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PA trade school looks to build driving course for CDL training

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:52:00 +0000

The Berks Career & Technology Center is planning to buy land in Bern Township, PA, that would allow it to start its own truck driver training program, according to a report in the Reading Eagle.

Dr. Robert E. Lees, BCTC executive director, said BCTC has been running a satellite trucking program at its West Campus in Bern Township, utilizing the licensed program of the Lehigh Career & Technical Institute in Schnecksville.

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Country singer gives huge boost to trucking’s image

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:18:00 +0000

Country singer Lindsay Lawler is helping pump up the industry’s image by highlighting positive truck driver stories twice a week on Renegade Radio Nashville, an internet-based radio show she hosts.

Lawler is the official spokesperson for the Truckload Carrier Assn.’s Highway Angel Program that heightens public awareness of professional truck drivers’ helpful, and often heroic, good deeds on the highways.

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Infographic shows ‘the real cost of trucking’

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:08:00 +0000

An “infographic” created by the Trucker’s Report and displayed by Easy Lift Equipment, manufacturer of ergonomic drum and roll handling equipment, is a dramatic representation of “The Real Cost of Trucking in the United States.”

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National Sleep Foundation poll explores transportation workers’ sleepiness

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:26:00 +0000

A significant number of transportation workers, including truck drivers, say that sleepiness has caused safety problems on the job, according to the National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) 2012 Sleep in America poll. It is the first poll to ask truck drivers and other transportation professionals — including pilots, train operators, bus, taxi and limo drivers — about their sleep habits and work performance.

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Tragic missing trucker case spawns Missing Truck Driver Alert Network

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:49:00 +0000

The successful, although tragic, location of a missing trucker utilizing social networking has resulted in the launch of the Missing Truck Driver Alert Network in the hopes of providing help to law enforcement and family members attempting to locate truck drivers who have gone missing.

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