for fleet technicians.</p>")
![Edu2.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide_penton/gallery_images/Edu2.JPG "<p>Navistar's Kosko says the goal of using such "mobile training solutions" is to help fleet customers make better maintenance decisions, especially about determining when it's best to fix something in-house or send it out to a dealership.</p>")
![Edu5.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_thumb_penton/gallery_images/Edu5.JPG "<p>Navistar's "Educator" trailers optimally host six fleet technicians per training session.</p>")
![Edu3.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_thumb_penton/gallery_images/Edu3.JPG "<p>During its sojourn to San Antonio, Navistar's "Educator" trailer came equipped with three MaxxForce engines, with the one in the middle capable of being fired up for full operation. </p>")
![Edu1.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_thumb_penton/gallery_images/Edu1.JPG "<p>Once classes are completed, the "wings" of the "Educator" are pushed in to make the trailer "street legal" for highway operation. </p>")
![Edu4.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_thumb_penton/gallery_images/Edu4.JPG "<p>Navistar's Kosko explained that having engines completely "exposed" in such fashion allows for better hands-on training for fleet technicians.</p>")
![Edu2.JPG](http://fleetowner.com/site-files/fleetowner.com/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_thumb_penton/gallery_images/Edu2.JPG "<p>Navistar's Kosko says the goal of using such "mobile training solutions" is to help fleet customers make better maintenance decisions, especially about determining when it's best to fix something in-house or send it out to a dealership.</p>")
Truck & engine maker Navistar operates three specially-designed trailers -- euphemistically dubbed "Educators" -- and puts two on the road at any one time for 30 weeks at a pop to provide its major fleet customers with technician training support. At the 2013 Rush Truck Centers Technician Skills Rodeo in San Antonio TX last December, Wayne Kosko, Navistar's service education manager, gave Fleet Owner a tour of one of its "Educator" trailers.
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I was very interested to see this article. For 14 years I did mobile training for Navistar. My contract was to train dealer techs. in Canada and Northern US for 40 weeks per year. I started out using my F50 ford pulling a small trailer with three 466 engines onboard plus all the other necessary items. Later I used a 450 ford with 7.3 diesel and a 30 foot trailer weighing 35,000 lbs. During the later years I used a 4700 LP International pulling a 30 foot trailer weighing 45,000 lbs. I used the College system here in Canada for a shop and classroom and Dealer shops in the US. I would have thought I had died and gone to heaven if Navistar had given me a rig like that to drive all over the Continent. I generally drove 80,000 miles per year and flew almost as many in a year. I loved the job and wish I had stayed for a few more years. I'm still not too old to do that job! I could play catch up real quick as I stay in tune with the industry by building Training Simulators for the heavy truck Educational institutions. Would like to know when this truck will be in Canada as I welcome the chance to see it up close and personal. Keep me posted with any information you publish in regards to heavy vehicle training.
Regards, Tom MacKay