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Trucking Cares Foundation Donates $40,000 to Support Truck Driver Training

August 30, 2024 – The Trucking Cares Foundation recently donated $40,000 to the Next Generation in Trucking Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to training the next generation of trucking industry professionals. Fleetowner

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Trucking Cares Foundation Donates $40,000 to Support Truck Driver Training

August 28, 2024 – The Trucking Cares Foundation, the trucking industry’s charitable arm, donated $40,000 to the Next Generation in Trucking Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to engaging and training the

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Adding Truck Driving Training to High School Career Programs

July 19, 2024 – Learn what the Next Generation in Trucking Association is doing to bring more drivers and technicians into trucking as a first career choice. Heavy Duty Trucking

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The catch-22 of having young truck drivers

May 23, 2024 – The meandering path to licensing drivers 18-21 years old to operate commercial vehicles across state lines received a bit of reprieve as Congress looks to revise

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Building the Next Generation of Professional Truck Drivers

May 14, 2024 – Trucking companies can start reaching younger audiences by making their presence known at high school and technical college career fairs, implementing training programs that target younger

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Trucking Announcements: Erb receives purpose award, Cummins promotes Trueblood

May 6, 2024 – TMSA’s Purpose Award honors the top five companies within the transportation and logistics industry that demonstrate a commitment to corporate social responsibility, community engagement and sustainability.

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High School trucking program instructor up for big award

May 2, 2024 – California’s Patterson High School is the home base of Dave Dein and his well-known, in some ways pioneering, CDL truck driving instruction program for high school

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High school trucking program instructor Dave Dein advances toward Teacher of the Year honors

May 1, 2024 – California’s Patterson High School is the home base of Dave Dein and his well-known, in some ways pioneering, CDL truck driving instruction program for high school

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Program offering free CDL training, high school students outreach to tackle truck driver shortage

April 30, 2024 – A lack of qualified commercial truck drivers and an aging driver population remains pressing concerns within the trucking sector.  CCJ

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High School Teacher Honored for Truck-Driving Curriculum

April 26, 2024 — Dave Dein, who has been leading an effort to get truck-driver education into high schools, recently was honored as the 2025 California Association of Career and

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Trucking instructor honored as California Teacher of the Year by ACTE

April 21, 2024 – In recognition of his work to promote the trucking industry and provide training and education to a new generation, Dave Dein has been named California’s 2025

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High Schools driving students to trucking with training classes

April 15, 2024 — Patterson, Calif. — More students are getting behind the wheel of trucks as dozens of high schools across the U.S. offer classes to help them obtain

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Recruiting Leaders Say Demand for Truck Drivers Still Strong

February 23, 2024 — Most companies attending the Recruiting & Retention Conference say they have held on to their human resource professionals as trucking industry recruiters endure the freight recession.

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High school truck driving course teaches students the ways of the road

November 23, 2023 – It’s not too often you’ll hear even a novice compare a golf cart to an 18-wheeler. But for a portion of Patterson High School’s truck driving

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Next Generation in Trucking Foundation launches CDL curriculum companion

October 12, 2023 — The Next Generation in Trucking Foundation (NGT) is launching a first-of-its-kinds “NGT Curriculum Companion ” to support high school Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) programs nationwide. The

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Next Generation in Trucking Foundation expands driver training opportunities

November 20, 2023 – Eduardo is a 4.0 GPA student getting his hands on the big rig wheel and his eyes on a high-tech career. Leilani is a diesel technician

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Next Generation in Trucking Foundation Launches CDL Curriculum Companion

October 17, 2023— This month, the Next Generation in Trucking (NGT) Foundation is launching the first-of-its-kind NGT Curriculum Companion to support high school Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) programs nationwide. Fleetowner.com

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Next-gen drivers, educators have new high-school CDL training tool

October 11, 2023 – The Next Generation in Trucking Foundation (NGT) is launching a first-of-its-kind “NGT Curriculum Companion” to support high school Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) programs nationwide. The Curriculum,

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Next Generation in Trucking’s New Curriculum Support High School CDL Programs

October 10, 2023 — The Next Generation in Trucking (NGT) Foundation announced plans to launch a first-of-its-kind NGT Curriculum Companion to support high school commercial driver’s license (CDL) programs nationwide.

