Southeastern Freight Lines to also use the product for its Technician Challenge

Mitchell 1, the leading provider of technical information for vehicle maintenance, service and repair, today announced that South Carolina Trucking Association has selected the Company’s Tractor-Trailer.net web-based service and repair information database to be used in the Service Literature portion of the South Carolina Technicians Skills Challenge. Story on eTrucker.com and FleetOwner.com.

“Computer literacy has become a very important part of a technician’s overall skill set.”  said Lee Long, manager of fleet services at Southeastern Freight Lines and chairman of the South Carolina Technicians Skills Challenge. “We are opening our competition to a wide variety of competitors. We wanted something that could be used by all of our participants. Since Tractor-Trailer.net offers a broad database of information, we elected to proceed with the use of it in our competition.”

In addition to being used at the South Carolina Technicians Skills Challenge, Mitchell 1 has offered a 14-day free trial to Southeastern Freight Lines to be used for their internal Skills Challenge on June 16th.

Tractor-Trailer.net is the trucking industry’s first complete web-based service and repair information source for all heavy-duty tractor, dry van and reefer makes dating back to 1990. Updated monthly, the product requires no software installation and comes equipped with full-color, fully searchable system wiring diagrams for over 1,100 Class 7 & 8 tractors and over 1,800 reefer and dry van trailers.

About Mitchell 1

Headquartered in Poway, California, Mitchell 1 has continuously provided top-quality repair information solutions to the transportation industry for more than 80 years. Mitchell 1 is a recipient of the ASE Blue Seal of Excellence award and currently employs several ASE certified Technicians, of which many are either Truck certified or Master Truck Technicians. Combined, Mitchell 1 Technical Editors maintain over 600 ASE certifications, and 12 employees have attained QUAD MASTER and WORLD CLASS status. The Mitchell 1 family of products includes a complete line of integrated software tools designed to improve repair shop productivity including Tractor-Trailer.net, the trucking industry’s first complete web-based heavy-duty vehicle service and repair database. For more information regarding Mitchell 1 products, service professionals may visit the company’s website at www.mitchell1.com. For more information on Tractor-Trailer.net please visit www.tractor-trailer.net.

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Jill Schafer

Jill Schafer is the Marketing Communication Manager at Mitchell 1 and has over 20 years of marketing experience with high-technology organizations, including over 10 years in the automotive information industry.