Chattanooga Tennessee has great news for Truck Drivers in there area. Tri-State Regional Workforce Alliance just had a study on August 22, 2010 that reported there is a shift for the demands of jobs to three fields. Truck Driving is one of them. In fact, the study showed that truck driving jobs and housekeeping of homes and businesses is the “fastest-growing in the region.” The other field was in medical. (The nursing and rest home positions.) Hamilton County showed truck driving jobs as their one biggest occupation. For those out there looking to get into the field CR England offers those without experience truck driving jobs with training at four different locations across the country.
The study cost $300,000 for research in 30 counties and Tri-State Regional Workforce Alliance paid for it.
Numbers show that truck-driving jobs in Chattanooga Tennessee will grow from 17,647 to 18,821 in the next 10 years. The study also showed that many of the new drivers are replacement drivers which are needed for communities to transform with the new economic trends.
The article, Job demands shift in Chattanooga region, on CNBCcom, stated:
“The Chattanooga region, like most of America, has a gap between employers’ needs and workers’ job skills, especially those without some college or technical training.”
“In a knowledge-based economy we have to look at increasing worker skills,” said Stephen Dunn, regional projects manager for the Southeast Tennessee Development District, one of the members of the Tri-State Regional Workforce Alliance. “Career technical centers will be crucial to keep improving the job skills of the work force.”
Chattanooga is probably the beginning of the trends to what the economy will evolve into. The trucking business has definitely been the leading edge of the end of the recession.
http://www.wreg.com/news/sns-ap-tn–jobshift,0,4856377.story
http://www.cnbc.com/id/38807218
