DOT provides $118.8M in grants to bolster safety, training

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration grants will go to state and local partners to reduce crashes through ...
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Ohio Establishes $3 Million Tax Credit Program for CDL Training

Ohio is offering a new $3 million tax credit program to help companies offset costs for providing commercial driver license training to their employees. “Ohio is a state that makes things, and ...
Transport Topics

Community Colleges in Four States Enhance CDL Training

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Efforts to get more truck drivers on the road are taking place in several states with new community commercial driver license training ...
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Next-gen drivers, educators have new high-school CDL training tool

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 ...
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What It Takes To Become A Trucker: Tests, Training, And More

According to a report by the American Transport Research Institute (PDF), more than 3.5 million people were working as truck drivers in America in 2024. A new stream of drivers is consistently ...
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CDL school born out of need

Sep. 26—Paul Heidel, owner of Heidel Trucking Inc., was fed up with having unqualified applicants applying to be truck drivers. So, he started Central Plains CDL to train people seeking a commercial ...
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FMCSA pins 'CDL mills' problem on self-certification: Are owner-ops to blame?

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration boss Derek Barrs recently announced a major change to the very logic behind lots of important trucking regulation: Self-certification for regulated service ...