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May 29, 2017

TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE * USA: CDL School spanish / english

* Pennsylvania - Bilingual truck-driving school opens at Tec Centro


--- A truck-driving school geared toward both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking adults is opening at Tec Centro in Lancaster city today... CDL Ed. training is offering a nine-week course, taught in both languages, to prepare adults to pass their commercial driver’s license exam... The school’s primary goal is to serve Hispanic adults who’d like a career as a truck driver but don’t pursue it because they lack confidence in their English-language speaking ability. (Tec Centro is an initiative of the Spanish American Civic Association that seeks to remove language and cultural barriers to careers) ... The owner of the five-employee school is Sobrino’s father, Jose, who owned and operated Reading-based Smart Truck Training for many years. He has 25 years of experience as a truck driver and teacher... 
(Image) -- Lancaster, PA. USA - Lancaster On Line, by TIM MEKEEL - May 25, 2017

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Jun 14, 2010

DRIVERS' SHORTAGE * USA - Wanted: 400,000 truck drivers

Can't find a job? Maybe it's time to take your search on the road



New York,NY,USA -CNNMoney, by Chris Isidore -June 9, 2010: ... The U.S. trucking industry will need to hire about 200,000 drivers by the end of this year, and will need to add another 200,000 by the end of 2011, according to the state of logistics report from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals... A number of factors will feed into this need for drivers, including retirements, tougher safety regulations designed to get drivers with bad records off the road and the need to replace drivers who were laid-off during the recession, according to the report. Overall the industry lost almost 150,000 driving jobs since the start of 2008... Rosalyn Wilson the author of the report sponsored by Penske Logistics, said that even with continued high unemployment, motor carriers are going to face a challenge finding drivers needed over the next year and half... The median pay for a trucker stood at $37,730 in May of 2009, and Wilson said that wage probably fell in the last year as miles driven were reduced. But more miles and the driver shortage are likely to increase wages in the years ahead, she said... But Rosalyn said, that broader demographic factors will make driver shortages an issue for years to come, regardless of the strength of the economy. About one in six are age 55 or above... (Video from YouTube, by CREnglandTrucking —8 Sept 2008: CR England's Premier Truck Driving School provides truck driver training to individuals seeking to be professional Class A CDL drivers. Our top notch staff will work with you to make you the safest driver on the road. All graduates are guaranteed a job upon completion of our program)


* Arizona - Demand is High for Qualified Truck Drivers

Phoenix,AZ,USA -My Fox Phoenix -16 Jun 2010: -- It may not be the most glamorous job out there, but the trucking industry is looking to hire hundreds of thousands of people... For men and women who find themselves out of work, the trucking business may be just what they need to get back into the workforce... Right now there is a huge demand for qualified and licensed drivers, and trucking schools in the valley are filling up with new students... The trucking industry needs to hire about 200,000 drivers by the end of this year. The high demand is leading more people in Arizona to pursue a job on the road... Most students will have guaranteed jobs after 180 hours of instruction, split between the classroom and at the wheel of the 70-foot-long tractor-trailers... It costs between $3,500 and $5,000 to get a commercial driver's license there... In the next 15 years, the trucking industry is estimated to need 1 million new drivers...

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Aug 7, 2009

Truck Driving School * USA - Enrollment Up at

Layoffs are just one of the reasons truck driving schools are seeing enrollment skyrocket

Dunbar,W.VA,USA -WSAZ, by Carrie Cline -Aug 6, 2009: -- It’s a chance to experience the open road, travel the country and get paid well all at the same time. The truck driving industry is desperate to add workers, just as many others are cutting jobs... David Belcher was one of the casualties of a recent layoff. Now, the 48-year-old coal miner is shifting into a new gear... Harold Travis is one of the instructors at the PIA Truck Driving School in Dunbar. He drove a truck for 38 years and logged nearly three million miles through every state in the country... The PIA trucking school charges a little more than $4,000 for tuition. The four-week course earns students their CDL license. State funding and financial aid in West Virginia is increasing, making it easier for students to pay for the truck driving school... Once students have their licenses Travis says they are guaranteed a decent salary... (SEE VIDEO)

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Mar 25, 2009

TRUCKING SCHOOLS * USA - Driven to try for a new job on the road

The unemployed are clamoring for a chance at motoring through a desert sunrise for $40,000 a year... But while workers seek refuge in the cab of a Peterbilt, the trucking industry is feeling its own pinch. More than 3,000 trucking companies with five or more drivers tanked in 2008

Raleigh,NC,USA -The Associated Press/The Trucker, by JOSH SHAFFER -25 March 2009: -- Every student at Carolina Trucking Academy was either laid-off or fed-up, so they lined up to take nerve-racking turns driving an 18-wheeler in reverse — all betting that life as a trucker will make a sweet Plan B... The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that the idea of big-rig travel has pushed enrollment up 30 percent at some North Carolina trucking schools, even as driver jobs dwindle. The unemployed are clamoring for a chance at motoring through a desert sunrise for $40,000 a year... Check the students at Charlie Gray’s academy in south Raleigh and there’s not one stereotypical chaw-chomper in the bunch: ... They all imagine a new life viewed through the windshield of a 75-foot rig...

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Jun 25, 2007

Truck driving * Canada - School under investigation

A British Columbia driving school is under investigation for allegedly helping truckers veer around the law to get their licences faster.

Vancouver,BC,USA -The Globe and Mail, by ARMINA LIGAYA -June 23, 2007: -- South West Driving Academy Ltd. allegedly offered forged trucking licence documents to its students, and helped them age the papers to look authentic, said Doug McClelland of the Insurance Corp. of British Columbia... About 160 immigrants from India have allegedly obtained truck driver's licences using fake papers that state they have the mandatory three years of experience, according to the warrant application... "There's a lot of pressure right now for people to get into the industry quickly," Mr. McClelland said. "Unfortunately people go look for short cuts, or there are unscrupulous people who try to sell short cuts"...

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