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High Schoolers now have Trucking Class. We recently sat down and interviewed a teacher from Patterson High School in Patterson California. Along with David Dein, Teacher, Instructor and former Trucker himself, he was joined by Lindsey Trent, President of the Next Generation In Trucking Association.
Mentor to Trucking. Back in the day when a man could teach his grandson or his own child how to drive a tractor trailer, he could also help him get a job driving for a living. But today it is allot different. Insurance companies rule the industry and dictate who can drive. Having a mentor was almost a thing of the past until now. Patterson High School is changing the way boys and girls at the senior level are getting started In the trucking industry. They now have a class that teaches everything about being a trucker.
They teach all things from road hazards to all safety aspects. of the industry, they even teach CB language. Thats right, these kids know what “Hammer down, Smokey, Chicken house and Yard Stick mean. Dein is teaching these kids how to be a man or a woman that navigates safely and productively.
Dein told us the most important thing to him is that these kids are pursuing this career because its “what they want to do”. He explained how, money will come to the ones that are in it for the lifestyle and not the money itself. Dein seemed to have great heart in wanting his students to succeed in the industry that he himself fell in love with years ago. HIGH SCHOOLERS NOW HAVE TRUCKING CLASS.
Tune in and hear this intriguing interview with Dein and Trent. Lindsey also shares that great passion for these youngsters and has a no quit attitude when it comes to promoting the future of these kids and the industry itself. We will be checking in to see where this new approach to helping grow the ever growing “driver shortage in America”. This is our opinion has a great chance of being a great solution to this huge problem.
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