Global Perspectives February, 2021
Courtesy CNBC, January 26, 2021Start-up tackling decarbonization of trucking sector gets funding from Amazon climate fund, Grantham Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is backing a recently launched company focused on decarbonizing the transportation sector as the world rushes toward a greener future.Start-up Infinium...
Overdrive January, 2021 – Schools and Simulators Offer Solution to Looming Truck Driver Shortage
By John Kearney Increasingly, job-seekers hoping to become professional truck drivers are turning toward community colleges, vocational schools, and high schools that offer commercial driver’s license (CDL) training. A growing number of these schools, often with financial support from the trucking industry, are...
News From The Road January, 2021
San Diego East County Magazine, December 18, 2020—Women faced with sudden job loss from the pandemic may consider going to truck driving school to repurpose their life and source of income. ECM interviewed CEO John Kearney of Advanced Training Systems via email for his insights and tips on pursuing a career in truck...
Training Wheels January, 2021
Federal pilot program would open long-distance trucking to 18-year-olds, from the Washington Post, December 31. 2020. A federal agency is proposing a pilot program to allow people as young as 18 to drive trucks across the country, an idea enthusiastically supported by trucking companies as a way to open the door to...
Global Perspectives January, 2021
Courtesy Bloomberg News, January 11, 2021Covid-19 Holds Up Chrome at Key Border for World’s No. 1 Source South African restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19 are snarling shipments of chrome from the world’s biggest supplier of the steel ingredient. Trucks have formed a 21-kilometer (13-mile) queue on either...
Overdrive December, 2020 – Better Training Needed for Hostlers
By John Kearney Ecommerce in the U.S., driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, is booming: by 2024 it’s expected that stay-at-home shopping sales will reach $1.2 trillion, nearly 19% of total retail volume. Supporting this burst of economic activity is an equally fast-growing coast-to-coast network of distribution centers....
News From The Road December, 2020
Go By Truck, November 18, 2020: Before commercial truckers get behind the wheel of a big rig on a public road, they’ve undergone hundreds of hours of training to earn their Commercial Driver’s License. St. Petersburg-headquartered company Advanced Training Systems aims to make that training process safer and smoother...
Training Wheels December, 2020
New Technology for drivers promotes safety, eases workflow management,, from Fleet Equipment, December 15, 2020. Truck driver safety and training solutions have grown astronomically this year. With truck drivers being more remote than ever due to the pandemic, an increased focus on safety came with it. Connected...
Global Perspectives December, 2020
Courtesy Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2020COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in the U.K. Tests Global Supply Network The COVID-19 vaccines that British citizens began receiving on December 9 had been sitting only days earlier in ultracold freezers across the English Channel. When the British government last Wednesday...
Overdrive November, 2020 – Amid Rampant Unemployment, Trucking Offers Women a Welcoming Hand
By John Kearney In a recent survey, a quarter of U.S. adults said they or someone in their household had been laid off or lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak. While the unemployment rate dropped from April’s record high of 15% to 6.9% in October, much of the drop was driven not by economic growth but by...
News From The Road November, 2020
Tampa Bay Business Journal, September 3, 2020: Before commercial truckers get behind the wheel of a big rig on a public road, they’ve undergone hundreds of hours of training to earn their Commercial Driver’s License. St. Petersburg-headquartered company Advanced Training Systems aims to make that training process...
Training Wheels November, 2020
Congress must take need for drivers as seriously as infrastructure, from American Trucker, November 3, 2020. Infrastructure has been front and center leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, though funding for new bridges, roads, and railways are only a few of the building blocks the transportation sector...
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