The School District of Lee County has partnered with FleetForce Truck Driver Training to launch a new CDL training program that will serve as a pipeline for aspiring commercial truck drivers by providing them with essential training.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But it’s also aimed at meeting Southwest Florida’s growing workforce needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Demand in the industry is not the problem, it’s drivers,” said Jean D., president of Ablin Logistics Inc. “There’s certainly a driver shortage, especially qualified drivers. Moving everything from small partials to oversize, overweight shipments.”<\/p>\n
Florida is expected to require nearly 25% of the nation’s commercial truck drivers in the next decade. While the partnership with FleetForce is set to alleviate these issues, it’s also a crucial investment into the state’s economic future.<\/p>\n
“It’s a great partnership between a third-party vendor where the School District of Lee County can work on fulfilling a need that we desperately have all the way across here in Lee County, as well as throughout Southwest Florida for those who need a CDL driver’s license,”\u00a0said Edward Matthews, associate superintendent for adult, career, technical and alternative education for the School District of Lee County.<\/p>\n
The program offers hands-on training for Fort Myers Technical College students at LeeTran headquarters, equipping students with Class A, B and C licenses, which are essential for earning a CDL.<\/p>\n
“We have many students that are in the service industry, and will be able to hopefully transition over and get a CDL license to upscale their potential and get a better job,” said John Roszell, director of Fort Myers Technical College.<\/p>\n
Graduates of FleetForce programs enjoy competitive salaries, healthcare and retirement benefits, and pre-hire opportunities with employers before completing training.<\/p>\n
“This program definitely benefits businesses like ours, as well as the regional supply chain, and I think it’s a partnership that’s going to be great for the community,” said Jean.<\/p>\n
Plans are underway to expand the program to Cape Coral Technical College, broadening access for residents seeking career opportunities in the trucking industry.<\/p>\n
Classes are set to begin at Fort Myers Technical College, and students can enroll now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The School District of Lee County has partnered with FleetForce Truck Driver Training to launch a new CDL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,58408,58407,2675,58404,28,58406,7931,356,58405,8993,10637,1521,659],"class_list":["post-115644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-technical-college","tag-cdl-driver","tag-driver","tag-fleetforce-truck-driver-training","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers-technical-college","tag-healthcare","tag-lee-county","tag-leetran-headquarters","tag-occupational-safety-and-health","tag-school-district-of-lee-county","tag-southwest-florida","tag-truck-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}