Best Practices for Training New Truck Drivers

Episode 51: Best Practices for Training New Truck Drivers, with Jane Jazrawy

Jane Jazrawy is the CEO of CarriersEdge, a provider of online driver training for the trucking industry. CarriersEdge makes it easier for new recruits in the trucking industry to learn about safety, compliance, reporting, and trucking management at a distance. She will be talking about training in the trucking industry and how adult learning can have an impact on more traditional jobs – even in ways that you may not expect.

“You’re never really going to learn how to secure cargo or whatever – whatever thing you have to do with the truck – unless people actually get to go and practice it.”

– Jane Jazrawy

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

The difficulties that the trucking industry currently has with training new workers
How the different learning styles – auditory, tactile, and visual – can impact how students (including adult students) learn and what difficulties they may experience
How traditional teaching methods can struggle to effectively help new recruits really learn the important skills that they need
Specific, innovative ways that you can put tactile or kinesthetic learning into an online platform
How online education should be backed up by practical demonstrations, especially in an industry like trucking where hands-on activities are so important
Why training is such an important part of the recruitment process and for how employees relate to their new company for the rest of their time there
Examples of hands-on tutorials that are particularly beneficial to new truckers who need to practice specific skills and understand the areas where they need help
Why starting off with basic definitions can actually be an ineffective practice that confuses recruits who need to understand how things work within a system
Why training must always take into account how recruits are often afraid to admit they don’t understand something, especially in a group setting
The state of test questions in training, their limitations, and how their format can help enable better learning
How a learning management system can offer materials in a variety of languages with useful automatic scheduling that ensures truckers are getting the education they need