United States industry needs over 400,000 new safe truck drivers per year.
Recently, the Department of Transportation enacted regulations reducing the
number of hours drivers can be behind the wheel and requiring mandated training
for new and experienced drivers. The Center for Transportation Safety was
founded to train and prepare professional drivers to meet these needs.
Too often, drivers do not get the training they need to meet the demands of
their profession. Untrained and poorly trained drivers are not only unsafe, but
they also "wash-out" quicker and more often than trained and prepared drivers.
The Center for Transportation Safety believes that each corporation brings
different driver training needs. We were founded to capitalize on the explosive
need for focused driver training in the corporate market. This market includes
professional heavy vehicle commercial drivers; corporate van and light vehicle
drivers; sales/delivery staff with company cars, vans, and straight trucks; and
law enforcement. We focus on firms that use vehicles as "necessary evils" in
their business, whether that business is energy service, package delivery,
moving and storage, beverage or food distribution, or any other that sells a
product or service requiring vehicles for the delivery. Corporate vehicles are
their single largest manageable corporate risk.
The Center for Transportation Safety offers a full curriculum for the new
driver up through the "million mile" driver. Each course is specific to the
needs of the driver's current professional status. Our Novice CDL course takes
a willing and able new employee through the process of receiving his or her CDL
and beginning life as a safe professional driver. Our 10-hour, 30-hour, and
60-hour courses hone the skills of newer to experienced drivers, helping them
to break bad habits and getting them back on the safe road. We also offer
safety meeting and professional course topics like Mountain Driving and Winter
Driving to help round out driver skills.
Statistics have shown time and time again that new drivers are susceptible to
smaller, nuisance-type accidents (turning too tight, rolling over curbs/signs,
etc.). But it is the million mile driver with 5 - 7 years of experience who is
at the greatest risk for large, rollover-type serious accidents due to
inattention and complacency. The Center for Transportation Safety has courses
for your whole spectrum of drivers.
Courses to consider: