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Eddie Stobart Training Academy
Eddie Stobart is the iconic name behind a huge road haulage fleet in Europe consisting of over 2,250 tractor units.
- 150 new young apprentices to join Eddie Stobart Training Academy this year
- Over 300 new drivers already employed following completion of training courses
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Mike Penning MP, today officially opened a brand-new state-of-the-art Eddie Stobart Training Academy in Widnes. Together with Stobart Group Chief Operating Officer, William Stobart, he also announced an innovative new Logistics Apprenticeship Programme, which will see 150 young apprentices join the Eddie Stobart team annually.
William Stobart said: “The importance of properly trained and highly-motivated employees cannot be underestimated – the academy will help us maintain and develop the high standards synonymous with Eddie Stobart. The new apprenticeship scheme demonstrates our commitment to the future of this industry, and will develop managers and leaders of the future.”
Operational since March, the Academy provides specialist instruction for Stobart employees across all functions of the business. Its primary role is the instruction and standards training of drivers, both veterans and new starters, and importantly, youngsters joining the apprenticeship program. Awaiting the many 18-year olds coming through the Academy is an intensive six-month Logistics Apprenticeship, during which they will spend a minimum six-weeks alongside experienced drivers gaining invaluable on-the-road experience. Only then, upon successful completion of the programme, will they be brought into the business and introduced to life as an Eddie Stobart driver.
Marines get motorcycle safety training at million-dollar training center in Belle Chasse
Responding to a spike of motorcycle mishaps among adrenaline-driven Marines returning home from war in recent years, Marine Forces Reserve has created a $1 million training facility at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, where the leathernecks from across the United States and all military personnel stationed here can take mandatory riding classes.
Save one life, and it pays for itself,” Jeffrey Peters, safety director for Marine Forces Reserve, said of the center he helped create. “That’s my philosophy.”
Robert Braithwaite, a retired Marine colonel who now is Marine Forces Reserve’s executive director, said motorcycle safety has long been a hot-button issue in the armed services. “The first Marine I lost as a lieutenant was a young Marine on a motorcycle,” Braithwaite said.