A week in the life of a TEMPORARY VEHICLE TECHNICIAN

Demand for vehicle technicians has reached a critical point. Difficulties surrounding the recruitment and retention of technicians have been well documented for some time. But the pandemic has expediated the crisis, with aftermarket businesses loosing potentially thousands of pounds a day as a result of labour gaps.

Autotech Recruit, who manages the UK’s largest network of temporary vehicle technicians and MOT testers, has reported a huge rise in demand from the industry for contractors to cover resource issues.

Here, we follow a temporary vehicle technician for a week to understand what it’s really like to be a contractor in the automotive aftermarket,