Proposed DOT ad campaign to lure more workers to transportation

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{"text":"The focus of the ad campaign is to attract a larger and more diverse workforce to trucking, aviation, and other transportation industries.\n\nA newly introduced bill would attempt to grow the U.S. transportation workforce through an advertising campaign.\n\nThe “Promoting Service in Transportation Act” (H.R. 5118) was introduced on November 15 by Reps. Rick Larsen, Don Young, and Angie Craig.\n\n\nThe bill would attempt to attract workers to transportation careers by allowing the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to “develop a series of broadcast, digital and print media public service announcement campaigns to promote job opportunities and improve diversity in the transportation workforce.”\n\n1. Promote career opportunities in the transportation sector, including pilots, safety inspectors, mechanics and technicians, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, truck drivers, engineers, transit workers, railroad workers, and other transportation professionals.\n\n2. Increase diversity, including race, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, of professionals in the transportation sector.\n\nLawmakers say that many sectors in transportation including trucking need more workers to stay competitive.\n\n\nSource: CDLlife","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[{\"description\":\"\",\"height\":497.0,\"name\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"width\":696.0}]","canComment":true}