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LFCC’s Commercial Driver Services classes gearing up to get back on road
On Friday, May 15, Royal Examiner visited the Lord Fairfax Community College Commercial Driver Services (CDS) Training Center across Kendrick Lane from the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Headquarters.
From left, the EDA’s Doug Parsons and LFCC’s Jeanian Clark and Brittany Herrera do a little truck-side marquee advertising. Royal Examiner Photos/Roger Bianchini – Royal Examiner Video/Mark Williams
Present with Royal Examiner’s Roger Bianchini and Mark Williams were LFCC Vice President Jeanian Clark, CDS Manager Brittany Herrera, Lead Instructor Molly Coleman, Instructor Joe Wood, and EDA Executive Director Doug Parsons.
The topic through a wind-blown site interview on a balmy Spring morning was the advent and nature of the commercial tractor-trailer driving school partnership between LFCC and the EDA – a successful carryover from the previous administration – its scope and tremendous success rate placing graduates into the workforce at an average starting salary of around $48,000.
Above, Parsons chats with CDS instructors Molly Coleman and Joe Wood, right, as Brittany Herrera listens. Below – Yea, I’m pretty sure I can get the hang of that 18-wheeler double-clutching somewhere within the length of the LFCC Commercial Driving Services training lot.
So, pull over – and let’s get ready to navigate the CDS course in the former Avtex Kendrick Lane parking lot in this Royal Examiner video interview.
“10-4 that, good buddy.” – We’ll be back for that first 18-wheeler driving lesson when the CDS school reopens within the COVID-19 pandemic emergency response guidelines.
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