subject: Do Drivers Participate In A Mandatory Dot Regular Driver Safety Program? You Bet, And We Are Proud [print this page] DOT means the Department of Transportation, and those good people are working with your NJ courier services to create the best drivers for your delivery needs. To us, the DOT means nothing more or less than good business sense.
All of our drivers are indeed mandated to take the DOT regular driver safety programs, and for excellent reasons that go beyond just good driving. We believe a good driver is a sane, sensible and safe one, and sensible safety is the number one priority we look for in a delivery driver. That is the best kind of business sense also, to take an asset like our excellent delivery drivers and make them even better.
The mandated safety program, after all, is one of a dozen different trainings that our drivers complete before they even get behind the wheel of one of our delivery vans. And it does not stop there. No education really stops with the first training.
Any teacher will tell you this; pupils keep learning all the time. Our drivers are no different, because we have different classes and different classifications for our driving staff. Any driver operating one of our vans who has the ambition (the drive, you might say) to operate a vehicle that moves heavy machinery and freight has to take a classification test. Those are also available from the DOT; in fact, that excellent federal organization pretty much has any driver covered as far as classification exams.
What about the mandatory test? It covers the basic rules of the road, naturally, but we extend our driver training far beyond that, and literally exhaust our trainees with testing hands-on simulated situations. We exhaust them, by the way, to see how well they perform after many hours on the job; that is a part of everyday work for a NJ courier services professional.
Once they have passed the mandatory DOT regular driver safety program (no one remains on staff who does not), our drivers are then trained not only in driving situations but in vehicular maintenance (they better be able to swiftly change a tire out there en route). In addition, they are trained on our delivery routes throughout the entire New Jersey area, experiencing, in their education, every possible road, weather and driving condition they could run into (we hope, not literally).
What is it all for? To create a driver we are proud of, and that you can trust with your deliveries. Now, that kind of training is really good business sense.
