Industry Outlook

• The trucking industry expects a driver shortage of 400,000 drivers in 2011 and 2012 as per FTR Associates.
• Driver wages are increasing and trucking companies are offering more and better benefits to attract and keep good drivers.

• The transportation industry is among one of the largest industries in the United States.  It is the second largest employer in America, second only to agriculture.
• Improvements in equipment have greatly reduced the need for truck drivers to be “big and strong” in order to operate a heavy truck.  The industry needs bright, energetic, and professionally trained men and women who have developed a strong desire to succeed.

• A career as a professional tractor-trailer driver can offer security and financial rewards to those men and women who have the skills and desire to be successful.

Learning how to drive a truck can be just the beginning of a promising and exciting career.  The truck driving industry has many job opportunities, you may become a professional truck driver, dispatcher, manager, enter into the field of logistics or become a trainer and have the chance to train future truck drivers.  The prospects for a promising and exciting career in professional truck driving have never been better!

If you are at least 21 years old you, have a good driving record, and can pass the DOT requirements we can help you become an over-the-road driver.  Join us as a student and experience for yourself the satisfaction of learning what it takes to keep America on the move.