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HOS training module

Oct. 29, 2003

Washington-based Instructional Technologies, Inc. (ITI), which offers the TREAD-1 computer-based, driver-training system, is releasing two new training modules: H.O.S. Regulations and Log Book Maintenance. “The H.O.S. lesson will be installed on our iMac computers at existing clients’ training sites around the first of November," noted E. Bruce Weiss, ITI executive vp. "New clients will get their

Wendy Leavitt

“The H.O.S. lesson will be installed on our iMac computers at existing clients’ training sites around the first of November," noted E. Bruce Weiss, ITI executive vp. "New clients will get their free iMac computer(s) with the H.O.S. lesson already included with the 31 other driver-training lessons, beginning on approximately November 7. By the first week of December, all TREAD-1 iMac systems will also be augmented with the new Log Book module."

“We designed the modules so that if FMCSA makes further amendments, we can update all of our clients’ lessons within one to two weeks," said CEO Jim Voorhees, who worked both with FMCSA and with training directors of several TREAD-1 clients.

According to Weiss, each interactive TREAD-1 lesson runs approximately 40 minutes, including the HOS and Log Book modules. The new modules are designed to train drivers on all the new HOS rules. They provide practical exercises in which drivers apply the new rules by filling out a log book based upon hypothetical situations.

About the Author

Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.