{"id":18064,"date":"2021-12-09T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18064"},"modified":"2021-12-09T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:53:03","slug":"truck-driving-school-offers-free-tuition-amid-driver-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/truck-driving-school-offers-free-tuition-amid-driver-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driving school offers free tuition amid driver shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Supply chain issues are highlighting the need for truck drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reynaldo Saez is close to completing his training at FleetForce<\/a> Truck Driving School in Winter Haven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRight now, with the opportunities in the trucking industry and the money that can be made, I figured this is the best time,\u201d said Saez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best part is he didn\u2019t have to pay a dime. Trucking companies are in desperate need of drivers they launched a program so aspiring truck drivers don’t have to pay for driving school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerica needs 1.1 million truck drivers over the next 10 years and Florida needs about 25% of that number,\u201d said Tra Williams, President of FleetForce Truck Driving School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams is hoping FleetForce can address the dire need. Tuition at his school is more than $6,000. Now students can train at no cost and are guaranteed to have a job after they graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost of the employers who recruit from within our ranks are offering sign-on bonuses. They have very robust healthcare plans, very robust retirement plans,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the truck driver shortage has been an issue way before the pandemic. More than 1,000 truckers in the U.S. retire every single week. At FleetForce they are working on recruiting female drivers to replace the ones leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarriers are very excited about hiring females. They\u2019re cheaper to insure, they cause fewer accidents. And we hope to allow females to realize that this is an industry for them as well,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supply chain issues are highlighting the need for truck drivers. Reynaldo Saez is close to completing his training at FleetForce Truck Driving School in Winter Haven. \u201cRight now, with the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1930],"class_list":["post-18064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-truck-driving-school-offers-free-tuition-amid-driver-shortage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}