{"id":2898,"date":"2025-04-08T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:32:40","slug":"where-is-our-across-the-board-awp-or-mewp-aerial-work-platform-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/where-is-our-across-the-board-awp-or-mewp-aerial-work-platform-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial Specialists Asks: Where is our &#8220;Across the Board&#8221; (AWP or MEWP) Aerial Work Platform Training?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Aerial Specialists Asks:<\/h2>\n<h2>Where is our &#8220;Across the Board&#8221; (AWP or MEWP) Aerial Work Platform Training?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>WHERE<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; are the Industries <em><strong>&#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Certifiable Aerial Work Platform Training Schools?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>WHO <\/strong><\/em>&#8211; carries the<em><strong> &#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Certifiable<strong> KNOWLEDGE<\/strong> to Train current Technicians?<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>WHEN<\/em> &#8211;<\/strong> is this going to be addressed openly?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>WHY<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; after <em><strong>95% of our US based Aerial Work Platform Mfg. Companies have gone defunct <\/strong><\/em>why is this still an issue?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>WHERE<\/strong><\/em> is this Technical Training to take place?<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>HOW<\/strong><\/em> can this be achieved?\u00a0 <em><strong>SIMPLE &#8230; ASK !!!<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>WHAT<\/strong><\/em> curriculum should be taught?\u00a0 .. <em><strong>Answer: EVERYTHING!<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NO one is <em>&#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221;<\/em> FACTORY Certified!<\/strong> ( DON&#8217;T KID YOURSELF! )<\/li>\n<li><strong>NO one can be Certified because there are &#8230;..<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NO <em>&#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221;<\/em> Certifiable Training Facilities<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NO &#8220;<em>ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221;<\/em> Certifiable Instructors &amp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NO <em>&#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221;<\/em> Certifiable Curriculum<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>95% of the US AWP industries &#8220;independent dealers&#8221; are now gone. Up until YR-2000, there were 7500 <em>independent dealers<\/em> in the US. Each <em>ORIGINAL AWP Mfg. Company<\/em> (75 of them) <em>had 2-Dealers Per State.<\/em> Now &#8211; <em>there are a BASIC 4 US based AWP Mfg. Companies left<\/em> leaving <em>now approx. 400 independent dealers left in the whole US!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em> \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>The losers here<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 &#8230; are <em><strong>the Un-Aware USERS<\/strong> <\/em>who <em><strong>unknowingly put there lives in Un-Trained &amp; Un-Certified Technicians hands<\/strong><\/em> and the insurers?\u00a0 Our AWP industry just turns a <em>BLIND EYE<\/em> to all of this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial Specialists Asks: Where is our &#8220;Across the Board&#8221; (AWP or MEWP) Aerial Work Platform Training? WHERE &#8211; are the Industries &#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221; Certifiable Aerial Work Platform Training Schools? WHO &#8211; carries the &#8220;ACROSS THE BOARD&#8221; Certifiable KNOWLEDGE to Train current Technicians? WHEN &#8211; is this going to be addressed openly? WHY &#8211; after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,73,27],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-aerial-work-platform","tag-awp-certification","tag-craig-ihde","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerialspecialists.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}