Grant helps Watkins and Shepard of Missoula train more truckers. Company cuts the usual $4,000 tuition to $1,000.
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As a shortage of truck drivers looms nationwide, Watkins and Shepard Trucking http://www.wksh.com/ will use a $315,000 state grant to offer reduced tuition at its truck-driving school.
The award from the Montana Department of Commerce will allow the Missoula-based company to train and employ 63 newly created truck-driving positions. It enables Watkins and Shepard to remove one of the significant barriers to people wanting to come into the industry — training costs, said Ray Kuntz, chief executive officer of Watkins and Shepard.
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