CCBC To Get More Money To Train Veterans To Get Commercial Drivers’ Licenses

WASHINGTON (WJZ) — The Community College of Baltimore County’s Transportation Training Center programme volition grow from 18 to 28 students, acknowledgment to astir $124,000 successful national funding, according to a connection from Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s bureau Friday.

The wealth volition assistance students who are veterans bid to get their Commercial Driver’s License, and the programme guarantees occupation placements with proscription companies crossed Maryland erstwhile the students finish.

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The funding, which Van Hollen, Sen. Ben Cardin and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger each helped secure, comes from the Fiscal Year ’21 Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training Grant Program, according to the statement. Established by Congress successful 2005, the programme expands civilian CDL grooming for work members to trim the severity and fig of commercialized centrifugal conveyance accidents and provides CMV grooming to work members and their spouses.

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“Truck driving is fig 1 retired of the apical 20 family-sustaining wage occupations,” CCBC President Sandra Kurtinitis said successful the statement. “We are highly grateful for this national backing which allows america to grow our CDL program, bridging the spread betwixt manufacture needs and the trained workers to capable them.”

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CBS Baltimore Staff