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Carriers offer food, prizes, apparel and more during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week

September 8, 2023 – They’re the backbone of the American Economy, moving freight – from food and clothes to fuel and life-saving medicines – across the country to a store

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Michigan School Finds Success Training Student Truckers

July 17, 2023 – An Ann Arbor, Mich., community college says the demand for more truck drivers and the popularity of its training program are the main reasons why a

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Women of Trucking Advisory Board makes suggestions for driver recruitment and retention

JULY 3, 2023 – Recruitment and retention were the focus of conversation during the most recent meeting of the Women of Trucking Advisory Board. The group held its third meeting

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The Truckers of Tomorrow

June 23, 2023 – How Fleets Are Attracting The Next Generation of Drivers. In the years ahead, the essential task of hauling the nation’s freight and keeping the economy rolling

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Love’s gift helps school CDL program teach about distracted/impaired driving

May 24, 2023 – Love’s Travel Stops recently made a donation to the Patterson High School Truck Driving Program that enabled the California school to create a distracted/impaired driving course

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Parke Heritage High School’s new CDL program gets more equipment, students share their experience

April 24, 2023 – High school students in Parke county have been getting behind-the-wheel on the road to getting their CDL licenses. Over the past spring semester, Parke Heritage High

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Planting the Seed: Introducing Children to Trucking

April 21, 2023 – Plenty of people love and are enthralled by trucks at an early age. Think of the excitement of a child running to the window in the

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Carriers should consider forming a committee to focus on recruiting the next generation of drivers

April 18, 2023 – With the great resignation and the majority of the truck driver population aging toward retirement, attracting young drivers needs to be one of a carrier’s top

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Next Generation in Trucking expanding driver training for high schoolers

March 23, 2023 – The Next Generation in Trucking Association is using a recently awarded grant to expand a driver training program for high schoolers beyond its California roots.  Co-founder

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Truckers preview next-generation electric big rigs at Port of Stockton

March 23, 2024 – Parked on the Port of Stockton grounds Thursday were two black and white Nikola zero emission semi-trucks that were being shown to truck driver fleets. Nikola

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Viewpoint: Worker Shortage Prompts Vocational Branding

​The U.S. is battling its biggest worker shortage in 80 years. In the first quarter of 2022, analysts at financial services company Goldman Sachs said there were 4.6 million more jobs than

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Using Tech to Recruit THE NEXT GENERATION

March 12, 2023 – With the new need to attract new employees to careers in trucking, leets can use an array of technologies to bolster recuiting and retain more of

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Next Generation in Trucking receives $127,760 grant

March 7, 2023 – An organization introducing truck driving as a career option to high school students recently received a grant from the philanthropic arm of a major air brake

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Promoting Careers in Trucking

March 2023 – One of our goals at the Next Generation in Trucking Association is to make it as easy as possible to promote trucking careers to students. In 2022

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The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers

October 28, 2022 – On the grounds of Williamsport High School in western Maryland, three 17-year-olds pile into the cab of a white Volvo truck, pens and pads in hand.

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Women in Trucking Association Announces Finalists for 2022 Influential Woman in Trucking Award

October 25, 2022 – The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) announced today four finalists for the 2022 Influential Woman in Trucking award, sponsored by Daimler Truck North America. This is

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High schools aim to teach next generation of truck drivers

September 20, 2022 – More high schools are exploring truck driving programs as the industry looks to recruit and train the next generation of drivers. Patterson High School in Patterson,

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‘Living the American dream’: Truckers honored in Tampa as industry seeks more drivers

September 16, 2022 – From labor shortages to higher fuel costs to supply chain issues, truck drivers have been in the thick of it. It’s a job that impacts nearly

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Experts weigh in on how to attract Gen Z to trucking as industry demographics shift

September 12, 2022 – At Melton Truck Lines (CCJ Top 250, No. 84) drivers can take their home time anywhere in the country. That was a big selling point for

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Effort to Recruit New Truck Drivers Moves Into High Schools

TT News (Transport Topics) – An all-volunteer effort is working with educators to help raise awareness of truck driving careers among students.

