Teen Truckers Soon to Get Interstate Nod to Help Supply Chain

Teenage truck drivers will soon be allowed to drive across state lines under a pilot program the Transportation Department is advancing.

Recently enacted infrastructure law included apprenticeships that will let people as young as 18 drive trucks interstate, an idea pitched as a way to help alleviate nationwide delays in the supply chain of goods. One trade group, the American Trucking Associations, has estimated that the industry is short 80,000 drivers.

Teen Truck Drivers Are Here, Easing U.S. Shortage and Stoking Concern

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration revealed details of the pilot apprenticeship program in an information collection request ...