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Tlingit & Haida: Generations Southeast CDL Simulator

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Generations Southeast brings CDL simulator training to Juneau, Prince of Wales

Generations Southeast installed virtual driving simulators in Juneau and Klawock so residents can train for commercial driver licenses without leaving Southeast Alaska.

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Speaker B

So right now she's driving a simulation on the highway in wintertime, so it can be slippery a little bit, so she has to go slow. Klinkenheider, through our Generation Southeast campuses in Juneau and Prince of Wales, we just invested in these virtual simulators so that we can provide training for CDLs, trucks, from small trucks, school bus, everything. So this is really going to streamline and make it possible to deliver more opportunity to more citizens. Going from day to night, heavy rain, ice, snow, off-road, all the conditions driving in a metropolitan area. And, you know, you get on there and it rumbles, it shakes, it gives you that kind of experience, even like what it would be like to get a flat tire.

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Speaker B

I think this is gonna be a game changer for Hw'ik'itnaaydaa and for Southeast Alaska and Generation Southeast. You shouldn't have to leave home to go get this training.

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