Yellow Corporation  announced the opening of its 21st Driving Academy, the company's first in Michigan, to train the next generation of professional semi-truck drivers amid a nationwide driver shortage. Yellow's Driving Academies are comprehensive, tuition-free training programs that provide students with classroom and behind-the-wheel training while preparing them to pursue their commercial driver's license (CDL). After receiving a license, students are offered a driving position with additional on-the-job training at Yellow.

Students will also learn the operations side of the trucking and logistics business while being paid a competitive hourly wage throughout the program. Each of Yellow's Driving Academies is certified as a Department of Labor (DOL) apprenticeship program, which is designed to provide paid on-the-job instruction for workers as they prepare for a career that is in high demand. Click here to learn more about the apprenticeship program.

Yellow was recently named a DOL Apprenticeship Ambassador to help to promote, expand and diversify other skilled apprenticeship programs across the country. In addition to the new Driving Academy in Detroit, other Yellow Driving Academies are located in Atlanta/Marietta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Fort Worth, TX, Hagerstown, MD,  Indianapolis, Kansas City, Maybrook, NY, Memphis, Nashville, Pico Rivera, CA, Portland, Salt Lake City, South Bend, IN, and Tracy, CA.