NORFOLK – Northeast Community College will offer another intensive six week Professional Truck Driving course beginning in late February.

The course (TRDR 0100/14S and CRN #70194) will be held Monday-Friday, February 24-April 4, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in Room 104 in the Utility Line/Truck Driving building across from Northeast’s main campus in Norfolk.

In this course, students will learn to operate articulated vehicles in a training environment that includes driving on city streets, two-lane, and interstate highways. The program includes 240 contact hours, 44-plus hours of behind the wheel training and 190 hours of classroom, lab, and observation.

Students will go for night drives and long runs. This means being gone for a week, overnights and
14-hour days.

This is a certified course through the Professional Truck Driver Institute. Cost for the course, with Ed Lewis the instructor, is $1,995.

To register, call Northeast Community College at (402) 844-7265.