Amarillo College has launched a unique employee-training partnership with ASCO Equipment that gives ASCO employees the opportunity to earn Level I certificates in diesel technology without leaving their workplace to do so.

ASCO is a provider of heavy construction and material-handling equipment throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern New Mexico. The partnership, which involves a 16-week course of study, is initially being piloted at 8 of ASCO’s 27 locations in accordance with the College’s work-based earn-and-learn model.