CAREER TRAINING RESOURCES

Helpful Information About Truck Driving Careers

Check out this selection of articles below to learn more about career choices and how to prepare for in-demand job opportunities.

  • graphic of red text that reads "semi-truck cooking" and blue text underneath with text that reads "how to get started!" and a red semi in the bottom right corner

    Semi Truck Cooking– How to Get Started

    Why Cook in your Truck?

    Truck drivers have long faced the problem of a living a “less than perfect” lifestyle when it comes to health, and who could blame them? After a 10-12 hour shift of driving sometimes drivers just want something quick and easy. Unfortunately, the words quick and easy are not usually followed by healthy. Fast food and […]

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    Rookie Truck Driver Mistakes

    Things to Avoid Your First Year Driving

    Entering trucking has the unique factor that it is not just a career change for most, but an entire lifestyle change. From the food you eat to where you rest your head at night, many jobs in the industry require a complete 180-degree turn from your life after obtaining your CDL. It is a life […]

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    Female Truck Driver Provides Advice for New Trainees

    Taheera Johnson Shares Her CDS CDL Training Experience

    Taheera Johnson began her Class A CDL training at CDS’ Fredericksburg Training Center in December 2019. Throughout her training, she experienced several hardships but continued to prevail. After completing her training in 2020, she wrote down her story to share with future truck driver trainees. Keep reading to learn more about her thoughts on CDL training […]

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    Truck Driver Shortage Grows Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

    Licensing Stops with DMV Closures

    The months of March and April 2020, the reality of COVID-19 gripped the United States along with the world. For the first time in history, all 50 States declared emergencies, and more than half the nation is living under some sort of stay-at-home order. While the world slowed down and almost seemed to come to […]

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    What Is the ELDT Mandate & What Does It Mean For You?

    An Overview of the ELDT Mandate

    Updated December 2021 The ELDT (Entry-Level Driver Training) mandate has been all over the news in the trucking industry lately. What is it? When will it take effect? And what does it mean for you? What is the ELDT? The ELDT Mandate is a set of new minimum requirements for entry-level driver training set by […]

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    Truck Drivers: The New Santa Claus

    Delivering Your Gifts in Time for the Holidays

    While most of the rest of the working world gets time off to spend the holidays with their family and friends, many truckers will be working extra-long hours. Right around Christmas time, Americans are frantically ordering and buying all of their gifts with the intention of them arriving in time for Christmas. Someone has to […]

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