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- A Day in the Life as a Delivery Propane Driver
- A Day in the Life of a Truck Driver – Oak Harbor Freight
- Career Pathways in Trucking
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- Happy Truck Driver Appreciation Week 2025
- Host your own community wide Touch-A-Truck Event
- How does a truck driver get paid and what are the benefits like?
- Lifestyles of a Truck Driver
- Next Generation in Trucking – Awareness Video
- Patterson High School Student Testimonials
- Real Faces of Alabama Trucking – Catherine Clements
- Real Faces of Alabama Trucking – Haley Pang
- Revolutionizing Trucking: Inside Patterson High’s Program Tackling the Driver Shortage
- Supply Chain & Logistics Pathway
- Technology in Trucking
- Trucking is an Essential Industry with Essential Workers
- What is the Supply Chain?
- What’s it like to be a Propane Truck Driver?
- Women’s Leadership in Trucking Panel – MATS 2025
Posts
- Builder materials distribution association kicks off three-day convention
- Riding the wave: Clarity on younger drivers helps steer trucking into the future
- Local Diesel Mechanic Honored with Prestigious Industry Award
- Investing in the Next Generation: How Employers and Schools Can Build a Real Early-Talent Pipeline
- Young Drivers: Rich Insights into Important Issues
- Women In Trucking Association Announces Finalists for 2025 Influential Woman in Trucking Award
- Where are we going to find the next generation of truckers?
- 🚛 CREATING CAREER PATHWAYS: Opening the Road for 18-Year-Old Drivers
- Building the Next Generation of Diesel Technicians with J&M Tank Lines
- PHS students raising funds for Wreaths Across America
- 🌟 Student of the Month – September 2025
- What declines in reading and math mean for the US workforce
- Next Generation in Trucking honors young rising stars in trucking
- Building the Next Generation of Trucking Leaders Through Collaboration
- Blue-collar work is attracting younger generations
- Next Generation in Trucking announces Grand Champions and 56 finalists of NEXT Top Talent Award recognizing and celebrating professional drivers and diesel techs under the age of 30
- Checking Under the Hood: How’s Your Driver Appreciation?
- CH Robinson honors drivers and carriers during Truck Driver Appreciation Week
- Growing the Next Generation of Supply Chain Leaders: A Conversation with Dr. Gina Smith
- How Trucking Could Solve Gen Z’s Unemployment Crisis
- Gen Z in Trucking: Addison’s Journey from “No Experience” to Industry Leader
- A Career in Truck Driving: CDL Education and Professional Driving
- NAFCD + NBMDA Annual Convention gives back to the industry
- OOIDA says industry needs to improve for current, future truck drivers
- 🚛 Introducing the NEXT Top Talent Award: Celebrating the Future of Trucking
- August Student of the Month – Anthony Simms
- Failing Forward: How Nicole Ward is Breaking Barriers and Rebuilding Trucking Through AAWTA
- Shaping Futures Through Manufacturing and Mentorship: A Conversation with Bryan Boyd from Hendrickson
- Next Generation in Trucking launches NEXT Top Talent Award
- 🚛 Introducing the NEXT Top Talent Award: Celebrating the Future of Trucking
- How to hire and hold on to the next generation
- Investing in the Future of Trucking: Garner Trucking’s Mission Beyond the Cab
- The Teacher Becomes the Student
- Driving the Future of Trucking: A Conversation with Melanie Simard of ISAAC Instruments
- Next Gen Trucking’s ‘Train the Trainer’ provides strategies for engaging younger generation
- Empowering the Next Generation of Instructors
- Rayden Peters, June 2025 Student of the Month
- OOIDA: Truck driver retention problem caused by low pay, working conditions
- Downtime: The Hidden Obstacle Facing New-Age Truckers
- Replicating the Mission
- 🎉 NGT Student of the Month – May 2025: Amelia Morgan Connell High School | Connell, WA
- Celebrating the Companies Shaping Trucking’s Future
- Saving the trucking workforce pipeline
- It Takes a Village
- Christenson Transportation Receives Prestigious Career Catalyst Award from Next Generation in Trucking Association
- Meet the fleets shaping the future generation; driver on visa charged; SHIPS Act | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?
