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Tag: mentoring

Overdrive Extra
Mentoring is a two-way street when it comes to benefits
“Trucking broadly speaking has seemed to support the idea of apprenticeship and mentoring as a way to improve safety and retention, but I believe the only truly effective way to do that is through experienced owner-operators dedicating themselves to one-on-one mentorship.” Benefits “run both ways.” –Owner-op Gary Buchs on his ow experience with it
February 5, 2019
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Music, new advocacy project from independent Howard Salmon
The owner-operator/songwriter hear tells the story of his “Who Would They Look Up To?” track, newly being offered as a free download to encourage parents and truckers around the nation to hew to its message, and more.
March 13, 2015
Howard Salmon with guitar in-cab
Channel 19
The yardstick method of driver training
Jimmy Ardis tells the funny story of how he learned to drive — his uncle rapping his knuckles with a yardstick from the sleeper whenever he jammed a gear too quickly — toward a serious focus on the need to more robust mentoring industrywide.
March 1, 2014
Owner-operator Jimmy Ardis is based in Sumter, S.C.
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