A federal grant will aid Utah Valley Community College in its new program to help truck drivers improve their reading and writing skills.
The college recently received $218,000 in federal grants to aid its Commercial Driving License/Literacy program, which will coordinate literacy training for drivers throughout the state, utilizing the local adult literacy programs already in place in each Utah district.Program director Gary Phelps said UVCC's role is mostly one of recruiting literacy-deficient drivers for the already functioning literacy programs and to help commercial truck drivers pass the knowledge portion of the Commercial Driving License test.
"We hope to build on the Mountainland Applied Technology Center's commercial driving program to identify literacy-deficient drivers and hook them up with their local adult literacy programs," Gary Phelps said.
For more information on the program, contact Phelps at 228-8000, ext. 528.