Nearly 4,000 transitioning service members have trained and successfully graduated with their commercial driver’s license (CDL) since Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services began participating in on-installation training of military service members in 2012.
The collaboration, in conjunction with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, its Teamsters Military Assistance Program, and ABF Freight, boasts a retention rate of 92 percent and an employment success rate of 98 percent.
Most recently, Dixon Center’s Sam Whitehurst and Liz Belcaster met with the Marine & Family Programs Division at Camp Pendleton in San Diego to discuss expanding on-installation training to the Marine Corps. Camp Pendleton is proud of its strong career education programs for transitioning Marines, and this program complements the existing training line-up well.
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Brigadier General Kevin Killea (left), then Commanding General, Marine Corps Installation-West, welcomed our team, Duncan Milne and Liz Belcaster, along with our partner Dan Griesse, Director of Human Resources, ABF Freight, last year. The visit was designed to replicate the successful TMAP program aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA.
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Ensuring that veterans and their families succeed in the communities where they live means more than just finding a job. It means finding a career that provides meaningful wages with benefits that allows veterans to plan and invest in their future and their families’ future.
Former Army Specialist and current ABF employee Frederick Curtis, a driver out of ABF’s Chester, Pennsylvania service center, sums it up best: “[This program] has made my decision to get out an easy one. I started about two weeks after leaving the military, and right off the bat I was making more money. I had a mentor who helped further train me and helped me get settled in the area of my new service center. It was so much easier than I thought getting out was going to be. It was the best decision I could have made.”
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For more information on Dixon Center’s efforts in workforce development and career placement, please contact Sam Whitehurst: swhitehurst@dixoncenter.org.
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