NCHS CDL program preps students for trucking

LUSK - Over 2.9 million semi-trucks form the vertebral column of the United States’ supply chain, transporting more than 70-percent of the total domestic freight tonnage. Soon, Charlie Gaukel, Wyatt Straugh, Isaac Assman, and Clay Willey will be joining these big rigs on the American roads. Thanks to an inaugural commercial driver’s license (CDL) program at Niobrara County High School (NCHS), the aforementioned youths will be emerging from their classrooms with time behind the wheel and a marketable skill. The program owes its existence to a partnership between NCHS and Eastern Wyoming College (ECW) in Torrington. In fact, ECW even donated a big rig of their own for NCHS students to train with.