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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS WORLDWIDE
* South Africa - Driver Training from Mercedes-Benz SA
Johannesburg,SA -Business Day/AllAfrica.com (Washington,DC,USA) -13 March 2008: -- Achieving optimum returns on investment by reducing fuel consumption, accidents and downtime are not new concepts to the road transport industry, but the commercial vehicle division of Mercedes-Benz SA is taking them to new heights with its hands-on, sector-driven, driver training programme... Brian Kerr, principal driver trainer -- commercial vehicles, Mercedes-Benz SA (MBSA) said driver training is integral to the toolbox of services provided by the company. MBSA, he explained, had adopted a sector-driven approach to driver training as long ago as 2001 . This means that all driver-training programmes are user specific. For example, if the client is involved in transporting abnormal loads, training modules are designed around this. The same applies for tippers, tankers, on highway long-haul operations, forestry, construction and other segments... "The results of our training courses are not only a better standard of driver behind the wheel," said Kerr, "but they provide the operators an ideal opportunity to obtain improved financial benefits from their vehicle fleets and in so doing enhance the business"...
* Sweden - Volvo Trucks rewarded for diversity initiatives
Gothenburg,Sweden -Easier (press release - Chester,UK) -13 March 2008: -- Yesterday, Anders Olausson factory manager at Volvo Trucks, received the ‘Competence Award for Diversity Initiatives’ for his work on increasing the proportion of women in Volvo’s Tuve assembly plant in Gothenburg, Sweden... The Tuve factory assembles the company’s heaviest and most complex trucks, and since its inception in 1982 has been strongly male-dominated. It has 2,500 employees, including just over 400 women, encompassing around 40 nationalities... More women: Anders Olausson, who sees considerable advantages in having a workplace with greater diversity, has worked consistently to increase the proportion of female employees. He represents a strong determination to see more women in managerial positions, as well as more female assembly workers. The aim is that one out of every three new recruits should be female; an aim that has increased the proportion of women by 70 per cent – from 237 to 407 – in just two years...Labels: truckmakers news worldwide
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