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“Part of the issue our industry is facing is that too many people decided to pursue trucking strictly for the money, and that lack of passion is having a negative effect on our image and reputation," says Dave Dein, CDL coordinator at Patterson High School in California.

Florida educators broke ground on a new commercial driver license training academy to alleviate a shortage not only in the state but also in the Southeastern region of the country.

The driver shortage and turnover are top concerns within the trucking industry, and insiders contend schools and training programs play a critical role in attracting new entrants.

Federal trucking regulators are proposing to speed up the process for obtaining a commercial driver license by removing a number of regulatory restrictions.

Officials at Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania announced this month they are holding open enrollment for a program aimed at showing young people the benefits of CDL certification.

Eastern Iowa Community Colleges has received more than $875,000 in grants to expand its truck driving/commercial truck driving program.

A $236,000 rural economic development grant is helping a western Maryland public two-year community college expand its commercial driver license truck driving training program.

Ohio is offering a new $3 million tax credit program to help companies offset costs for providing commercial driver license training to their employees.

A new Oklahoma law making it easier for written commercial driver license tests to be administered took effect Nov. 1 to help offset the truck driver shortage.

With Iowa projected to need more than 10,000 truckers yearly through 2030, Gov. Kim Reynolds  again has taken steps to get more drivers behind the wheel.