The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers
Oct 23, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
 **How to Fund Your New Career in…
Bruce OutridgeHostLeonard HackPanelistBrock ErlingPanelistAlvin SmithPanelist
If funding was easier to get, would that improve road safety, do you think? Would that help the training program? We don't know, but we're about to find out for sure.

Hey, we're going to be talking, giving you a glimpse of a panel that happened at PTAC about funding for future driver training.

Either people are trying to get in for free through unemployment or something, which doesn't always give you the best driver.

The real good drivers who actually want to be part of this industry sometimes can't find the money to be part of it.

And then others have the money, but they're trying to find the cheapest course because they've got to live while they do this.

It's been talked about a long time over the years that I've been a part of this.

But PTAC, at their recent conference in Saskatoon, had a whole panel about this, and we're going to be playing a clip from that for you so you can see what they're talking about as far as funding and how that's going to help that panel.

If funding was easier to get, would that improve road safety, do you think? Would that help the training program? We don't know, but we're about to find out for sure.

Hey, we're going to be talking, giving you a glimpse of a panel that happened at PTAC about funding for future driver training.

Either people are trying to get in for free through unemployment or something, which doesn't always give you the best driver.

The real good drivers who actually want to be part of this industry sometimes can't find the money to be part of it.

And then others have the money, but they're trying to find the cheapest course because they've got to live while they do this.

It's been talked about a long time over the years that I've been a part of this.

But PTAC, at their recent conference in Saskatoon, had a whole panel about this, and we're going to be playing a clip from that for you so you can see what they're talking about as far as funding and how that's going to help that panel.
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