This award provided funding to Surry Community College (SCC) to expand its truck driver training program in response to the trucking industry’s movement toward automatic trucks. SCC operated its truck driver training program in collaboration with Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute’s instructors, but SCC was required to provide its own trucks. This proposed project added automatic transmission range trucks to the college’s inventory, which also included two automatic transmission road trucks purchased with an NC Economic Impact grant. The additional capacity resulting from the new range and road trucks also supported SCC’s partnership with Forsyth Technical Community College (FTCC) by allowing SCC to provide weekend classes for students who were pursuing a Class A CDL as part of FTCC’s Electrical Lineman program. SCC expected to expand capacity from 140 to 200 students annually and to provide increased skills on driving automatic trucks. Golden LEAF funds were used to purchase two range trucks and trailers.