About the Truck Simulator: INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION

Benefits

Why you need to use the simulator

The Opportunity

Benefits
Low profit margins, skills shortages, rising costs and increasingly demanding business practices or legislation all create significant problems for companies active in the logistics and haulage sectors. Simulator training provides a major opportunity to eliminate avoidable costs and ensure improved driver performance. It creates possibilities to educate drivers in areas as diverse as fuel efficiency or defensive driving. Most importantly, it creates the possibility to create broader driver development programmes, which is a key to improved driver recruitment and retention. It also creates possibilities for more innovative approaches to hire the best drivers via a more comprehensive assessment process.

The value of simulator training to your business:
Improved use of training time
Greater training flexibility with a potential for 24/7 operation
No physical accidents and damage to road users or property while training
Contribution to improvements in productivity, minimising machine maintenance costs and reducing
insurance premiums
Minimal operational disruption with no vehicle downtime
Cost effective development of new approaches to business practice
New opportunities to validate and introduce new equipment
Recruitment assessment programmes to ensure that only the most suitable drivers are offered
employment
Identify weaknesses in driver performance and provides a comprehensive tool to address them
Adherence to forthcoming EC training directives