North Texas Job Corps Center > Roadway Partnership

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Partnership with Roadway in the works. (All photos provided by courtesy of Job Corps center operators under contract to the US Department of Labor.)

North Texas Job Corps Center is putting the finishing touches on a new partnership with Roadway, a national trucking firm, to provide CDL Advanced Truck Driver training. This advanced training program will be available for NTJCC students as well as other Job Corps students wishing to transfer to North Texas specifically for this program.

Under the partnership, Roadway will donate up to $150,000 worth of equipment, including tractors, trailers and other equipment, to the center and will provide two instructors. There will be 32 student openings in the program, and it will take approximately four months to complete training.

Roadway, which recently merged with Yellow Freight Company, has openings for 120 drivers with excellent wages, making this new program particularly attractive to North Texas students, according to Pete Calvo, vice president of Horizons Youth Services. Additionally, with this new partnership, NTJCC becomes the second Job Corps center in the country to offer this advanced training. The other center is Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center in Morganfield, Kentucky.

As part of ongoing efforts to enhance curriculum and career opportunities for students, NTJCC also is eliminating its landscaping program and negotiating with the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association to offer a union cement mason program at the center. The goal is to have this and the CDL Advanced Truck Driver programs up and running in September.