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California high school truck driver program addresses shortage annihilating supply chain

October 28, 2021 – Patterson High School in California introduced a supply chain and logistics program to senior students, offering truck driving certification upon graduation as well as other trade

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Teen truckers proposed to solve driver shortage

19 Oct, 2021 – A guest on “Morning in America” proposes a youth solution to the supply chain bottleneck… News Nation

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High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid a shortage of truck drivers

October 16, 2021 – When thinking about the trucking industry, the first thing that comes to mind about its drivers is that they tend to be older — industry experts

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California high school program aims to help nation’s growing truck driver shortage

October 13, 2021 – Patterson High School in California is introducing students to the possibility of a career in truck driving, an industry facing worker shortages impacting the nation’s supply

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California high school program aims to help nation’s growing truck driver shortage

13 Oct, 2021 – Patterson High School in California is introducing students to the possibility of a career in truck driving, an industry facing worker shortages impacting the nation’s Fox

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Teens Are Being Trained to Drive 18-Wheelers Amid Truck Driver Shortage

Inside Edition – Inside Edition visited student participants of Patterson High School who are participating in one of the first truck-driving programs.

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Teens Are Being Trained to Drive 18-Wheelers Amid Truck Driver Shortage

Hiring teenagers might help with the nationwide truck driver shortage, but you still don’t generally see them behind the wheel of a big rig. Now that’s changing. Inside Edition spoke to a California 17-year-old,

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High school teacher works to prepare the next generation of truck drivers

September 29, 2021 – Javier Diaz went down the wrong path early in life. He used drugs, was involved in gang activity and got into trouble at school — he

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Growing numbers of teens see trucking as attractive career

August 20, 2021 – Trucking’s age-old problem has been just that — the age of its drivers.  The median age of a truck driver is 46, which is five years

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CA high school teacher becomes trucker for summer to raise money for students

Patterson High School teach Dave Dein discisses his efforts to raise money for his students by trucking for summer amid driver shortage. Foxnews

Trucking association launches CDL training programs

July 14, 2021 – The Next Generation in Trucking Association (NGT) is partnering with high schools and community colleges across the country to launch truck driver and technician training programs,

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New association aims to build pipeline of truck drivers, technicians

July 20, 2021 – The driver and technician shortage has been at the forefront of trucking discourse for years, ranking as the top industry concern since 2017. Though quick, immediate

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Non-Profit Aims to Train Next-Gen Truck Drivers, Techs

July 14, 2021 – A recently launched non-profit, the Next Generation in Trucking Association, has partnered with schools in Kentucky, Wisconsin and California, to provide commercial driver’s license and diesel

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Organization forms to recruit next generation to trucking

A new organization has one goal in mind: convince young people to join the trucking industry.  The Next Generation in Trucking Association, recently announced new school partnerships to provide CDL driver

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Next Generation in Trucking Association partners with schools to train diesel techs, truck drivers

July 14, 2021 – A recently launched non-profit, The Next Generation in Trucking Association, announced new school partnerships to provide CDL driver and diesel technician programs for young adults in

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DRIVE-Safe Act proponents call for greater trust in trained younger drivers

CCJ Daily Report – Legislation proposes two-step apprenticeship and hundreds of hours of training on trucks equipped with latest safety technology.

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DRIVE-Safe Act proponents call for greater trust in trained younger drivers

June 3, 2021 – Talks of labor shortages and truck driver safety are common themes at industry conferences, in newsletters, editorials and even watercooler conversations — with good reason.  But

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Trucking association launches CDL training programs

CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly – Nonprofit group partners with high schools and community colleges to train the next generation of truck drivers and technicians.

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The newly formed Next Generation in Trucking Association establishes high school programs to meet this huge need.

Only six high schools in the U.S. offer CDL driver programs. One of those can be found at Patterson High School in Patterson, California. The program, which was created in