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Trucking industry eager to attract younger drivers
Next Generation In Trucking creates two new industry awards
Trucking Cares Donates Record $200,000 in 2024
Giving Tuesday a time to contribute to those who aid truckers in need
Q&A: Next Gen’s Lindsey Trent on Younger Truck Drivers
Powell inspires students at FFA Convention
Fleets Explained: What are the trucking industry’s organizations?
Patterson trucking teacher named Teacher of the Year
NextGen Trucking to create Fitness Course
FMCSA Grants $3.5 Million for CDL Training at 27 Schools
Trucking Cares Foundation Donates $40,000 to Support Truck Driver Training
Trucking Cares Foundation Donates $40,000 to Support Truck Driver Training
Meet Our Student of the Month
We’re thrilled to announce that Ben Marshall from Nelson County ATC is our March CDL Student of the Month!
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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 will increasingly shift to a new generation of professional truck drivers. Transport Topics
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 utilizing the program’s golf cart. Truckers News
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 School accepted several donations from different agencies to support its new CDL program. WTHI-TV
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 morning to watch the garbage truck come by, or the joy on a child’s face when they do an arm
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 priorities. CCJ