Waste-disposal firm joins effort to recruit, train more truck drivers

With the nation’s supply-chain woes exacerbated by a previously existing shortage of commercial truck drivers, companies such as Winter Haven-based FleetForce Truck Driving School and now Waste Pro USA Inc. have driven forward with creative solutions.

Headquartered in Longwood, a Central Florida city north of Orlando, Waste Pro operates throughout Florida and 10 other states, serving more than two million residential and 100,000 commercial customers. To bolster its ranks of drivers and add more truckers, in general, to the workforce, it created a program that provides one-on-one commercial driver’s license training to any employee.