Vertical Alliance Group's VAGST.com Attracts Several New Clients.Web Site Helps Trucking Companies Implement Safety Awareness and Testing DALLAS -- Vertical Alliance Group's VAGST.com, an online training resource for commercial trucking companies and their drivers, has signed several new subscribers in the first two months since it's May launch. Leading transportation companies such as FFE FFE Fédération Française d'Equitation (French governing body for equestrian sport) FFE Fédération Française des Échecs FFE Food for Education FFE Flat File Extractor FFE Frontier: First Encounters Transportation Services, Associated Carriers, Kennesaw Transportation, Crabbs Transport and Southern Refrigerated re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. Transportation (SRT (1) (Source Routing Transparent) An IEEE-standard that provides bridging between Ethernet and Token Ring networks. Ethernet LANs use transparent bridging, and Token Ring LANs use source route bridging (SRB). ) are among the new clients. The Department of Transportation reports that more than 5,000 fatalities and 91,000 injuries on U.S. highways are caused annually by crashes involving large trucks. VAGST.com provides trucking companies with efficient, customizable training for its drivers, and is accessible from any computer with an Internet connection. David Hedgpeth, vice president of risk management, compliance and safety for Dallas-based FFE Transportation Services, Inc. and all subsidiaries, says his company decided to make the course available for all drivers across all divisions. "We made that decision based on the quality and ease-of-access to the Vertical Alliance course," he said. "It promotes safety awareness throughout our companies and a safer working environment both internally and on our highways. We also like the ability to track driver participation and the interactive nature of the training helps them retain the information." VAGST.com consists of a series of concise, five- to six-minute video modules featuring a professional narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. , a slide presentation that coincides with the video and a follow-up test that provides feedback based on the content. VAGST clients who subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the course receive their own branded sub-domain that can be linked to the company Web site, which makes finding the training center fast and easy. Safety administrators can monitor the viewing and testing history of all drivers, ensuring 100 percent participation in the program. VAGST also offers subscribers weekly performance reports showing all activity for that time frame, which helps assure companies that all their field employees are current on the latest training initiatives. "Transportation companies and truckers alike are benefiting from the convenience of VAGST.com, and we are pleased to welcome the new subscribers," said Jay Wommack, founder, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Vertical Alliance Group, Inc. "VAGST is an affordable tool for trucking companies to follow safety regulations and protect our highways from devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. large truck accidents." VAGST.com is an offshoot of Vertical Alliance Group's flagship Web site, BubbaJunk.com. BubbaJunk.com is a recruiting Web site for transportation companies to advertise openings for trucking jobs. BubbaJunk.com helps trucking companies counter a severe nationwide shortage of 20,000 drivers, a figure that is expected to reach 111,000 drivers by 2014, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the American Trucking Association (ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment ). About Vertical Alliance Group, Inc. Vertical Alliance Group, Inc. is an online publisher that provides direct marketing services - including lead generation for a variety of personal and business services, and targeted recruiting of pre-qualified employees - for clients in 20 niche industry segments. Headquartered in Texarkana, Texas Texarkana, Texas is a municipal designation in Bowie County, Texas, United States which forms the western half of Texarkana. It is separated from Texarkana, Arkansas, by State Line Avenue. with offices in Dallas, Vertical Alliance Group hosts and manages more than 40 Web sites, using response engine marketing to increase its clients' "Basic Unit of Wealth." For more information, visit http://www.verticalag.com/ or http://www.vagst.com/. |
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