UPS Adds Driver Training Facility in Texas
UPS Inc. announced plans to add a new driver training facility in Texas.
The driver training facility in McKinney, Texas, is designed to teach new drivers about delivery and service methods, using an experimental learning approach that includes simulators, Webcasts, classroom instruction and deliveries in a model version of a small community. The instruction also stresses methods used by UPS elite drivers who have driven 25 years or more without having an avoidable accident.
“UPS Integrad next-generation curriculum teaches drivers time-tested work methods in an experiential learning setting,” Joe Finamore, a UPS vice president, said in a statement. “The skills UPS drivers learn here are reinforced and practiced throughout their careers.”
UPS now has seven of training locations for the Integrad program. The others are in the Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Washington and Portland, Oregon, metropolitan areas.
UPS ranks No. 1 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.
