This grant provided funding to Sampson Community College (SCC) to construct a paved driving range near its main campus for its existing truck driving program. The Sampson Community College Truck Driver Training program, started in 2007 with help from Golden LEAF, formerly used a private business’ parking lot in Duplin County for training. The college was able to move the training site to Sampson County to save the cost of repairing property they do not own. SCC instructors are able to train additional students on a larger training site. Most years, SCC has a waiting list of over 200 people who want to enroll in the truck driving program. The Clinton Committee of 100 donated property for the site, and the SCC Construction and Building Trades program built the classroom. The college used NC Connect Bond funds to pay for the majority of the project ($1,300,000).
