 Earning Road Scholar and Road Masters Certifications from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is a challenge that takes time and commitment. 33 men from Highway District 12 recently earned one or both credentials as Road Scholars and Road Masters. It takes a couple of years to complete the programs and it's very important that we, I think that we recognize these folks. You have to be a Road Scholar before you can enroll in the Road Masters program. These are training programs that are provided to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet by the Transportation Engineering Center at the University of Kentucky. They are pretty elite certifications for, particularly for maintenance people, zone management and flagging. You have traffic management with signs and signals and markings. You have asphalt paving, best practices, construction of concrete, and then you have other sort of like HR classes, I call them, time management, conflict resolution, communicating as a team, those sorts of skills that everybody needs no matter what their job is. I think a lot of times people don't think about what kind of skills it takes to do snow removal, for example, or to properly pull a ditch line or establish a ditch line on a new project. We don't think it takes a whole lot of training, but it really does. I mean, when you're dealing with environmental issues, you're dealing with hazardous materials sometimes, these people have to know how to do a little bit of everything. Most people have proven that they go beyond, they're not required to take these classes and get these certifications. They've gone beyond what they're required to do in order to increase their education and training and skills. And with this kind of training, which is offered by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet at no cost to the individual who's signed up for the training, you can improve your skills, you can gain the experience you need. There's a future in this sort of work, and it's never going to not be there. So all these people have to work together to keep our roads cleared and to keep them as safe as possible during winter weather.