[BonzoHansen]

I lost my best tech to a Jeep dealer. At my place he was between $65k and $85k a year (plus benefits & ESOP), depending on business. W/I one year at Jeep he was around 100k. He found that was good at rebuilding those junky Jeep transmissions. IIRC, he told me warranty labor was ~8 hours R&R and he could knock out 2 a day. The service writers loved him for that too, so they fed him work. He was no ordinary tech – I swear he could have fixed the space shuttle if it landed on route 9 – and he had an excellent work ethic.