{"id":228597,"date":"2026-03-20T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:18:08","slug":"orange-cove-celebrating-first-commercial-truck-driving-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228597\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Cove celebrating first commercial truck driving school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ORANGE COVE, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The city of Orange Cove is celebrating the grand opening of its first commercial truck driving school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Eleven people have already started classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two-month long program is designed to provide residents with high-demand vocational training and a direct pathway to stable, high-paying careers in the transportation industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The school is located in the old Sunkist building in Orange Cove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was made possible with a $23 million grant from the US Department of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Our organization and our partners realized it was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring what this region needs, which is high-quality training for both our employer partners and for our job seekers and community partners,&#8221; says Chris Zeitz, Vice President of Fresno County Workforce Development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Classes for the two-month course can accommodate up to 15 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">If you&#8217;re interested in a career in truck driving and would like to learn more about the school, just call the city of Orange Cove.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COVE, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The city of Orange Cove is celebrating the grand opening of its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[103843,103842,3606,112,114,113,61158,42736,294],"class_list":["post-228597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-103843","tag-cdl-courses","tag-drivers","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-new-school","tag-orange-cove","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}