Category: Training

Maine Trucking Industry Launches Go. Your Way Campaign to Address Workforce Challenges

Maine Trucking Industry Launches Go. Your Way Campaign to Address Workforce Challenges

| May 19, 2021

Encouraging Younger Generations to Join a Vital Industry and Live Life on Their Own Terms The Maine Motor Transport Association (MMTA) announced today the launch of its workforce development initiative aimed at recruiting more Mainers to work in the state’s trucking industry. Currently, the industry anticipates it will need to fill thousands of driver positions, technician jobs, and other supporting roles in the […]

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Geotab and Together for Safer Roads join forces to raise awareness around safer driving habits

Geotab and Together for Safer Roads join forces to raise awareness around safer driving habits

| May 12, 2021

Challenge drivers around the globe to help support safer communities by slowing down, leaving room and keeping vehicles in good working condition Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, and Together for Safer Roads (TSR), a corporate social accelerator, today announced that the organizations have joined forces to issue a road safety challenge to […]

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Universal Technical Institute Selects Miami Metropolitan Area As The Location For The Second New Campus It Plans To Open In 2022

Universal Technical Institute Selects Miami Metropolitan Area As The Location For The Second New Campus It Plans To Open In 2022

| April 29, 2021

UTI’s Miami metropolitan area campus will serve strong demand from students and employers in the region Universal Technical Institute Inc. (NYSE: UTI), the nation’s leading provider of transportation technician training, plans to expand its Florida footprint in 2022 with a new campus in the Miami metropolitan area. It will be UTI’s 14th campus nationwide and second in Florida. UTI began […]

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Mack Trucks to Open New Electric Vehicle Training Hub to Support Mack® LR Electric, Western U.S. and Canada

Mack Trucks to Open New Electric Vehicle Training Hub to Support Mack® LR Electric, Western U.S. and Canada

| April 21, 2021

Academy will teach comprehensive electromobility courses for dealer personnel, Mack employees, owner-operators and fleet customers, and will also offer training for diesel technicians, sales and aftermarket personnel In an effort to support customers in the western U.S. and Canada, as well as Mack’s battery-electric vehicle (BEV) training efforts for the Mack® LR Electric, Mack Trucks […]

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TMC Releases Augmented Reality Game to Attract New Technicians

TMC Releases Augmented Reality Game to Attract New Technicians

| April 20, 2021

Nationwide Release of New Game App Aims to Appeal to Students The American Trucking Associations ‘Technology & Maintenance Council’s announced the release of a new augmented reality game app aimed at attracting, fostering and welcoming a new generation of skilled technicians to the industry. Based on TMC’s National Technician Skills Competition, the app — called […]

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Breakthrough in Neurocognitive Training Creates New Opportunity to Reduce Distracted Driving Crashes, Injuries and Death

Breakthrough in Neurocognitive Training Creates New Opportunity to Reduce Distracted Driving Crashes, Injuries and Death

| April 19, 2021

Driver safety advocates are welcome to use these free resources to better understand why we choose to engage in distracted driving behavior and to discover solutions to reduce the frequency of distracted driving ADEPT Driver  released a new concept paper, Solutions To Reduce Distracted Driving And Technology-Induced Inattention, and an engaging video on the human factors and brain […]

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