Wor-Wic Community offering CDL training course

SALISBURY, Md. – For more than two decades, Wor-Wic Community College has been educating truck drivers, providing them with cutting-edge equipment and simulators to achieve their professional aspirations.

Instructor Marquis Waters, explaining how a truck like this works on the roads. “It’s pretty much the biggest vehicle on the road, most people tend to look out for you, but you still have to keep in mind all the other drivers on the road.”

Maryland and the U.S. are experiencing a driver shortage, as per the Maryland Department of Labor, yet Wor-Wic is contributing to alleviating this issue with its Commercial Driving License program. Dean Robinson is a student and said this feels like a second chance.

“I feel really good, I feel confident, at first, since getting started, I’ve learned a lot, been in the course for about 5-6 weeks now.” One of his classmates, Fulton Holland, is working through the same course. He decided the manual and automatic truck track was a license that offered more flexibility and range.

“Manual is a little bit harder, a little bit more complicated, because you are doing quite a few different things all at the same time. But it is very rewarding coming in, not being able to do it at all, and then being able to get on the road and do it.”

Citing that instructors not only give him training, but confidence to pass the end of course tests for Wor-Wic and MVA. Waters saying its the best feeling in the world.

“It makes us all feel good, all the instructors, we feel like we did something positive for all the students who end changing their lives for something better.”