In a recent 90-day period, Lord Fairfax Community College had more than 1,000 job openings posted by area companies for truck drivers and heavy equipment operators.
The college is fast-tracking work force programs to arm graduates with driving skills and experience gleaned partly from operating triple-screened $50,000 Vortex video simulators.
Lizzy Pennebecker, of Gainesville, is taking the college’s one-month long, 160-hour simulator, classroom and behind-the-wheel truck driving training course to earn her commercial driver’s license.
She is one of eight students at the LFCC Middletown campus’s Corron Community Development Center using a newly acquired trucking-driving simulator as part of the curriculum.
