Illinois Pork offers CDL Scholarship Program to help address driver shortage – Brownfield Ag News

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Illinois Pork affords CDL Scholarship Program to assist handle driver scarcity

The Illinois Pork Producers Affiliation is taking steps to handle the scarcity of truck drivers within the pork trade.

Mike Borgic, director of membership says they’re providing $1,000 scholarships for candidates to resume or acquire their Business Driver’s License in Illinois.  “We are attempting our greatest to assist our producers get people who find themselves out there to drive vans for them,” he says.  “That’s one of many massive issues we’ve been listening to about from our producers is that they’ve a tough time getting vans and once they do get vans, they’ve a tough time getting a driver.  This could possibly be for transferring livestock or transferring feed.”

He tells Brownfield entry-level drivers are required to finish a program and behind-the-wheel instruction previous to taking the CDL check. 

And to qualify for the scholarship, Borgic says candidates should both be Transportation High quality Assurance licensed or comply with take the category.  “TQA is ran by the Nationwide Pork Board and is required by most processors so as to ship pigs to them,” he says. 

For extra data on the scholarship click on HERE.

AUDIO: Mike Borgic, Illinois Pork Producers Affiliation