- Bridging the gap: How the trucking industry can attract Gen Z amidst labor challenges
- Averitt recognized with 2025 Career Catalyst Award
- NGT honors 16 fleets with Career Catalyst Awards for efforts to bring younger generation into the industry
- KAG claims 2025 Career Catalyst award
- 16 trucking companies recognized for efforts to reach younger generation
- Next Generation in Trucking honors 16 fleets with Career Catalyst Awards
- 16 Trucking Fleets Honored for Paving Career Paths for the Next Generation
- Student Driver of the Month – April 2025
- Nominations Now Open for the 2025 Transition Trucking: Driving for Excellence Award
- Next Gen Trucking Brings the Next Generation to MATS
- Train the Trainer – Preparing the Next Generation of Instructors and Drivers
- CTE Continues to Gain Traction
- We’re thrilled to announce that Ben Marshall from Nelson County ATC is our March CDL Student of the Month!
- Investing in the Future: The ROI of Early Talent Development
- From High School to the Driver’s Seat: How One Graduate Fast-Tracked His Future with a CDL
- From Student to Successful Entrepreneur
- Trucking industry eager to attract younger drivers
- Next Generation In Trucking creates two new industry awards
- Trucking Cares Donates Record $200,000 in 2024
- Stories of Impact and Perseverance: Announcing Our Student of the Month Series
- 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
- Adding Truck Driving Training to High School Career Programs
- The catch-22 of having young truck drivers
- Building the Next Generation of Professional Truck Drivers
- Trucking Announcements: Erb receives purpose award, Cummins promotes Trueblood
- High School trucking program instructor up for big award
- High school trucking program instructor Dave Dein advances toward Teacher of the Year honors
- Program offering free CDL training, high school students outreach to tackle truck driver shortage
- High School Teacher Honored for Truck-Driving Curriculum
- Trucking instructor honored as California Teacher of the Year by ACTE
- High Schools driving students to trucking with training classes
- Recruiting Leaders Say Demand for Truck Drivers Still Strong
- High school truck driving course teaches students the ways of the road
- Next Generation in Trucking Foundation launches CDL curriculum companion
- Next Generation in Trucking Foundation expands driver training opportunities
- Next Generation in Trucking Foundation Launches CDL Curriculum Companion
- Next-gen drivers, educators have new high-school CDL training tool
- Next Generation in Trucking’s New Curriculum Support High School CDL Programs
- Carriers offer food, prizes, apparel and more during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
- Michigan School Finds Success Training Student Truckers
- Women of Trucking Advisory Board makes suggestions for driver recruitment and retention
- The Truckers of Tomorrow
- Love’s gift helps school CDL program teach about distracted/impaired driving
- Parke Heritage High School’s new CDL program gets more equipment, students share their experience
- Planting the Seed: Introducing Children to Trucking
- Carriers should consider forming a committee to focus on recruiting the next generation of drivers
- Next Generation in Trucking expanding driver training for high schoolers
- Truckers preview next-generation electric big rigs at Port of Stockton
- Viewpoint: Worker Shortage Prompts Vocational Branding
- Using Tech to Recruit THE NEXT GENERATION
- Next Generation in Trucking receives $127,760 grant
- Promoting Careers in Trucking
- The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers
- Women in Trucking Association Announces Finalists for 2022 Influential Woman in Trucking Award
- High schools aim to teach next generation of truck drivers
- ‘Living the American dream’: Truckers honored in Tampa as industry seeks more drivers
- Experts weigh in on how to attract Gen Z to trucking as industry demographics shift
- Effort to Recruit New Truck Drivers Moves Into High Schools
- California high school truck driver program addresses shortage annihilating supply chain
- Teen truckers proposed to solve driver shortage
- High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid a shortage of truck drivers
- California high school program aims to help nation’s growing truck driver shortage
- California high school program aims to help nation’s growing truck driver shortage
- Teens Are Being Trained to Drive 18-Wheelers Amid Truck Driver Shortage
- Teens Are Being Trained to Drive 18-Wheelers Amid Truck Driver Shortage
- High school teacher works to prepare the next generation of truck drivers
- Growing numbers of teens see trucking as attractive career
- CA high school teacher becomes trucker for summer to raise money for students
- Trucking association launches CDL training programs
- New association aims to build pipeline of truck drivers, technicians
- Non-Profit Aims to Train Next-Gen Truck Drivers, Techs
- Organization forms to recruit next generation to trucking
- Next Generation in Trucking Association partners with schools to train diesel techs, truck drivers
- DRIVE-Safe Act proponents call for greater trust in trained younger drivers
- DRIVE-Safe Act proponents call for greater trust in trained younger drivers
- Trucking association launches CDL training programs
- The newly formed Next Generation in Trucking Association establishes high school programs to meet this huge need.