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Xcelente Trucking & Logistics Training Center

FMCSA-approved CDL training — Minority Woman-Owned, building trucking careers for justice-impacted youth, women, and second-chance workers.

Xcelente Trucking is an FMCSA-approved Commercial Driver License training course provider creating a movement of highly qualified drivers for the growing transportation industry. Their instructors are expert teachers with real trucking experience, and their supportive learning environment is designed to help students from any background succeed — including justice-impacted youth, formerly incarcerated adults, and the next generation of women drivers.

What XTLTC Does

ELDT Class A & B Training

Full federally-required entry-level driver training — theory, range, and behind-the-wheel — plus Intro to Dispatching for back-office logistics careers.

Justice-Impacted Youth Pathways

Referrals for ages 16-24 and a national & state-recognized Re-Entry CDL Apprenticeship for formerly incarcerated individuals.

FMCSA Safe Driver Apprenticeship (SDAP)

Interstate trucking pathway that puts drivers ages 18-20 on the road to family-supporting wages.

Vanpool & Business Consulting

A rideshare program that eliminates the #1 barrier to completion — getting to class — plus consulting for owner-operators and minority trucking startups.

Vontyna Durham — CEO & Founder

A Memphis powerhouse leading a movement to put justice-impacted youth, formerly incarcerated adults, and the next generation of women drivers behind the wheel of America's freight economy. Vontyna built Xcelente as a Minority Woman-Owned Business that doesn't just train CDL drivers — it builds careers. Contact: info@xcelente.org · (901) 609-4090 · (901) 844-3652.

A Community Partner of Labor Education

Xcelente is recommended for the District 10 Initiative — direct alignment with youth ages 16-24, pre-apprenticeship pathways, justice-impacted youth referrals, and a vanpool program that solves the transportation barrier students face. Their apprenticeship pathways feed workers into good careers across the Mid-South freight economy.

Connect with Xcelente Trucking & Logistics Training Center

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