Mission Statement
Cleaner air through technician training.
Smart Tech Training opened in July 2015, to provide biennial Smog Update Classes for licensed Smog Check Repair Technicians on the central coast of California. It has evolved into a full-service Smog Check Training Center, offering all the classes required by the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) for technicians renewing their Smog Technician Repair License and for future Smog Check Technicians working on obtaining their Smog Inspector License or Smog Repair Technician License.
Our goal at STT is to provide high quality, job-relevant, readily available training and regularly scheduled classes for licensed Smog Inspectors and Repair Technicians in Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Monterey Counties. And to provide the BAR required training for technicians applying for a Smog Inspector or Smog Repair Technician License.
About Your Instructor
Richard Leonard
Richard has over 50-years-experience in the automotive repair industry as an automotive repair business owner, an automotive repair technician, a Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) Representative, and as an educator. With twenty-years-experience working for the BAR in the Smog Check Program, he has acquired extensive knowledge of Smog Check Laws, regulations and requirements.
As an educator, Richard has 23 years’ experience teaching automotive technology. In addition to teaching classes at Smart Tech Training, Richard also teaches advanced automotive classes at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo and Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria.
Richard is an ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician, a licensed Smog Check Inspector, a licensed Smog Check Repair Technician, and a licensed BAR Certified Smog Check Instructor.
BAR Certified Instructor Licensed Instructor Number: CI025651
Contact:
Phone: (805) 534-3582
Email: [email protected]
As an educator, Richard has 23 years’ experience teaching automotive technology. In addition to teaching classes at Smart Tech Training, Richard also teaches advanced automotive classes at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo and Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria.
Richard is an ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician, a licensed Smog Check Inspector, a licensed Smog Check Repair Technician, and a licensed BAR Certified Smog Check Instructor.
BAR Certified Instructor Licensed Instructor Number: CI025651
Contact:
Phone:
(805) 534-3582
Email: [email protected]