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The Success Xpress is a mobile training facility built into a 53-foot truck trailer that provides working coal miners access to high-quality training in key coal mining skills using the industry’s most advanced technology. The Success Xpress is owned and operated by EKCEP.


The Success Xpress' mobile classroom includes wireless connectivity technology that provides internet access at eight onboard computer workstations.


The Success Xpress' hands-on lab area contains a Joy, Inc. electrical training panel that features circuits and other equipment exactly like those used by mine electricians at actual coal mines.


Ruby Maggard (in foreground), an instructor with Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, shows miners at Sapphire Coal in Letcher County how to operate the Success Xpress' continuous mining machine simulator.



David Ruth (right), EKCEP's Coal Mining Services coordinator, checks the hand-held Joy, Inc. control panel that operates the Success Xpress' computerized continuous mining machine simulator. Ruby Maggard, an instructor with Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, looks on.



Governor Ernie Fletcher (second from left) joined EKCEP Executive Director Mable Duke (far left), Kentucky Education Secretary Laura E. Owens (third from left) and Beth Smith, commissioner of the Department for Workforce Investment (far right), for a photo immediately after touring EKCEP's new Success Xpress mobile training unit on Dec. 14 in Hazard.



Governor Ernie Fletcher watched himself on the LCD Smart Board screen at the front of the Success Xpress' classroom. Shannon Carter, systems architect for the Center for Rural Development (in foreground), demonstrated the equipment.



EKCEP Executive Director Mable Duke (center) gestures toward the Success Xpress' electrical training panel as Governor Ernie Fletcher (far right) and Education Secretary Laura E. Owens (second from right) look on. Paul Pratt, dean of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College's Office of Community Workforce and Economic Development, (far left) explained the equipment to Fletcher and Owens.



Dennis Mayo (in background) and Shannon Carter prepare to demonstrate the virtual-reality headset and hand-held control panel miners use to train to operate a continuous mining machine with the Success Xpress' state-of-the-art 5DT mining simulation software. Mayo is interim director fo the Coal Careers Program at the Hager Hill Campus of Big Sandy Community and Technical College, and Carter is systems architect at the Center for Rural Development.

Schedule of Upcoming Events


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To read comments from people who have used the Success Xpress, click here.

To see past engagements of the Success Xpress, click here.

To read about Success Xpress' role in EKCEP's national award-winning Coal Services Program, click here. To download and view the U.S. Department of Labor's QuickTime video on EKCEP's Coal Services Program—featuring the Success Xpress—right click this link, and select "Save Target As." To download a free version of QuickTime in order to view the video, click here.

 

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Check back often for updates to the Success Xpress' schedule as it remains on tour, on time, and on target with needed training for eastern Kentucky's coal industry.

For additional information on booking the Success Xpress for a visit to a mining operation, high school, vocational and technical school, or any other location, contact Crawford Blakeman at 606-436-5751.


 

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