A big piece is certainly COVID-19. Training centers are mostly shut down for public safety. I don't think that's the whole reason, though. Were companies tru

A big piece is certainly COVID-19. Training centers are mostly shut down for public safety. I don't think that's the whole reason, though. Were companies truly that desperate, they'd find a way. Many training classes this year have moved to part-online, part-in-person, for example, which helps with COVID safety, convenience, and cost. But demand is way down. Ultimately, I think it simply boils down to money. We've gone through the better part of a year where most big projects were shut down, and if they were lucky, restarted months later, slowly, with restrictions. When you put a damper on every part of the economy (except Netflix and Purell), everything suffers. As a wealthy friend of mine once said: it's all about cash flow. Reduced demand, few open training centers, DOH class size limits, limited spare cash from unemployed workers for class/book/cert fees, trainers who live elsewhere and might not want to get on a plane, etc. It's like hitting the breaker in Jurassic Park. You don't just flip it back on and get all the lights at once. (I'm not saying we shouldn't have hit the pause button. Public health is critically important. I'm just saying it should be no surprise that labor and training got hit badly by it.) It's hard to imagine a situation where it would not be worthwhile to have a trainer spend 8 hours teaching and certifying one new driver, if any real demand existed. Guess how much a good trainer costs for a day -- a single pallet often holds material with greater dollar value than that.