SCCCD Training Institute offering free truck driving training, accepting applications now

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Darrell Moton meticulously works down a database of information checks.

With an teacher implicit his shoulder, he's practicing what it volition consciousness similar erstwhile helium goes to trial astatine the DMV.

He was a motortruck operator successful the past, but near the manufacture to enactment astatine a warehouse.

"It's been a agelong clip since I drove, and truthful I ever wanted to get backmost successful the people but being that the schools are truthful costly to get in," Moton said. "That's the main happening that holds astir radical back."

As a hubby and begetter of six, it wasn't the close clip to marque a vocation displacement until helium heard astir the motortruck driving programme done the State Center Community College District's Training Institute.

"We developed this programme to get radical their commercialized driver's licence and get them connected the road, contributing to the section system and changing people's lives by getting them a caller career," Senior Program Specialist Daniel Griffith said.

Griffith says this was made imaginable acknowledgment to a concern with Fresno County's Economic Development Corporation and OK Produce.

The EDC received a assistance done the "Good Jobs Challenge."

It makes information wholly escaped for students similar Moton.

OK Produce allows students to usage their trucks for grooming connected information checks and skills testing, specified arsenic backing up.

In arsenic small arsenic 8 weeks, the programme tin enactment radical connected a way to a caller career.

"Some radical don't person the clip oregon immoderate to spell get their two-year grade oregon transportation to a university, truthful we connection options for radical similar that that are truly conscionable trying to get their ft successful the doorway with a caller occupation somewhere," Griffith said.

For radical similar Moton, it's giving him the accidental to get backmost into a vocation helium enjoys.

"I cognize I'll marque much wealth than being successful the warehouse and past -- past I'm doing what I emotion to do, truthful it makes it easier to bash thing that you privation to bash than to bash thing that you person to do," Moton said.

The Training Institute is accepting applications for the adjacent cohort.

It begins successful December.

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