Kentucky Legislation Goals to Entice Nonresident Truck Drivers
One invoice will make it simpler for the state to draw extra truck drivers. (kali9/Getty Pictures)
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Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear has signed a bundle of 5 workforce growth payments, together with laws to entice out-of-state truckers to maneuver there.
Among the many payments enacted lately have been laws to help truck drivers, well being care staff, army households, faculty workers and college students.
“For the primary time in my lifetime, a few of the greatest, most superior corporations on the planet are selecting us for the most important investments they’ve ever made. Our small companies are additionally thriving and rising,” Beshear remarked, including that he’s enacting the legal guidelines to bolster workforce growth and the state’s economic system.
Beshear signed Home Invoice 320 (an act regarding business driver licenses) to make it simpler for the state to draw extra truck drivers by permitting a business driver license applicant who has a nonresident operator’s license and a business driver instruction allow to take the CDL expertise check in Kentucky.
He stated the CDL laws “exhibits we’re desirous about attracting extra of those jobs to Kentucky and supporting the trucking business.”
The brand new regulation additionally establishes a nonresident CDL testing payment of $150 and mandates that candidates should be in compliance with all needed federal necessities.
The CDL invoice, sponsored by state Rep. Chris Freeland (R), attracted robust help within the present common session of the Kentucky Common Meeting. It handed unanimously (97-0) within the Home on March 9 and went unopposed (37-0) on March 16 in Senate earlier than being signed by the governor March 22.
Kentucky employed 28,260 heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, based on Could 2021 U.S. Census statistics, and ranked within the second-highest nationwide tier (25,740 to 44,800) for truck drivers in that class. The highest-level states have between 45,780 and 202,270 drivers within the classification.
Figures indicated the state with highest employment in heavy and tractor trailer truck drivers was Texas (202,270) adopted by California (179,450), Florida (88,980), Pennsylvania (87,390) and Ohio (86,200).
