Truck Driving and Transportation Training Careers

Graduates of the Truck Driving and Transportation Training program have been able to find employment in many areas including:

• transportation sales
• log clerk
• instructor/trainer *
• terminal manager
• shipping foreperson
• freight agent
• receiving foreperson *
• freight broker
• traffic manager *
• shag driver
• spotter
• DOT officer *
• maintenance director
• truck driver

* Requires additional coursework

Placement

Graduate Job Placement: 97%
Starting Wages: $35,000 - $55,000 per year

Iowa Workforce Development forecasts more than 1,400 job openings each year for truck drivers (heavy and tractor trailer) through the year 2014.

Employers

• Gray Transportation Company - Waterloo, IA
• Hunt Transport - Omaha, NE
• Keim TS - Fort Dodge, IA
• Peterson Contractors, Inc. - Reinbeck, IA
• Trans AMTrucking - Olathe, KS
• Werner Enterprises - Omaha, NE
• Benton's Ready Mixed Concrete - Cedar Falls, IA
• Bar-Nunn Transportation - Granger, IA
• C.H, Wilson Trucking Company - Charles City, IA
• Green Products - Conrad, IA
• Hirshback Motor Lines - Sioux City, IA
• Inway Trans - Rockford, IL
• Midwest Trucking - Ankeny, IA
• Nurtiject - Hudson, IA
• PCI - Reinbeck, IA
• Zephyr Transport - Waterloo, IA