Education

[Should drivers have to at least have highschool Diploma.]

Should drivers have to at least have highschool Diploma.

agree

 4 (80%)

disagree

 1 (20%)

Total Members Voted: 5

[americantrucker01]

I unfortuneately talk to a lot of driver's who cant keep up with the ever changing industry.Lack of education.

[Brett]

That's interesting. Things are indeed changing rapidly these days with new technologies in the trucks, new laws on the highways, and new tracking systems by the government like CSA 2010 http://www.bigrigdriving.com/comprehensive-safety-analysis-2010-csa2010. There's a lot of information available on the internet but it comes from a lot of different sources and can take a good amount of time to try to keep up with.

This might raise some alarms with drivers, but I wonder if some sort of mandatory schooling be put in place to help drivers track important changes in the industry. Maybe the government could come up with online computer-based training programs that need to be taken every so often (every two years maybe?) to show that drivers are aware of and understand the most current laws in the industry?

Things have never changed more quickly in the industry than they have in the past few years. It is indeed hard to keep up with.

[Sotrekker]

Hi,
I'm returning to the industry after a 13 year break, albeit the previous 20 years prior to the break where all done in Europe. While I think it's important that drivers are kept up to date on technical and legal advances in the industry I don't believe we have to try and turn truckers into road professors......or should that be road scholars?
Why not make any type of advanced training optional and let people decide if they want to take it.....then may be companies that want drivers trained to that standard will pay more?
Well, I guess that's how it would be in the perfect world.