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Article: R-e-s-p-e-c-t. (Toyota Motor Corp.'s 1996 Master Technician Skills Contest winner Antonio Rodrigues)
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- Automotive News
- Article date:
- July 29, 1996
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Master technician certification is providing status for well-schooled service providers
There are a lot of things you can call a guy like Antonio Rodrigues.
Call him Toyota's finest master technician or a highly trained expert of automotive machinery. A certified wizard of eight separate automotive systems might be an appropriate name, too.
But don't call him a mechanic.
Rodrigues, who repairs vehicles at Middle Island Toyota in Middle Island, N.Y., won Toyota Motor Corp. in U.S.A.'s annual Master Technician Skills Contest in May.
The 30-year-old vocational school graduate beat out 17 other master technicians to become Toyota's top master ...