Transportation Safety Solutions: Consulting & Training

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Better Rest for drivers while working with FMCSA, great job; hopeful there will be further negotiated exemptions to regulation, supporting highway safety.

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ELDTAC, thank you for a good start! Training, based on Hours or Performance? My opinion, you need both. It is performance based, you must have well defined objectives and outcomes. Throughout all the seminars, training webinars, and conferences, I am told a good training program is 90% documentation. What you document is objectives and outcomes, as well as the time element. Time is quantifiable where learning is a bit harder to nail down. Janet Zadina, a leading Educati...onal Neuroscientist, states, "How long does it take for the brain to learn? It takes as long as it takes." It is not an answer I wanted to hear, but that is the fact of the matter. Educational research has also established the concept of a learning bell curve, there is much debate about the learning bell curve concept. But, what I pull from the findings of the learning bell curve is that people learn at different rates, and abilities; even when given a good environment and good teacher. We can estimate time frames from educational research data and this is where my experience has lead me as well, time frames instead of set times. So where does that leave us? To develop a training program, you, as a curriculum designer, must understand the spectrum of human learning; this becomes a daunting task. You must be able to understand and forecast costs on this training, and still meet competency for the new CMV driver. So, you must design a program that documents based on quantifiable measurements whether it be hours, miles, loads, trips and still meet and measure competency for the learner. This is why, in my opinion, we need to identify minimum and maximum limits for the quantifiable measures, one size does not fit all. Learning is very individualized. We still have to manage program cost, and at the same time, work within what educational science has told us about learning. Then we can work to reach our ultimate goal successfully, a new driver that is competent and a program that is cost efficient. The company needs to be able to have an end in sight to manage cost and the student needs to see a goal to work towards. The quantifiable measurements will help manage costs and keep student moral up. If you have well defined objectives and outcomes for the instructors to teach from, then it is easier to place student learning within a measurable time frame. So, again thank you ELDTAC for your work, it is a good start. Hours verses Performance? I say performance and hours based standards are the two sides of the same coin. Somewhere on this coin, we can find a solution. Let's work together and find it.

The next generation: Promoting good driver habits or too reliant on technology?

Both! The driver pushes his/her abilities/skills to the level of over confidence, cockiness, and arrogance. Very unsafe and fortunate the people moved when they did.