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Scam alert
Kenneth E. Whittington, Vice President, Career Path Training Corp., passes along this scam alert: The Jacksonville school has had scammer calls to 4 active enrolled students over the weekend and today. All 4 victims are staying at the Motel and the scammers … Continue reading
Texas license applicants must be residents
The Texas Motor Transport Association has called our attention to the fact that beginning Monday, Apr. 2, 2012, the Texas Department of Public Safety will implement procedures to verify that individuals applying for a Texas driver’s license, commercial driver’s license … Continue reading
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Tagged commercial driver's license, commercial vehicle, truck driving
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Spring conference report
John Rojas has been attending the 2012 National Association of Publicly Funded Truck Driving Schools Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. He reports: The NAPFTDS Spring conference was a great success. There was nearly 100 partisipants from all over the country. The schedule was … Continue reading
Scam alert
Mark Brown from Central Tech in Drumright, OK talked to a gentleman named Wayne Bishop who said he was a recruiter for Crete Carrier. Mark talked to Crete and they said he was not with them at all. He did … Continue reading
CSA update
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced planned improvements to the Carrier Safety Measurement System (SMS) which was implemented in December 2010 as part of FMCSA’s broader Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program. Motor carriers and those in law enforcement can … Continue reading
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Training program awarded grant
Congratulations to Transportation Training Services and director John Rojas at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. The program has been awarded a grant of $750,000 …more
Scam alert!
Mike White from Wiregrass Georgia Technical College in Valdosta, Georgia, issues this scam alert: A student got a call from a man who said he represented Willis Shaw Express. For $400 he would put the student in to an orientation … Continue reading
Mandatory training standards
Mandatory training standards appear to be a dead issue for the forseeable future. The National Association of Publicly Funded Truck Driving Schools reports that: the long awaited final ruling on entry-level driver training by FMCSA has been “removed from the … Continue reading
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Tagged commercial driver's license, federal regulations, training
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U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking
Landline magazine reports that the Federal Motor Carrier Safey Administration recently made a trip to Mexico to drum up business for the U.S.-Mexico cross-border pilot program. Apparently not very many Mexican carriers are participating in the program, and if this … Continue reading
