Long-Awaited Federal Trucker Training Standards Face Two-Year Delay

Jan 20, 2020 at 09:20 AM CST
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Shortly before the end of the year, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that implementation of a set of standardized rules for entry-level training for commercial truck drivers, expected to take effect next month, will be delayed until 2022.(1) "This is a setback for the whole industry," says John Kearney, CEO, Advanced Training Systems LLC. Kearney, whose company is a leading designer and manufacturer of virtual simulators for driver training, among other applications. He goes on to add, "Trucking is facing both a declining safety record—over a ten-year period there was a 12 percent increase in the yearly number of people killed in large-truck crashes(2)—as well as an increasingly drastic driver shortage.(3) We are in need of efficient standards for entry-level truck driver training, and we need the government's help to do it."

Jan 20, 2020 at 09:20 AM CST

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Shortly before the end of the year, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that implementation of a set of standardized rules for entry-level training for commercial truck drivers, expected to take effect next month, will be delayed until 2022.(1) "This is a setback for the whole industry," says John Kearney, CEO, Advanced Training Systems LLC. Kearney, whose company is a leading designer and manufacturer of virtual simulators for driver training, among other applications. He goes on to add, "Trucking is facing both a declining safety record—over a ten-year period there was a 12 percent increase in the yearly number of people killed in large-truck crashes(2)—as well as an increasingly drastic driver shortage.(3) We are in need of efficient standards for entry-level truck driver training, and we need the government's help to do it."