Mayor Eric Adams was at the Ferrari Driving School training center in Astoria on Aug. 27 to announce the expansion of a program that provides job training and counseling to formerly incarcerated individuals as they reenter society.

The Commercial Driver’s License training program, which launched as a pilot initiative earlier this year, will expand to include 300 more New Yorkers with pathways to new careers in the high-demand trucking industry, where starting salaries range from $78,000 to $124,000, for a population that typically faces 60% unemployment post-incarceration.

“One mistake should not destroy a person’s life because a bend in the road should not be the end of the road,” Adams said. “Today, we are driving second chances in New York City by expanding our Commercial Driver’s Lic

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