Description
Not all fleet drivers are well-trained. About 15.5 million non-CDL drivers who are required to drive for work (but may not consider themselves fleet or professional drivers) may lack formal training. Any employee who drives for work should be considered a fleet driver. Delivery truck drivers and sales employees have the highest rate of injuries and fatalities of all occupations.
To address this alarming training gap, NSC developed Fleet Essentials, a new series of short online courses you can use as a package or individually to educate drivers and ensure they make it home safely to loved ones each day.
NSC Fleet Essentials is the only fleet driver training program with vehicle-specific course content. This vehicle specific training focuses on medium-duty trucks which include all variations of pickup trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 and 26,000 pounds. Although some of these trucks may look like regular pickup trucks, they come in various customized configurations to meet the specific requirements of the job. They all are much heavier, longer, and taller than passenger vehicles. The differences in height, length, size, design, configuration, and dynamics also affects how you drive and what you will do to prevent crashes and collisions. This means driving them requires special skills and training.
