NRVTA Promoting RV Lifestyle While Growing Tech Ranks – RVBusiness [Video]

The National RV Training Academy (NRVTA) in Athens, Texas, is looking to expand its operation with a satellite school and potential additional learning centers in the next 18 months.

Terry Cooper, managing director of the school built on turning out educated RV owners, inspectors and service technicians, said it’s not so much that the current facility is too small, but with growing ranks of technicians seeking education and people from other fields seeking to join those ranks, it can be difficult to accommodate the time needs of people needing to maintain current employment.

“The way our program is set up, you take it in one-week blocks,” Cooper said. “You can take RV Fundamentals and come back and see us in three or four months and take Air Conditioning. In five weeks, it’s broken up. By doing these satellite schools, it’s a quick way for somebody to take a week class in Georgia or Florida or something …